Present Quotes

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Seneca

In this present moment we are either smaller than we once were or else are on our knees.

Alan Moore, Birth Caul

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

Thomas Mann

Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - Act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.

Homer, The Odyssey

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us.

Clive Staples Lewis

Our first responsibility is not to build the Church or even to get souls saved - - It is to represent Christ and to bring His message to the world. As God beholds us in Christ, so the world must behold Christ in us. As Christ represents us before the Father, so we must represent Christ before the world.

Cornelius Stam

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

Charles Baudelaire

I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value,

Walt Whitman

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jesse Louis Jackson

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - Just to save it from drying out completely.

Pam Brown

Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the future.

Unknown

Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.

Henry M. Wriston

It is the contention of this observer that few homicides due to shooting could be avoided merely if a firearm were not immediately present, and that the offender would select some other weapon to achieve the same destructive goal.

Marvin E. Wolfgang

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Antoine Rivarol

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap - On - A - Rope.

Bill Cosby

The future is much like the present, only longer.

Don Quisenberry

One day at a time - This is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.

Ida Scott Taylor.

Equation 1. 2 - 9 is a second order, nonlinear, vector, differential equation which has defied solution in its present form. It is here therefore we depart from the realities of nature to make some simplifying assumptions...

Bate, Mueller & White, 1971, "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics".

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

Denis Diderot

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

Blaise Pascal

Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future.

John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent

Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Margaret Fulle

Past and to come seem best things present worst.

Mary Bertone

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.

Henry David Thoreau

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

Machiavelli, The Prince

Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fourth, Chapter 2

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.

Albert Camus

Forget the past and live the present hour.

Sarah Knowles Bolton

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

Jane Wyman

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

Alfred North Whitehead