I congratulate myself on not having arrived into this…

We always want to congratulate ourselves at having made more progress than we actually have.

— Nina Jacobson

Now our world is at the present time firmly in the grip of a mechanical monster, whose head - if you want to call…

— Gordon R. Dickson

“What do you say to a warmongering emperor who has conquered many worlds and displaced thousands of refugees from their homes in the process?…

— S.G. Blaise

“I don't think it's right to congratulate someone for having an ugly baby. It will only encourage her to have another one.”

— Philip Siegel

“There is this sense of having left And that sense of having arrived.”

— Ricardo M. de Ungria

“Having arrived at this point of non-action, there is nothing which he does not do.”

— Lao Tzu

We need to never consider ourselves as having 'arrived'; always trying to learn how we can change to be more like Christ

— Dan Schilling

There's something beautiful about working in the one place in the world where the world is present, like United Nations. Otherwise, one would have…

— Samantha Power

There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true…

— Anonymous

There has always been war. War is raging throughout the world at the present moment. And there is little reason to believe that war…

— James Nachtwey

The new man is born too old to tolerate the new world. The present conditions of life have not yet erased the traces of…

— Eugenio Montale

Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?

— James Hilton

But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses

— Muriel Barbery

I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.

— Anne Lamott

“There is no universal clock, but local histories take form beneath our eyes, and begin to regulate themselves, and haltingly are linked to one…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty