Our Present Quotes

228 quotes by 196 authors

We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure… — Allen West
He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are… — Swami Vivekananda
I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness… — Wendell Berry
We are here among you as seekers of refuge from our present-your future-a time of worldwide famine, exhausted fuel supplies, terminal poverty-the end of the… — Thomas Pynchon
What is important is the moment of opening a life and feeling it touch--with an electric hiss and cry--this speckled mineral sphere, our present world. — Annie Dillard
In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds. — Antonin Artaud
All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us… — Margaret Fuller
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? — Confucius
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach… — Confucius
Often the deep valleys of our PRESENT will be UNDERSTOOD only by LOOKING BACK on them from the mountains of our FUTURE experience. Often we… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition. — William Gibson
I wonder what Proust would have made of our present-day locus of collective fantasy, the Internet. Iâ€™m guessing he would have seized on its wistful… — Jennifer Egan
We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our… — Glen Duncan
But I have had enough melodrama in this life, and would willingly give my five senses if they could ensure us our present peace and… — Daphne du Maurier
We (Muslims) have no right, in our present misery, to boast of past glories. But we must realise that it was the negligence of the… — Muhammad Asad
There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
We preach and practice brotherhood â€” not only of man but of all living beings â€” not on Sundays only but on all the days… — Virchand Gandhi
We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The decisions of our past are the architects of our present. — Dan Brown

Who Wrote These Our Present Quotes

196 authors contributed a total of 228 Our Present Quotes, led by these top contributors: