Past Present Quotes

102 Past Present quotes by 92 unique authors

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like. — Ben Okri
In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the… — Blaise Pascal
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. — Susan Sontag
Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively… — Philip Zimbardo
In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship… — Isabel Allende
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are… — Anais Nin
Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth.… — H P Lovecraft
Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping. — Don DeLillo
When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning… — Peter Matthiessen
Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener,… — Terry Tempest Williams
Sam,' the girl said. 'Sam.' She was the past present and future. I wanted to answer , but I was broken. — Maggie Stiefvater
Everything I know and I am and I have seen felt done past present past now then before now seen felt done hurt felt focus… — James Frey
All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. — Kurt Vonnegut
as a bird swoops down on it's prey, and assumes this land bound wretch into heaven, so did romeo steal her lips before they fled… — Anne Fortier
But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5 — Brian Greene
I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always… — Kurt Vonnegut
The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist.… — Jeanette Winterson
Time is not outside us, but inside. Only we live with past, present, and future, and the present is too brief to experience anyway; it… — Siri Hustvedt
The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where… — Audrey Niffenegger
Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible. — Jane Austen
Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong,… — Sylvia Plath
...your memories will be muddled and uncataloged - past, present, and imagination all mixed together. The same thing happens in dreams. — Dan Brown

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