Present Quotes

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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those… — Mary Astell
I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not… — Margaret Atwood
Confine yourself to the present. — Marcus Aurelius
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against… — Marcus Aurelius
The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's… — Diane Ackerman
What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that… — Sai Baba
A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a… — Ibrahim Babangida
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the… — Irving Babbitt
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. — Roger Babson
Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that… — Michelle Bachelet
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. — Mikhail Bakunin
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that… — James A. Baldwin
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the… — Ansel Adams
Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality… — Alan Ball
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic. — J. G. Ballard
All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside… — John Banville
We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past. — John Banville
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. — Roland Barthes

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