Present Quotes

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He who travels much has this advantage over others â€“ that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they… — Giacomo Leopardi
And it will always happen that he who is not your friend will request your neutrality and he who is your friend will ask you… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over… — Simone de Beauvoir
We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible. — Simone de Beauvoir
Integration is a word of the past, the word of the future and the word of the present is contribution. — Tariq Ramadan
The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history. — Malcolm X
The generally accepted view is that markets are always right -- that is, market prices tend to discount future developments accurately even when it is… — George Soros
All emerge from that One Whose Being is ever present and Whose Life, robed in numberless forms, is manifest throughout all creation. Creation is the… — Ernest Holmes
Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present. — John C. Maxwell
The only thing we can control is what we do in the present. The more we replay yesterday, the further we get from today's opportunities.… — John C. Maxwell
I'm no longer interested in making political films. There's something old-fashioned about them. Young people now don't care for politics. It isn't present in life… — Bernardo Bertolucci
Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him… — Evelyn Waugh
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present. — James Joyce
The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there… — Epicurus
In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning and comprehensive document,… — Paul Robeson
We must follow the wisdom of the Brundtland Report. We must pursue development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability… — Ban Ki-moon
Those of us who witness the degraded state of the environment and the suffering that comes with it cannot afford to be complacent. We continue… — Wangari Maathai
When you have half of Caironese in slums, when you don't have clean water, when you don't have a sewer system, when you don't have… — Mohamed ElBaradei
There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film… — Akira Kurosawa
I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have. — Fernando Pessoa

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