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Present Quotes by Anton Chekhov
- All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important…
- If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that nothing passes away…
- It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present…
- Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past.
- The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him…
More Present Quotes
- 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.… — 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… — 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… — Marcus Aurelius
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — 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… — Michelle Bachelet
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon