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Present Quotes by E. M. Forster
- Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.
- Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is…
- We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst…
- The present flowed by them like a stream. The tree rustled. It had made music before they were born, and would continue after their deaths,…
- Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our…
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