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Present Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot…
- And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
- Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.
- We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney,…
- All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
- ...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…
- Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.
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