Present Quotes

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Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The present is great with the future. — Gottfried Leibniz
How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that… — Charles Caleb Colton
All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise. — Charles Caleb Colton
There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging… — John Kenneth Galbraith
When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as, sometimes, because they… — Joseph Wood Krutch
... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely… — Albert Einstein
Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be… — Benjamin Franklin
We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse… — Benjamin Franklin
The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a… — Abraham Lincoln
Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime. — James Russell Lowell
Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness. — George Orwell
If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it? — Oliver Goldsmith
Some day there is going to be a man sitting in my present chair who has not been raised in the military services and who… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings. — Aesop
The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and… — James A. Baldwin
The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come. — Walter Savage Landor
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries. — Sophocles
The soul, cramped among the petty vexations of Earth, needs to keep its windows constantly open to the invigorating air of large and free ideas:… — Lucy Larcom
Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is… — Desiderius Erasmus
What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our… — Blaise Pascal
We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall… — Blaise Pascal
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of… — Robert Benchley
My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there… — William Godwin
The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is essential in a… — Milan Kundera

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