Present Quotes

6568 Present quotes by 3495 unique authors

The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received… — Robertson Davies
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in… — Cyril Connolly
When two human beings get together, they're co-present, there is built into it a certain responsibility we have for each other, and when people are… — Neil Postman
I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle. — Jane Wagner
Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their… — John Cage
Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things that… — Thomas Merton
There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as… — James Payn
The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present. — Miguel de Unamuno
Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and… — Lord Acton
If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea,… — John Jay Chapman
The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost. — John Jay Chapman
You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through… — Ken Burns
If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever. — Anne Lamott
Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to… — Hannah Arendt
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. — Gregory Bateson
Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years. — Martin Amis
Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak,… — Josiah Royce
Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning. — Josiah Royce
The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This… — Josiah Royce
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present. — Edmond de Goncourt
You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and [the problem's] past history! When you have investigated the problem thoroughly,… — Mao Zedong
There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in… — Ludwig von Mises
Our work is to present things that are as they are. — Frederick The Great
For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one is led to… — Claude Levi-Strauss
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader. — Julian Barnes

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