Present Quotes

6568 Present quotes by 3495 unique authors

I love to think that the day you're born, you're given the world as a birthday present. — Leo Buscaglia
Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can write better than… — Ngaio Marsh
Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory,… — Eudora Welty
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, [religious] faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude...… — Adolf Hitler
A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they never… — John Steinbeck
It is distrust of God to be troubled about what is to come; impatience against God to be troubled with what is present; and anger… — Simon Patrick
Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour… — John Brown
From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future. — Muhammad Iqbal
I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present… — Jonathan Sacks
If a dish doesn't turn out right, change the name and don't bat an eyelid. A fallen souffle is only a risen omelette. It depends… — Lionel Blue
Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds… — Asa Gray
Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction. — Penelope Lively
Those not present are always wrong. — Philippe Nericault Destouches
The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between… — Eugenio Montale
The new man is born too old to tolerate the new world. The present conditions of life have not yet erased the traces of the… — Eugenio Montale
We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past. — John D. Barrow
Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits. — Thaddeus Golas
What is needed in the present plight of mankind is not more science but a change of heart that shall move mankind to devote to… — Ralph Barton Perry
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions. — Kenneth Lee Pike
I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more. — Little Richard
I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and… — Bryan Adams
Live. And Live Well. BREATHE. Breathe in and Breathe deeply. Be PRESENT. Do not be past. Do not be future. Be now. On a crystal… — Kyle Lake
I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live. — Gerard Depardieu
The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow. — Charles Olson

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