Present Quotes

6568 Present quotes by 3495 unique authors

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a… — Hart Crane
The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss… — Hart Crane
If I'm having a challenging moment, I jump for joy. Literally. After a minute, I feel better, and after a few minutes, I'm really happy.… — Miranda Kerr
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way.… — Neil Simon
I like real art. It's difficult to define 'real' but it is the best word for describing what I like to get out of art… — Frank Stella
I think that people are constantly thinking about capturing things that they're not actually present for the moment they're trying to capture. I'm quite sure… — Ian MacKaye
I believe in being fully present. That means you should be with the person you’re with. — Morrie Schwartz
My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do… — Ted Koppel
Those who rebelled against totalitarian rule and those who simply managed to remain themselves and think freely, were all persecuted. We should not forget any… — Vaclav Havel
Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. — Margaret Fuller
Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from… — Robert Silverberg
It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social [literary]… — Michael Moorcock
Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at what we see… — Samuel R. Delany
If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method… — Clifford D. Simak
Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder and timeless narrative power, it… — Guy Gavriel Kay
He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they… — Giacomo Leopardi
And it will always happen that he who is not your friend will request your neutrality and he who is your friend will ask you… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over… — Simone de Beauvoir
We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible. — Simone de Beauvoir
Integration is a word of the past, the word of the future and the word of the present is contribution. — Tariq Ramadan
The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history. — Malcolm X
The generally accepted view is that markets are always right -- that is, market prices tend to discount future developments accurately even when it is… — George Soros
All emerge from that One Whose Being is ever present and Whose Life, robed in numberless forms, is manifest throughout all creation. Creation is the… — Ernest Holmes
Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present. — John C. Maxwell
The only thing we can control is what we do in the present. The more we replay yesterday, the further we get from today's opportunities.… — John C. Maxwell

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