Present One Quotes
24 quotes by 20 authors
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There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love,…
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.
— C.S. Lewis
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Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one…
— Abraham Pais
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Since periods of great change, such as the present one, come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make…
— Dalai Lama
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Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier out of it,…
— John Fowles
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O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity.
— Herbert C. Brown
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I think it’s very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the moment…
— Charlie Haden
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If life were a movie, physical reality would be the entire DVD: Future and past frames exist just as much as the present one.
— Max Tegmark
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I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish…
— C.S. Lewis
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Monstress is an exhilarating rollercoaster of a book. Deeply funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, philosophical, bawdy, and wise, Lysley Tenorio’s stories, written from the underbelly of the…
— Sabina Murray
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Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.
— Eknath Easwaran
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All our language about the future ... is like a set of signposts pointing into a bright mist ... the New Testament image of the…
— N. T. Wright
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The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is a much more…
— John Holdren
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Each moment is magical, precious and complete and will never exist again. We forget that now is the moment we are in, that the next…
— Susan L. Taylor
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A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession of a rich…
— Ernest Renan
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Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the…
— George Orwell
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The dreams of the left are always beautiful - the imagining of a better world, the damnation of the present one. This faith, this luminescent…
— Tony Kushner
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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a…
— Larry Wall
Who Wrote These Present One Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 24 Present One Quotes as follows: