Anything Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll

When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think…

— Michel Houellebecq

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of…

— Penelope Lively

The past assumes the nature of the present.

— Oliver Stone

We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.

— Marcel Proust

We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.

— Maria Edgeworth

The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

— A. J. P. Taylor

We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.

— Craig D. Idso

Only in the present do things happen.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

the present is the merest flicker between the long long time past and the things that haven't yet happened but most assuredly will.

— Estela Portillo Trambley

The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being…

— Thomas Hobbes

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

— Gottfried Leibniz