Quotes about Present, page 2

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Quote by Winston Churchill about present

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

Quote by Charles Dickens about present

I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.

Quote by Richard Ernst about present

The present Tibet bridges the dreamlike and the utterly real.

Quote by Richard Gere about present

I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.

Quote by Colin Firth about present

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

Quote by William Godwin about present

The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about present

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

Quote by Henry Ford about present

For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.

Quote by Salma Hayek about present

On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about present

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

Quote by Michael Jackson about present

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure,...

Quote by Samuel Johnson about present

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about present

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it...

Quote by Franz Kafka about present

The longer your campaign goes on, the more ridiculously powerful you'll have to make the villains to present a challenge to your demi-god characters.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about present

You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both, but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.

Quote by William H. O'Connell about present

A base closure is a pretty usable thing, it'll present a long-term opportunity as well as a short-term problem, everybody right now is making plans.

Quote by Frank O'Hara about present

It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.

Quote by Joe Orton about present

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about present

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about present