Present Quotes

The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.

I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.

No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.

There is no one right now in my judgment that can unite the Black electorate in such a way to present our agenda to a nominee to have them forthrightly address our concerns.

Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.

The future is the worst thing about the present.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

Finding the right form of debate regarding Israeli policies will remain a challenge in Germany. Even with every conceivable and warranted criticism, the danger always arises that it will be exploited by those who consciously or unconsciously present anti-Semitism in a new guise.

I can disappear into things very easily. But with acting, you have to be in the moment, and it gives me this incredibly fulfilling emotion: being really present.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

In Sufi terms, there are two very interesting notions of transcendence. One is to gaze out at the universe and to comprehend that what you see out there reflects what you are. The other one is to look inside yourself and recognise that the universe is present there.

Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it's not like cutting a movie and test focus-grouping it and filling out forms.

The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

Make a good use of the present.

Conscience is God present in man.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.

Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home.

I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

It's important for that to exist in a society that doesn't present you with any genuine problems.

The future is purchased by the present.

No, I'm a very normal and orthodox person that goes out of their way to present eccentricity. It's not that I do that so much now but I've been doing it for so many years that it's become routine now.

I live in the present moment.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement.

The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with.

A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.

I don't like to socialise much.

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.

As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.

The future is much like the present, only longer.

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

Goodwill can be indicated in various ways. I raised that particular example because at that time I was in charge. Today, I'm not in a position to present other possibilities.

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

I think that in our part of the world, Scandinavia, we are one of the pioneers of showing that gastronomy can be something - high gastronomy can be something very, very present and doesn't have to involve, you know, what is perceived as the normal luxury items that belong in a high gastronomy restaurant.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

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 danger to humanity.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

We must see our present fight right through to the very end.