W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
…the future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
W. Somerset Maugham
Quotes to Explore
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To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.
Babasaheb
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I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.
Earl Weaver
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I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.
Kabir Bedi
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I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.
Felicity Jones
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If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?
Victoria Woodhull
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
Hans Jonas
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Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.
Balthazar Getty
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Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.
B. F. Skinner
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The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.
Patricia Richardson
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. Lewis
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.
Sai Baba
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I am extraordinarily fascinated by the future of technology. We are in the early infancy of technology, and we have an opportunity to guide how technology develops and integrates into our lives. I talk a lot about the 'invisible interface,' or the idea that we can utilize technology without being absorbed into a screen.
Yves Behar
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Have you seen the Broadway version of 'The Lion King?' Go and see it. That's where the future of musical is.
Colm Wilkinson
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There are few secrets in football. So execute.
Hank Stram
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I think I was so successful, not because I was brilliant, but because I was so young. I had no fear of consequences.
Frank Abagnale
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With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.
Jeff Ament
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Even the dullest bird or face becomes interesting when you give it a good look in the wild/flesh. The way the shadow drops across the cheek, the light hits an eyebrow, etc... there are many more angles, positions etc. than you can ever imagine. My heart always makes a little jump when I see things in birds or faces that surprise me.
Siegfried Woldhek
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…the future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
W. Somerset Maugham
