Present Quotes

• Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Time
  • God
  • Live

• To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Future

• Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Future
  • Past
  • Prejudice

• At the present time man's path lies through space, and Suprematism is a colour metaphor in its infinite abyss. 1916

  

  Kazimir Malevich
  • Time
  • Space
  • Path

• 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 will writhe at your feet.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • World
  • House
  • Alone

• Existence is.. well.. what does it matter? I exist on the best terms I can. The past is now part of my future. The present is well out of hand.

  

  Ian Curtis Joy Division
  • Future
  • Past
  • Hand

• Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • God
  • Proud

• She snorted with a sudden violence which twenty-four hours earlier would have unmanned me completely. Even in my present tolerably robust condition, it affected me like one of those gas explosions which slay six.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Present
  • Violence
  • Condition

• It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence.

  

  Edward Bok
  • Country
  • American
  • Single

• Hospitality is present when something happens for you. It is absent when something happens to you. Those two simple prepositions - for and to - express it all.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Simple
  • Present

• Wipe out the imagination. Stop pulling the strings. Confine thyself to the present. ...Divide and distribute every object into the causal formal and the material. ...Let the wrong which is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Done
  • Stop
  • Imagination

• Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Real
  • Remember
  • History

• A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Home
  • Reality
  • Present

• I can assert that it is this belief in learning from experience, a growth mindset, the power of chance events, and self-reflection that have helped me grow to the present.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Experience
  • Power
  • Learning

• Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted.

  

  Chester W. Nimitz
  • Control
  • Taken
  • Sea

• Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature.

  

  Dmitri Mendeleev
  • Life
  • Live
  • Nature

• Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now. We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.

  

  Pericles
  • May
  • True
  • Age

• When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Writing
  • School
  • Thought

• We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.

  

  P. D. James
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Present

• Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

  

  Les Brown
  • Live
  • May
  • Past

• Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Mind
  • Present
  • Concentrate

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