Present Quotes
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Be Here Now is all about being present and not fearing what you don't know.
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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Concentrate the mind on the present moment.
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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.
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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.
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A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
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Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.
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The future is no more uncertain than the present.
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Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.
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In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
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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.
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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.
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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
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I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.
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The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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O God-Man present in this sacrament for me - what a comfort, what a privilege to know I kneel before God! And to think that this God loves me!... Mary, my mother, help me to love him in return.
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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.
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As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.
