Present Quotes
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Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.
Art Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel
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Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.
Seneca the Younger
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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.
Samuel George Morton
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America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
Warren G. Harding
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Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
Ulrich Beck
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'Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present...This faculty of understanding the living is, in very truth, the master quality of the historian.'
Marc Bloch
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At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
Piers Anthony
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Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.
Danica McKellar
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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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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
Naomie Harris
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This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.
Origen
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When I feel like work and life are both going well, I feel like I can be fully present at both. I think the reminder to me is that both are super important, and I need to be able to feel like I can experience both in the way that makes me happiest. If I'm not happy in one or the other, it really affects the other side.
Katrina Lake
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Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.
Abraham Pais
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A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
Albert Einstein
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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.
Bil Keane
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We neglect the opportunities which are always present, and imagine that if those that are rare were offered, we should put them to good use. Thus we waste life waiting for what if it came we should be unprepared for.
John Lancaster Spalding
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Plots- it seems there are thousands of them, all one's acquaintances known some, strangers make a present of them in letters, each the basis for a play or a novel...
Max Frisch
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I like to see the present, to work for the present, and to try to improve for the future.
Antonio Conte
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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.
E. M. Forster
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While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It's not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written under the sign of a political mood.
Rick Perlstein
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza
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'O deary, deary me,' moaned the dragon; 'this is too awful. I won't see him, and that's flat. I don't want to know the fellow at all. I'm sure he's not nice. You must tell him to go away at once, please. Say he can write if he likes, but I can't give him an interview. I'm not seeing anybody at present.'
Kenneth Grahame
