Present Quotes
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I used to go to musicals every birthday - that was my birthday present. We'd go to London, me and my two brothers and mum and dad. I think I saw 'Mamma Mia' about five times.
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I think the great thing about the Jack Ryan films is that the plot and the story always take center stage. If you've done your job as the actor portraying Jack Ryan, you are present enough to make an impact, but you let the story shine.
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The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present. Yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.
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Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment, still less to live through it. Life would be bearable only to frivolous natures, those in fact who do not remember.
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The last thing I want to do is to present something as 'Stephen King, Part II,' and have it be something that's a big disappointment.
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He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time.
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I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.
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I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working' piece.
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Everybody makes the same mistake. Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.
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For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.
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The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.
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But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
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Prospecting for oil is a dynamic art... The greatest single element in all prospecting, past, present and future, is the man willing to take a chance
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The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation increases the sense of oppression. Nor is the paradox merely in the mind: the laws enacted to secure the rights of every person and group, by creating protective boundaries, create new barriers.
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Playing Mark Antony in 'Rome' will always be a favourite of mine because he was such an outrageously big and interesting character to play. Also, the fact that we were able, with that character, to find out and present the public with a biography of that man that had not been really seen before.
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I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.
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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.
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If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.
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You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.
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Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.
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I have a very flexible and easy schedule that affords me a wonderful lifestyle in Los Angeles. I'm able to be a very present mother, able to pursue other projects.
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I don't know my future. I don't know about tomorrow. I can just control for today or present, right now. I don't want to think about future too much, because present is most important for me.
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The stupendous time spans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture (though maybe not in the United States Bible Belt, nor in parts of the Islamic world). Most people are at ease with the idea that our present biosphere is the outcome of four billion years of Darwinian evolution.
