Present Quotes
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The present moment is our ain, The neist we never saw!
William Julius Mickle -
God giveth and God taketh away. Just be sure you’re present when he giveth – and somewhere else when he taketh it all back.
Conn Iggulden
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As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.
Germany Kent -
You are so anxious about the future that you do not enjoy the present. You therefore do not live in the present or the future. You live as if you are never going to die, and then die having never really lived.
Dalai Lama -
The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.
Paul Schrader -
I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.
Joy Fielding -
Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.
Cressida Cowell -
What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present.
Marianne Williamson
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We must know how to look into images to see that of which they are survivors. So that history, liberated from the pure past (that absolute, that abstraction), might help us to open the present of time.
Georges Didi-Huberman -
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.
Evelyn Waugh -
She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.
Jane Austen -
Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.
Alexander MacLaren -
There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.
Eugene O'Neill -
Never let yourself think that because God has given you many things to do for Himpressing routine jobs, a life full up with duties and demands of a very practical sort---that all these need separate you from communion with Him. God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament; however unexpected its outward form may be receive Him in every sight and sound, joy, pain, opportunity and sacrifice.
Evelyn Underhill
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Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.
Simon McBurney -
With 'The Keep,' I began with a theory about pitting the isolated disconnection of the gothic realm against present-day hyperconnectedness. I emerged feeling that the gothic genre is all about hyperconnectedness - the possibility of disembodied communication - and that we now live in a kind of permanently gothic state.
Jennifer Egan -
The General Assembly is a unique organ. It's the most representative organ of the United Nations, where all 193 Member States are present. Each has one vote regardless of its size, power, or wealth. That gives the body a huge authority.
Miroslav Lajcak -
Hindsight is a beautiful thing, mage. The past is for the memory, the present is for the mind.
Ben Galley -
The present is the merest flicker between the long long time past and the things that haven't yet happened but most assuredly will.
Estela Portillo Trambley -
I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.
Jonathan Ames
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It's funny how the present can change the past.
Andrew Sean Greer -
Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn't here yet, whatever it's going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That's it.
Bill Murray -
If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.
Catherine Deneuve -
Real stories - whether in pure fiction or historical - have a certain indefinable power; we are endlessly curious about the past and hungry for learning that we hope will illuminate the present.
Simon Sebag Montefiore