Quotes on Present

Though I have drawn my sword in the present generous struggle for the rights of men, yet I am not in arms as an American, nor am I in pursuit of riches. My fortune is liberal enough, having no wife nor family, and having lived long enough to know that riches cannot ensure happiness.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Live in the present moment. The past and future are nonexistent. Only the present can be grasped or, better, embraced.

Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

Too many leaders are so caught up in the momentum of work that they lose sight of the opportunity to connect with people. I discovered that the more fully present I was with other people, the more fully present they were with me, and the more productive our relationship became over time.

'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.

The whole idea is to look at the television camera and present as much love as you possibly could to a person who might feel that he or she needs it.

When I stepped away two springs ago, I just really wanted to shift my priorities to be able to be more available and present to show up for things that I felt were mattering more than being a professional athlete.

In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.

Commanded by God dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible to remember their past, Jews historically obeyed not by recording events but by ritually re-enacting them: by understanding the present through the lens of the past.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred's jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence.

The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, there is a human dimension to time, human voices within it, and human griefs ordained by it.

Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.

It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good, and in this sense the church must unmask evil, rendering present the goodness of God, rendering present his truth, the truly infinite for which we are thirsty.

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

I am only at home in the present.

Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety.

Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India.