We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
Iris MurdochI've always noticed that films set in any sort of future very rarely draw on the present.
Nicolas RoegA complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
B. H. Liddell HartI must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.
Christie BrinkleyThe present state of the world is normal; it with the last (19th) century that with the abnormality.
C.S. Lewis