Quotes of: Present-tense Keyword

Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.

Children of God

It was strange to become a vampire ,to be presented with what could only be described as an eternal life, and then to die anyway when you're sixteen.

City of Glass

She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted.

Chances

Things had improved after he was born. We both loved him with such fervor that it was impossible that some wouldn’t splash back on us.

Of Christmas Present

I’m a holiday Christian at best and I’d never given much thought to demons. They were an adult version of the boogieman hiding in every kid’s closet.

Of Christmas Present

The body tries to stop the mind from killing itself, no matter the cost. It is only the lack of strength, the fatigue that lets the jumpers fall at last.

Of Christmas Present

The first category is always the man of the present, the second the man of the future. The first preserve the world and people it, the second move the world and lead it to its goal.

Crime and Punishment

How do we meditate? It is not thinking about the past or future. It starts with being present.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Comics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality.

Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga

He gave me a gift, a surprise. It was my first present in this place so far from home.

Dispatches from the Republic of Otherness

... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.

Don Quixote

Entre el deseo y la nostalgia, hay un punto que se llama el presente.

Dans les forêts de Sibérie

Every moment is brand new, but we often fill the new with fear of the future or pain of the past instead of simply enjoying the present.

The Essentials of Life

See with your mind, Speak with your heart, Touch with your eyes, Love with your entire being.

Elysian Dreams: Where the Past Meets the Present

They are moved less by the direct presence of their gods than by the more indirect feeling that they would somehow like their gods to be present.

Eight Theories of Religion

Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.

The Elephant Tree

Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.

Free-Thought on the American Frontier

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

Family Happiness

...the wounds of the past and the scars of the present don't disfigure me in your eyes - because you know the price I pay for loving you ...

A Familiar Rain

In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.

Great Expectations