Quotes of: Present-tense Keyword

The present is always the best, even when its rough.

4 Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma, and Jacques Vaché

..What our contempt often hurls from us, We wish it our again; the present pleasure, By revolution lowering,does become The opposite of itself..

Antony and Cleopatra

I could now see her the way she actually is and not in the distorted way my mind presented her to me when I was trying to find a reason to reject her and move on

As Always, Dave

Although one may direct the future or past through the onerous linkages of temporal cause and effect, riding the breaking waves of the present and never once overstepping it, the better way is to go there and do it yourself.

Aizai the Forgotten

I’ve been so caught up with mapping out a picture-perfect “forever” that I’m completely neglecting my present, which I have far more control over anyway.

Anatomy of a Single Girl

Stay More' is synonymous with 'Status Quo' in fact, there are people who believe, or who like to believe, that the name of the town was intended as an entreaty, beseeching the past to remain present.

The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.

The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to Present

Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

But in the present century, thanks in good part to the influence of , we have come to see that the unproved postulates with which we start are purely arbitrary. They must be consistent, they had better lead to something interesting.

A History of Geometrical Methods

The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.

Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure

I got you a present." "Did you?" "It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed like the thing. Then I screwed up and left it in my desk at work

Innocent in Death

We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Take note and give thanks for all the good things present in your life.

Inspire To Reach Higher Lite Edition: A-Z Empowering Quotes That I.N.S.P.I.R.E.

Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself.

The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction

This is my present, also yours, free to choose. I am here at your side, alive, and no ghost. Let beauty and care forge the weapons tonight.

Initiate's Trial

Opponents past and present have the same essential weakness about them: first they want to use you, then they want to be you, then they want to snuff you out.

Julian Assange - The Unauthorised Autobiography

Even if you time travel your past, it can't be changed, likewise you can't possibly change your future, it is always the present which matters.

Just the Way I Feel

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal. -- from The Sexual Side of Spirituality

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

KISS Life "Life is what you make it"

When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.

At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

A good leader must have the wisdom to know when a pursuit is no longer worthy of being pursued - a time when the losses of the present must be accepted - and cut - to preserve the gains and providence of the future.

Rise of the Morningstar