Quotes of: Present-tense Keyword

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

Fernando Flores

What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?

Giordano Bruno

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

James Broughton

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

Jean de la Bruyere

It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future.

John Desmond Bernal

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

James Thurber

Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the present.

Louise Gluck

Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.

Nathan Myhrvold

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Susan Sontag

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

Tom Stoppard

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

William Godwin

Life constantly presents the greatest opportunity brilliantly disguised as the biggest disaster.

David Icke

I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.

Francesca Annis

You never know what's going on in someone's life. You never know what's really going on behind what they present.

Hill Harper

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

Henry David Thoreau

When fame presented itself to me, I was not at a point in my life where I was equipped to deal with it.

Trent Reznor

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

William Wilberforce

Never let your negative past steal the beauty of your present.

Edmond Mbiaka

„Those who decide to live in the Present, must leave their past behind.

Frank M. Wanderer

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

George Crumb