Quotes of: Present-tense Keyword

Once illness strikes, you realize there's not a lot of time for you to do what you really need to do. And there's no time like the present.

Rufus Wainwright

I have realized sometimes I do better working under a crazy schedule. It gives me less time to overthink things and forces me to be present.

Torrey DeVitto

The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

Ed Asner

Lazio: Do you have anyone in with Costello presently? Dignam: Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe fuck yourself.

The Departed

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

Penelope Lively

The present U.N. must be annihilated by our power. That is the stage for Communists. We must make a new U.N.

Sun Myung Moon

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

Mikhail Bakunin

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Roland Barthes

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

Glen Hansard

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

Marianne Williamson

Hard men present hard choices - none more so than Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia.

Hillary Clinton

Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'

Tracy Chapman

Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.

Dick Morris

The distinction between past, present and future is an illusion, but a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.

Alexander Humboldt

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Past is over, please don't open the door for it again. It will kidnap the present from under your nose

Akanksha

To some education is just a bore; to most education is food for the brain and enrichment for the present and future.

Ana Monnar

I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

Ajay Naidu

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

Agnes Repplier