Quotes of: Present-tense Keyword

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies. Nor can spirits ever be divided, that love and live in the same divine principle, the root and record of their friendship. If absence be not death, neither ...

Some Fruits of Solitude / More Fruits of Solitude

It was the merit of Gestalt psychology to make us aware of the remarkable performance involved in perceiving shapes. Take, for example, a ball or an egg: we can see their shapes at a glance. Yet suppose that instead of the impression made on our eye ...

Michael Polanyi

Nature  …   has made it impossible for us to have any communication from this earth with the other great bodies of the universe, in our present state; and it is highly possible that he has likewise cut off all communication betwixt the other plan...

Colin Maclaurin

There's no present left. This is the problem for a novelist. [The problem] is the present is gone. We're all living in the future constantly . . . Back in the day Leo Tolstoy -- what a sweetheart of a count and of a writer -- in the 1860's he wanted ...

Gary Shteyngart

Servant: [Presenting a gift] For the Tribune. With the compliments of Quintus Arrius. He awaits your pleasure. Messala: The consul here? Servant: It is Quintus Arrius the Younger, tribune. Messala: Thank him. Bring him to me. Drusus: I didn't know th...

Ben-Hur

The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsid...

Wendell Berry

Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.

Choke

The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.

Doomed

The past and future are what’s complicated. It’s the present that’s simple.

Every Day

It is only the rooms of the present I wish to inhabit.

The Book of Madness and Cures

I felt like I was living two lives. One in the present and one in the past.

The Beacon

The Future,” says Ian, in a film-trailer voice. “Coming soon, to a Present near you.

The Bone Clocks

Any time a stipulation on love is present, unconditional love is not.

The Book of Simple Human Truths

I don’t think so. Beth didn’t get any presents.

Best of Catbug: My Name is Catbug, What's Yours?

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

Mary Augusta Ward

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Oliver Goldsmith

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

Jeremy Renner

Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

Steven Holl

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.

The Honourable Schoolboy

If we know the past, and live the present, it is possible that we dream the future?

Summer Crossing

Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?

The Magic Mountain