We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting in nature at a given instant, as well as the momentary positions...
If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. But that is the most that hope can do for us - to make some hardship lighter. When I think deeply about the nature of hope, I see something tragic. Since we cling to our hope i...
But whatever the exact psychology of the process {receiving recognition or literary success}, the present has a way of contaminating the past. And the writing will change accordingly. Turmoil and dilemma once experienced with a certain desperation ma...
Não existe maior decepção do que damos-nos conta que não fomos capazes de descobrir a um grande e fiel amigo que sempre esteve presente. Sempre presente, ao nosso lado e sem sequer darmos algum valor. Isso acontece porque os amigos de verdade nã...
For nearly thirty years the powerful propaganda machines of Stalinism worked furiously to expunge Trotsky's name from the annals of the revolution, or to leave it there only as the synonym for arch-traitor. To the present Soviet generation, and not o...
The present and the future belong to believers and practitioners of excellence; not the "dinosaurs.
Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.
The past is the past. It’s the present we should worry about.
No estarás lejos de la verdad si supones que se encuentra presente…#
The past and the future are complicated. It's the present that's simple.
we should live like we smoke— inhale the present and exhale the past.
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
The past is truly an inoperable tumour that spreads to the present.
I forgot to get you a present . . . On purpose.
We must endure the present circumstances for a far greater future.
The different shades of colours present cultural diversity.
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
I'm happy to be content-maker as well as curator, so I'm happy to also be a presenter for amazing things.
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.
