Quotes
Quotes about Present
One looks for Eden in history, best left unvisited, for the primal sin is always a present sin
I envy any man who can carve marble. To climb it is for me, in my present state, work enough
The universe exists and somebody had to make it. The whole complex movement of the universe represents order. The Creator loves order and hates chaos. Virtue is order. Sin is chaos ... The sinner often doesn't understand the extent to which he destroys order ... The soul dedicated to order joins the ultimate divine order
You have no right to assume that your present present present represents a permanent and unchangeable state
The past does not determine the present; the present modifies the past
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you hardly catch it going.
Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: You find the present tense and the past perfect.
The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
Presents, I often say, endear absents.
For I verily, absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, . . .
For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with the Lord.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
'Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.'
