Quotes about Present, page 3

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about present

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about present

How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy. To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in...

Quote by Walter Pater about present

Thanks to our present surgical methods in physiology we can demonstrate at any time almost all phenomena of digestion without the loss of even a single drop of blood, without a single scream from the animal undergoing the experiment.

Quote by Ivan Pavlov about present

There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences, while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.

Quote by James Payn about present

The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat.

Quote by Mike Pence about present

I loved rainy days when I did not have to go outside, and to the present I still feel very content on a rainy day.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about present

The present will not long endure us.

Quote by Pindar about present

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about present

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about present

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.

Quote by John Wesley about present

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Quote by Antoine de Rivarol about present

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

Quote by Edmond de Goncourt about present

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

Quote by Sidonie - Gabrielle Colette about present

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Quote by Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre about present

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Quote by Jacques Prévert about present

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

Quote by Russell Hoban about present

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Quote by Jim Bishop about present

The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.

Quote by John Clare about present

Infinite These solitary hills have always been dear to me. Seated here, this sweet hedge, which blocks the distant horizon opening inner silences and interminable distances. I plunge in thought to where my heart, frightened, pulls back....

Quote by Giacomo Leopardi about present