Quotes About Present

The sun has been there for 500, 600 years.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.

If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

Un uomo felice è troppo soddisfatto del presente per pensare molto al futuro

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell on the future.

Non mi preoccupo mai del futuro, arriva sempre abbastanza presto

No pienso nunca en el futuro porque llega muy pronto.

Alexandria and its scholars […] never mistook the true nature of the past; they knew it to be the source of an ever-shifting present in which new readers engaged with old books which became new in the reading process. Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

Like the sea, the Web is volatile: 70 percent of its communications last less than four months. Its virtue (its virtuality) entails a constant present-which for medieval scholars was one of the definitions of hell.23

God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.

Here and now, boys.

In the street he drew a deep breath. He was free. Free from recollection and anticipation. Free, for an hour or two, to refuse to admit the existence of the past or future. Free to live only now and here, in the place where his body happened at each instant to be. Free -- but the boast was idle; he went on remembering. Escape was not so easy a matter.

He wished to ignore all but here and now, to be as though he had only just entered the world and were destined to be eternal. Bus his memory survived, even though he never deliberately made use of it; and though the things which had been Isabels were destoryed, he could not guard against chance reminders. Chance had found many gaps in his defenses this morning.

back into the present, back into reality; the appalling present, the awful reality – but sublime, but significant, but desperately important precisely because of the imminence of that which made them so fearful.

Five minutes later roots and fruits were abolished; the flower of the present rosily blossomed.

Like a muezzin in his minaret, one of the talking birds began to shout from the tall palm beyond the mango trees, "Here and now, boys. Here and now, boys.

Never put off till to-morrow the fun you can have to-day.

of a perpetual present made up of one continually changing apocalypse.

In the end she persuaded him to swallow fou tablets of soma. Five minutes later roots and fruits were abolished; the flower of the present rosily blossomed.