Quotes About Present

Don't start living tomorrow, tomorrow never arrives. Start working on your dreams and ambitions today.

If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is.

Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it does ruin today's happiness.

In film you have the opportunity of retakes or of giving your best profile. In theatre, it's right here, right now.

The precariat can be divided into three further groups - atavists, who look back to a lost past; nostalgics, who look forlornly for a present, a home; and progressives, who look for a lost future.

I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out.

At the end of the day, none of us are really promised tomorrow anyway.

To the extent that there is anything properly identifiable as dignity in our society today, our present writers of comedy would be inclined to treat it as a proper object of ridicule.

'The Last Patriot' is set in the present day but is based upon the premise that the Prophet Mohammed had a final revelation, he shared it with his disciples, and they killed him to keep it hidden and out of the Qur'an. If this missing revelation can be found, its impact on the world will be incredible.

I want to make it very clear, if confirmed as DNI, every whistleblower - past, present and future - will enjoy every protection under the law.

If you want it to be as perfect as it can be, then you have to learn to ride the pause. Stay in the moment.

It is youth's felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future

The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.

It is youth's felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future - flowers and gold, girls and stars, they are only prefigurations and prophecies of that incomparable, unattainable young dream.

There was a midsummer restlessness abroad--early August with imprudent loves and impulsive crimes. With little more to expect from summer, one tried anxiously to live in the present--or, if there was no present, to invent one.

Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night.

The present was the thing--work to do and someone to love. But not to love too much, for he knew the injury that a father can do to a daughter or a mother to a son by attaching them too closely: afterward, out in the world, the child would seek in the marriage partner the same blind tenderness and, failing probably to find it, turn against love and life

There is no such thing as was-only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.

History is not was, it is.

It is the memory of past happiness that makes the present so intolerable.

Vivo sempre no presente. O futuro, não o conheço. O passado, já o não tenho.

I live always in the present. I know nothing of the future and no longer have a past. The former weighs me down with a thousand possibilities, the latter with the reality of nothingness.

I should explain that I really did travel, but everything smacks to me of merely telling myself that I travelled, although I didn't. I carried back and forth, from north to south and east to west, the weariness of having had a past, the disquiet of living a present, and the tedium of having to have a future. And yet I struggle so hard to remain entirely in the present, killing inside me the past and the future.

Tomorrow doesn't exist. This moment Alone is mine, and I am only who Exists in this instant, which might be the last Of the self I pretend to be. 16 March 1933