Quotes About Present

Ich gestehe dir gern, dass diejenigen die Glücklichsten sind, die gleich den Kindern in den Tag hineinleben.

las aflicciones de los hombres serían menores si no se empeñasen con tanta imaginación (¡Dios sabrá por qué los ha hecho así!) en rememorar los males pasados en lugar de soportar un presente anodino.

as dores não seriam tão grandes entre os homens se eles -Deus sabe por que os fez assim-, com tanto ardor de imaginação, não se empenhassem em revocar os passados dissabores em vez de aturar um presente suportável.

Always hold fast to the present. Every situation, indeed every moment, is of infinite value, for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

E?er insanlar sürekli geçmi?i hat?rlamak yerine ?u günlerin tad?n? ç?karsalard? bu kadar ac? çekmezlerdi.

Let's enjoy the beautiful things we can see, my dear, and not think about those we cannot.

We might realize that the present moment may be one of an eternal or sempiternal series of moments, all of which will resemble it because, in some ways, they are the present, and won't in other ways, because the present will be the past by that time.

It was all as it had been, except for the weight of the present, that scuttled the pact we made with heaven. In truth there was no cause for rejoicing, nor need to turn around, either. We were lost just by standing, listening to the hum of wires overhead.

We never live long enough in our lives to know what today is like. — John Ashbery, from "The Improvement," And the Stars were Shining (Noonday Press, 1994)

And time shall force a gift on each.

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

The instant is not in time -- time is in the instant.

If we can see the present clearly enough, we shall ask the right questions of the past.

geçmiÅŸ hiçbir zaman olduÄŸu yerde durup yeniden keÅŸfedilmeyi, ayn?yla, olduÄŸu gibi tan?nmay? beklemez. tarih her zaman belli bir ÅŸimdi'yle onun geçmiÅŸi aras?ndaki iliÅŸkiyi kurar. demek ki ÅŸimdi'den korkmak eskiyi bulandirmaya yol aç?yor. geçmiÅŸ içinde yaÅŸanacak bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir.

The past is never there waiting to be discovered, to be recognized for exactly what it is. History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. The past is not for living in; it is a well of conclusions from which we draw in order to act.

bir kitap yazmak isterim bazen yaln?z zamanla ilgili bir kitap zaman?n nas?l da olmay???, gelecek ve geçmiÅŸin nas?l da sürekli bir ÅŸu an oluÅŸuyla ilgili. düÅŸünürüm ki herkes - yaÅŸayan yaÅŸam?? ve yaÅŸayacak olan herkes- canl?d?r ÅŸimdi. bu meseleyi didik didik etmek isterim tüfeÄŸini boÅŸaltan bir asker gibi.

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

In Europe, the present is perceived as the endpoint of history. In America, the present is perceived as the beginning of the future.

No Memory happens in the past. To say this in so many words is, no doubt, to state the obvious - our memories happen now, in the madeleine- and tisane-tinctured present - but it strikes me as peculiar, still, that my recollections have so little to do with historical time.

Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars....

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

I feel that I am merely an agent, giving you some keys that have been given to me to pass on to you. These keys are to unlock doors out of your present prison. Doors opening onto new vistas. Doors beyond where you are now.

There are places where years have no meaning, where only a hair's breadth of history separates the present from the past. Standing there on that bleak hillside, a young man in a place where other young men had died, it was possible to feel a connection to that past, a sense that in some place further back on the the stream of time these young men were still fighting, and still dying, that they would always be fighting this battle, in this place, over and over again, with ever the same end.

I felt about the city as I felt about the house in Scarborough : it was a place where the past was alive in the present, where a man could find a place for himself as long as he understood the fact that he was a link in the chain, for a man cut off from his past was a man adrift in the present.