Quotes About Present

I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.

If the finest hour is now, then I'll always be in it.

Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make 'Humpday' a comedy.

Buddhist teachings suggest that when we find the thing that keeps us from appreciating the present, the thing that keeps us from trusting, the very thing that causes us suffering, it is a gate to freedom, to awakening.

This year's vintage is best enjoyed this year. Let's begin.

All of the emotional signalling that animals use is still present in humans and registers importantly with us.

Glorious wrappings sheath the gift of one day more. Breathless I unwrap the package. Never lived this day before.

The beginnings are gone, Laurel. But we can start with today and what you got around you.

You two have to promise to be careful! Sinead handed Amy a small plastic bag. I made you a going-away present–a high-powered miniature smoke bomb. Could come in handy against the Vespers. It works with knockout gas, so I tossed in a couple of breathing filters. That's the Cahill equivalent of a Hallmark moment, Dan observed. A smoke bomb. When you care enough to send the very best–explosives. I'm not a flowers-and-candy kind of girl, Sinead informed him.

Brilliant as he was, Jake was not a Cahill, and he couldn't possibly understand the lesson they'de learned in the search for the 39 Clues. There was no point worrying about what might have happened. As long as you were still alive, still in the hunt, that was a good day…. Amy and Dan lived in the moment, because hard experience had taught them that there was no other time.

Much of history is fragmentary and essentially anachronistic – condemning the past for not being more like the present. It has no real interest in the pastness of the past.

But then Americans have always lived entirely in the present, and this generation is no different from mine except that now there is more of a past for them to ignore.

There is no need for us to know what we cannot know. There is so much for us to deal with here.

She had an immense store of trivial memories and when she wasn't living in the future she was living in the past. As for the present - she got through that as quickly as she could, running away from things, running towards things, so that her voice was always a little breathless, her heart pounding at an escape or an expectation.

When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the consciousness of time: to me the present is never here: it is always last year or next week.

now when I'm writing it's already tomorrow and I'm afraid of getting to the end of yesterday. As long as I go on writing, yesterday is today and we are still together.

St. Augustine asked where time came from. He said it came out of the future which didn't exist yet, into the present that had no duration, and went into the past which had ceased to exist.

St Augustine asked where time came from. He said it came out of the future which didn't exist yet, into the present that had no duration, and went into the past which had ceased to exist.

She had an immense store of trivial memories and when she wasn't living in the future she was living in the past. As for the present—she got through that as quickly as she could, running away from things, running towards things, so that her voice was always a little breathless, her heart pounding at an escape or an expectation.

Integral to it is the parallel assumption of gradualism, namely that "the present is the key to the past" and that the rate of change observable today is an accurate guide to rates of change that prevailed in the past.

Così come noi siamo fatti per un decimo di tessuti viventi e per nove decimi di acqua, così la vita è per un decimo Qui e Ora, e per nove decimi è una lezione di storia. Per la maggior parte del tempo, il Qui e Ora non è nè qui nè ora.

Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Our actions have consequences that last long after us, entwining the present with the future in ways we cannot begin to understand. I have resolved a simple thing: I will do those things which make me happy today, and which I can also live with ten years from now.

The past is never dead. It's not even past; if it were there would be no grief or sorrow.