Quotes About Present

For 'historical' means 'subject to time' (p. 242).

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be.

In bourgeois society, living labour is but a means to increase accumulated labour. In Communist society, accumulated labour is but a means to widen, to enrich, to promote the existence of the labourer. In bourgeois society, therefore, the past dominates the present; in Communist society, the present dominates the past. In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

What if this present were the world's last night' she said. 'The word present makes all the difference, don't you think? It makes it seem as if one's somehow in the thick of it, which we are, rather than simply contemplating a theoretical concept.

There was now and it was followed by another now. If you were lucky.

Dr. Kellet said, "it's a snake with its tail in its mouth." He nodded approvingly and said to Sylvie, "It's a symbol representing the circularity of the universe. Time is a construct, in reality everything flows, no past or present, only the now.

There's too much history in York, the past is so crowded that sometimes it feels as if there's no room for the living.

Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them.

Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.

What men have thought about life in the past is less important than what you feel about it to-day.

Come in, -- come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!

For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.

A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.

In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God

No man bears more responsibility for the present worldwide financial crisis and coming depression than Alan Greenspan.

Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.

If you want to give a man something practical, consider tires. More than once, I would have gladly traded all the gifts I got for a new set of tires.

A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.

Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.

Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.

No man is quick enough to enjoy life.

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.