Quotes About Present

When you're in pain, tomorrow doesn't exist - just the pain - and the only thing that you want in the world is for it to go away.

Stay present. You'll always have time to worry later on if you want to.

To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it means.

All my career, I've said this: Critics and producers think audiences want actors that only present the silhouette and hit the points in the silhouette. What I do is too dangerous.

It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, currently, not after I'm gone.

Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.

Obsessing over the future is not how God wants us to live, because showing us the future is not God's way.

Success in the present is only achieved when you put your focus where you want your future.

You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful pieve of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want. -pg276

When you're in political times, you want to reflect those political times, and sometimes going back to our past is the best way to look at our present.

I don't care about lasting. I just want right now.

The past, as you suggest, is absolutely present at all times and the present is born from the past. I wouldn't want to suggest that the past determines the present.

When I'm describing wartime activities or violence I don't want to be too ornate, to prettify the picture. Once we trace them to the present, the prose becomes denser.

The audience wants you present, not perfect.

Lost ages are neither more nor less profound than the one we live in right now.

We lie about our past to make peace with the present. If we accepted the truth of our history, we would find no peace – our consciences would not permit it. Nor would our rage.

upon what has gone before, and that one must be mindful of that at every moment, with every choice made and about to be made.

Omens are for fools, but every truth of the future resides in the present, if only we have the will to see

A soul made weary longed for sordid ends. But a soul at its end longed for all that was past, and so remained trapped in a present filled with regrets.

The beauty of prophecies is that they are so conveniently open to countless reinterpretations, as the demand presents itself.

Don't matter, now,' one said. 'We're here and here's here and that's that.

Dimness of thought and lack of introspection made many humans less than human, surrendering their precious gifts to a headlong plunge forward, always forward. He'd had his own benighted years, when he would proclaim that he lived only for the present. He had willed himself stupid, because it was an easy thing to do.

There's no point in thinking about tomorrow. Just the next hour, each hour. Stay alive, Felisin, and live well if you can.

Badalle thought that Saddic's book should hold vast numbers of blank pages, to mark such silences and all they contained. The truths and the lies, the needs and the wants. The nows and the thens, the theres and the heres. If she saw such pages, and could crisp back each one, one after another, she would nod, remembering how it was. How it was.