Quotes About Present

Today is a reality, tomorrow's a promise, and yesterday's history!

Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.

Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.

The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.

The whole past is the procession of the present.

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

We care too much about what happens to be there as a result of history. I worry even more that we care too much for the past and not enough for the present and the near present.

Holidays, if you enjoy them, have no history.

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.

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

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.

You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment...The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called the present.

In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.

I want to present a really interesting vision of [Jack] Kirby's characters and environments, as well as dig way, way deeper into the history of the Galactic Rangers.

In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present.

The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.

We should consider the histories of Christ three manner of ways; first, as a history of acts or legends; second, as a gift or a present; thirdly, as an example, which we should believe and follow.

Do not bother about to be recorded in history, try not to become a thing of the past!

You can take things from the past, from the culture, from the immediate past and things that have not yet entered the culture, so they have no history yet. You can create your own context.

History is past politics and politics present history.

I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.