Quotes About Present

More and more, I think you should have no expectations and do everything for its own sake. That way you won't be hit in the head quite so frequently.

I tell myself not to remember the past, not to hope or fear for the future, and not to think in the present, a comprehensive program that will undoubtedly have very little success.

What is history? ... it is a continuous process of interaction between the historian and his facts, an unending dialogue between the present and the past.

Aprender acerca del presente a la luz del pasado quiere también decir aprender del pasado a la luz del presente. La función de la historia es la de estimular una mas profunda comprensión tanto del pasado como del presente por su comparación recíproca.

To enable man to understand the society of the past and to increase his mastery over the society of the present is the dual function of history.

ONLY TODAY Yesterday can no longer be touched. Tomorrow is out of your reach. So live today, only today.

I'll let you in on a little secret, Garry: everything is history. By the time you notice it, it's already happened. That famous imposter, the present, disappears in the cognitive gap. Mind the gap!

God says that he will give you grace to handle the disappointments that lie ahead; your task is to live for him in the present. At first, this feels reckless, as if you were enjoying the thrill of a speeding car when you are courting devastation at the next turn. But it isn't reckless to trust in God rather than yourself.

Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.

Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.

Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now--always.

What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.

El pasado, creo, es mucho más difícil de ocultar que el presente.

Pero nos imaginamos el porvenir como un reflejo del presente proyectado vacío, mientras que es el resultado a menudo muy próximo de causas que en su mayor parte se nos escapan (La prisionera).

There is a precise instant when the world is marvelous: now.

todos hemos sido algo que muchas veces explica lo que somos ahora

Perhaps if they all remained silent for as long as possible, they'd slip out of this moment into the next one, and then the next one, until all the preceding moments were erased from memory and everything could start all over again. The ultimate American dream: the eternal present, where nothing has ever happened before what is happening now.

The inter- view is about the past—like all other historical sources, it provides us with factual information that can be verified and critically scrutinized—but is of the present...These are living voices, voices that speak with us now