present quotes

• Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains . . . But it can put mountains where there are none. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [faith/present]
• A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. (Vladimir Nabokov) [more/housing/present/past]
• Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [look/past/present/future]
• He that fears not the future may enjoy the present. (Thomas Fuller) [future/present]
• We have within ourselves
  Enough to fill the present day with joy,
  And overspread the future years with hope. (William Wordsworth) [present/day/joy/future]
• There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected. (Joseph Addison) [present/moment/future/life]
• labor not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was ( Akhenaton) [think/present/moment]
• Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence. (Hannah Arendt) [future/present/men/action]
• However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself. (Antonin Artaud) [present/order/respect/order]
• The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed. (James Baldwin) [present/student/generation/point]
• There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. (Roland Barthes) [present/day/society]
• He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause. (Henry Ward Beecher) [present/willpower/find]
• The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. (Walter Benjamin) [construction/life/present/power]
• All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage. (William Blake) [destruction/present/rage]
• I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume. (Italo Calvino) [present/human/society]
• Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. (Albert Camus) [future/present]
• The whole past is the procession of the present. (Thomas Carlyle) [past/present]
• I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told. (Dale Carnegie) [present/people]
• Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. (Dale Carnegie) [feeling/present/condition/waste]
• One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments. (Dale Carnegie) [present/life/people/words]
• The present condition of fame is merely fashion. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [present/condition/fame/fashion]
• If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future. (Winston Churchill) [quarrel/past/present/find]
• Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead. (Charles Caleb Colton) [present/fame/think/future]
• Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. (Charles Dickens) [present/past/men]
• Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. (Denis Diderot) [genius/present/age/men]
• For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good. (John Dryden) [present/more/blood]
• The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. (Albert Einstein) [past/present/future]
• Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [future/present]
• We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [present/past]
• One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [life/present/day/day]
• The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane. (Ludwig Feuerbach) [present/age/thing/reality]

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