I count as blessings things I could have benefited from, even if I neglected to utilize them. A gift is still a gift, even if left wrapped and unopened.

I haven’t checked with the committee on how much was collected but we didn’t present the donation as we didn’t want to interrupt their training schedule.

There’s no present left. This is the problem for a novelist. [The problem] is the present is gone. We’re all living in the future constantly . . . Back in the day Leo Tolstoy —...

The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom.

Love holds no expectation on what you will be, it simply values who you are.

Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It’s taxing because you’re present – it’s not like cutting a movie and test focus-grouping it and filling out forms.

There is no one right now in my judgment that can unite the Black electorate in such a way to present our agenda to a nominee to have them forthrightly address our concerns.

In order to live in the present, we have to learn how to feel safe even when a situation feels threatening to us.

If Africa’s per capita consumption of fish is just to be kept at its present level, though grossly low and unacceptable, then fish production must be increased by over 250 percent by 2015.

The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.

Because maybe Watonka was only ever supposed to be a temporary stopover, and maybe I will chase that train over the hill, and maybe we’re all destined to leave this place, for sure, for real,...

Time…Once it’s gone, it belongs to the past.We do not hold on to the now, andWe do not treasure the future…We keep receiving this present, but we never open and cherish it until it is...

If the necessary ingredients are present this could be a very powerful bomb, though probably not as powerful as a car bomb.

And I have fitted up some chambers thereLooking towards the golden Eastern air,And level with the living winds, which flowLike waves above the living waves below.—I have sent books and music there, and allThose instruments...

A simple token carries the significance of a diamond

And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. It is the vital ocean in which we all...

I want to emphasize that the H5N1 subtype detected in Manitoba is completely distinct from the strain currently present in Asia,

Tis the old wind in the old anger,But then it threshed another wood.

To some education is just a bore; to most education is food for the brain and enrichment for the present and future.

Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I...

Neither mine nor other people’s prospects seem particularly pleasing just at the moment, and I have fantasies of going to Iceland, never to return. As it is, I tell myself not to remember the past,...

I don’t regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life’s full.

A clone would make a great birthday gift, because it’s the only gift that keeps on giving. At least it’d better give me a birthday present every year. It owes its life to me.

He wore red, white, and blue, but he didn’t look patriotic—he looked like a sloppily wrapped birthday present. But it’s not his fault. I tried to wrap him as tight as I could without restricting...

‘Crash’ is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We’re distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal...

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Given the present situation, the visit is not timely.

Have you noticed,” she asked him, “how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips...

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

When a poet presents you with blank leaves you should consider it no small present

We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.

What right does my present have to speak of my past? Has my present some advantage over my past? What “grace” might have enlightened me? except that of passing time, or of a good cause,...

Ture stories can’t be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

It won’t be a present.

One of the hardest things to do is to be present and open and clear about who you are and what you stand for. We all have issues with that.

Someone who doesn’t know if tomorrow will come would rather live every day twice than live it once.

Live in the present. Don’t think about things that aren’t happening. Definitely don’t think about eating cheeseburgers when you’re not eating cheeseburgers. First of all, it’s not happening. Second of all, it’ll just make you...

The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.

Divorce the past to marry the present and be blessed with a lovely child of future.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Hence this life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it...

He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.

Then you think, is this a better world, closer to theone before you knew of wars—earth wars? Before you found that canary in its cagelaying, barely heaving. And you took it outside and said, Go...

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by...

I always to leave the past behind me, because the present has everything that I need to keep moving forward in the direction of my destiny.

Tomorrow’s fast becoming our Past.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

How we present ourselves at any given time is dependent on the situation. We constantly balance the tension of high aspirations with the pragmatism of realistic expectations. The key is to represent ourselves in such...