Even when she had to make some one a present of the kind called ‘useful,’ when she had to give an armchair or some table-silver or a walking-stick, she would choose ‘antiques,’ as though their...

There is a present because it works with my theories. If you find a better one than mine, then I may reconsider, but for the sake of the universe—and oh, how we philosophers make the...

[O]urs is a culture of the perpetual present, one that deliberately severs itself from the past that created us as well as the future we are shaping with our actions.

Present, rather than past, is the mother of future. So, your future must take after your present. But if it resembles more your past, the granny must be a slut!

True 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.

The past informs our present and our future.

He wanted to be so many people all at the same time. He feared to be a nobody.Only years later did he realize that all he knew was what he didn’t want to be –...

I’m very aware we are the first generation ever to have such incredible opportunities to express ourselves publicly to a worldwide audience.

She’d cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn’t feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just … empty. It felt like she was...

Only in the present is your mind free to do what it does best — solve problems.

Now that she had worn other faces, seen through other eyes, how could she ever say any face was really her own, even if it was the face she had been given at birth? When...

How long the path may be depends for any man on where he stands today and his speed of travel. These are his past and present choosing, but the beginning of the way is here...

They present tremendous challenges. They’re a big, athletic team. Teams that have given us trouble are ones with big, physical front lines that take advantage of our lack of size and depth.

It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful.

Everybody’s trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.

I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two...

Life is made up of only one thing: the now. The past and the future could be considered dreams, if only they were as real. At least a dream is in the now.

Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.

Et voilà, mon passé n’est plus qu’un trou énorme. Mon présent: cette bonne au corsage noir qui rêve près du comptoir, ce petit bonhomme. Tout ce que je sais de ma vie, il me semble...

Today is a gift.Today is all I have.I be fully awake in today.

Your desire is not up to your decision, your decision is not up to your determination, your determination is not up to your destiny.

We have no control over the future. We can only make the most of the present.

If history really forever repeats itself: then, it has always been then.

In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa, past and future are but distant measures of the present, and memories...

There is a lot I could have anticipated but I live in present & there is no anticipation to it, I wish I had a time machine

When you mix with the wrong energy, there’s bound to be an explosion. Pay attention and switch lanes when the signal changes. What’s really real, is ultimately revealed.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

if you want to match your beat with the universe look at the deepest level of present.

We have to present him before the city court on Feb 6 and he would be brought on a production warrant.

To live meant feeding my former self to my current self.

I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial – what I present to people outwardly – but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise...

How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the...

The past and the future are tools of the ego that render us finite. Without our judgments about the past (memories) and without our judgments about the future (expectations), there is only the Here and...

Only the wool of present will knit the sweater of memories that will keep you warm in the winter of your life.

Hi, I’m from the future, and I’m here to destroy you.” But that is irrational. The future me isn’t out to destroy me, because the me of my past already did a thorough job demolishing...

I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.

Do you know that I love now to recall and visit at certain dates the places where Iwas once happy in my own way? I love to build up my present in harmony with the...

Even when you’d lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you something for free.

dont dwell on the past when the future smiles bright and the present is by your side

The future is forever a projection of the present.

There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn’t drive us mad.

When you do what’s important now for you, you create a past that leaves you ready to handle the present. By default, the future is taking care of itself as you make decisions that are...

We went to the New York World’s Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General...

I don’t really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don’t think about what happened yesterday.

Inspiration, in its rich variety, must be present in any discussion about Africa. We need role models – they are essential to the advancement of our society.

If you have ever felt hopeless hang on The night you’re enduring may seem long but there is joy coming in the morning. Incredible changes are going to take place in your life as you...

They want to be able to present this as a fait accompli .

There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living there was like carving the story of your life on to a sepulchral...

We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting...