Top 100 Br Present Quotes
#1. I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors
since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this
present twelve o'clock at midnight.
William Shakespeare
#2. Past is dead
Future is uncertain;
Present is all you have,
So eat, drink and live merry.
Albert Einstein
#3. Falling for someone romantically is more complex. Many
of the old classic languages refer to three different types
of love or affection. Roughly translated, they include
general, brotherly and sexual love. When all three are
present, a relationship is indeed rich.
Nicholas Boothman
#4. Loan me your lace of yellow, sister
Lend me your fine kid gloves
Tonight is the bridal ball, sister
Tonight I'll meet my love
Present me a sash of blue, sister
Gift me a ribbon of white
My love awaits me below, sister
I am a bride tonight
Shannon Hale
#5. Present, I flee you: absent, I find you again.(Shakespeare)
Present, I fled him. But no matter the distance between us, I kept coming back to him. It all kept coming back to him.
Cora Carmack
#6. You have no idea about presents or what they mean. The last
present you gave me was a stick."
"You wanted a weapon."
"It was a stick."
"It had a bow on it."
"It was a stick."
"I thought you liked the stick. You laughed.
Derek Landy
#7. It is the soul that sees; the outward eyes
Present the object, but the Mind descries.
We see nothing till we truly understand it.
John Constable
#8. The deletion of logic is through....
Love
Acceptance
Forgiveness
Compassion
Understanding
Faith in the unknown
Present Moment Living
Conscious Breathing
Matthew Donnelly
#9. Unspoken words between you and I,
Present in the eyes of knowing,
Lost in the realm of unforeseen beauty,
I am yours.
Truth Devour
#10. Where in the world did you get that dress?"
"Present from Zu."
"You look like you want to throw it in a fire."
"I can't promise there won't be an unfortunate accident later on.
Alexandra Bracken
#11. A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to
present himself for Holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a
candidate precisely because of the candidate's permissive stand on abortion
and/or euthanasia.
Pope Benedict XVI
#12. Chronocanine Envy:
Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, Life must be lived forward.
Douglas Coupland
#13. The most important time in history is - NOW - the present,
So count your blessings cause time can't define the essence.
Talib Kweli
#15. Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act
act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#17. I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived
my breakfast supplied only two ideas
that the rolls were good and the butter bad.
Jane Austen
#18. Past and present commingle:
Eternity in the single blink of an eye!
Lu Chi
#19. Perhaps you didn't say much about him, mother, but Gerald said lots - dreadful things!'
'Yes,' said the Duchess, 'he said what he thought. The present generation does, you know. To the uninitiated, I admit, dear, it does sound a little rude.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#20. Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. ...
And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold.
Milton Friedman
#21. We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days
our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.
A.S.A Harrison
#22. A money-lender
he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.
Joseph Addison
#23. Let your strength from the past
provide proof of your abilities to ...
conquer the difficulties of the present.
John-Talmage Mathis
#24. Is it not folly, Spider-like to spin
The Thread of present Life away to win-
What? for ourselves, who know not if we shall
Breathe out the very Breath we now breathe in!
Omar Khayyam
#25. Do you believe, she went on, that the past dies?
Yes, said Margaret. Yes, if the present cuts its throat.
Leonora Carrington
#26. But you have to live in the present. You have to take the old and make it new
that's my point.
Lauren Myracle
#27. Every soul has a past
Every soul lives a present
And every soul deserve a future
no judging on one's past
because its might be your future
Hlovate
#28. Peace is present in every breath we take.
Peace is present in every loving gesture we make.
Debasish Mridha
#30. Rather than being nonverbal, individuals with NLD generally present with abundant verbal ability, with many showing precocious language development and
high levels of vocabulary and general knowledge.
Maggie Mamen
#31. You look back in time to when there was slavery and you think 'how did people even remotely believe that this was a good idea?'.
It's incomprehensible for us to think of what the mindset was 100 or 200 years ago. I hope to make the present as incomprehensible to the future as the past is to us.
Stefan Molyneux
#32. Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction
a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on the threads of fantasies and wishes that do not necessarily follow the laws of linear chronology.
Louise J. Kaplan
#33. And oh, god, how could so much regret and so much sweetness and so much sadness all be present in that single moment. I was already dead and missing my unlived life. I was already dead and Tobias was mourning.
I tried to smile. For him.
Katherine Applegate
#34. Children have neither past nor future;
they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.
Jean De La Bruyere
#35. The Nurse
Practitioner and an issue of The American Journal for Nurse
Practitioners present a summary of each state's practice
acts as they relate to titling, roles, and prescriptive authority. As of January 2009 (Pearson, 2009; Phillips, 2009),
Teri Moser Woo
#36. The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic
to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, Do you like it? If you don't like it, change it.
Edward Albee
#37. God knows," Charpentier said, "I like the present scheme of things very little, but I dread to think what will happen if the conduct of reform falls into hands like yours."
"Reform?" Camille said. "I'm not talking about reform. The city will explode this summer.
Hilary Mantel
#38. We live not in our moments or our years:
The present we fling from us like the rind
Of some sweet future, which we after find
Bitter to taste.
Richard Chenevix Trench
#39. Time is made of moments.
The present is today.
New day and new grace.
Today is my precious time on earth.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#40. In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles."
"What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#41. What's under here?" He toyed with the hem of my shirt.
"You've forgotten already?"
He dragged my T-shirt over my head and tossed it aside. "Oh, breasts. Best present ever. Thanks, pumpkin.
Kylie Scott
#43. Paths that lead to the crossroads of life; otherwise known as "transition."
Transition is the tension present between struggle and grace.
Deborah Brodie
#44. One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North
personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)
Marshall McLuhan
#45. What we did yesterday, Can be changed today to make tomorrow different.. PAST / PRESENT / FUTURE
Precious Present Moments Light Our Path
Jonathan Bailey
#46. Wisely the Hebrews admit no Present tense in their language;
While we are speaking the word, it is is already the Past.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#47. All of you, all who are present
consider me worthy of pity, do you
not? Good God! When I think of what I was on the point of doing, I
consider that I am to be envied.
Victor Hugo
#48. Who controls the past now controls the future
Who controls the present now controls the past
Who controls the past now controls the future
Who controls the present now?
Zack De La Rocha
#49. Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form ... The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.
[Referring to studying fossil remains of the weevil, largely unchanged to the present day.]
Jean-Henri Fabre
#50. Why Your Penis is a Gift
Think of the past as your left pocket,
the future as your right pocket ~
which leaves your penis as the present.
Beryl Dov
#51. 12
Lose Battles, But Win The War: Grand Strategy
Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.
Robert Greene
#52. Happiness is like rising bubbles
delightful and inevitably fleeting. Joy is the oxygen
ever present.
Danielle LaPorte
#53. I felt a rush of trust
felt that life might be not just tolerable but beautiful, if I could only remember to find the bare Present.
David James Duncan
#54. Whenever a soul is brutalized, cleansing and healing must happen. But
you are strong, Quinn. You learn from the past and the present, but you do not
let it dictate your future. You let it guide you, inspire you and instruct you
only.
Joey W. Hill
#55. Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out and touch it, it is all there and all ours for the taking.
Cecilia to Henry Chinaski, liberty taken changing past tense to present tense (173)
Charles Bukowski
#56. Time ...
Once it's gone, it belongs to the past.
We do not hold on to the now, and
We do not treasure the future ...
We keep receiving this present, but we never open and cherish it until it is too late.
Until it comes no more.
Michelle Horst
#57. Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where the animal lives all the time
surrendered to life.
Eckhart Tolle
#58. There's no such thing as a minor lapse of awareness. You're either present with what is
right here, right now
or you're someplace else.
Gay Hendricks
#59. Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that is the key
Karen Hackel
#60. Are you really an orphan?
Yes, I am, said Portia a shade shortly. Are you?
No, not at present, but I suppose it's a thing one is bound to be.
Elizabeth Bowen
#61. Fortune favors the brave."
Another moment of silence. And then, Iolanthe found herself shouting at the top of her lungs, her voice nearly drowned by the bellow of all the rebels present, "And the brave make their own fortune!
Sherry Thomas
#62. The past is every second of your life up until now. Up until NOW. See how quickly the present is gobbled up by the past?
The present is ... Sorry, it's already gone. Hmm, it was just there a minute ago.
Evan Kuhlman
#63. An echo from the past when, innocent
We looked upon the present with delight
And doubted not the future would be kinder
And never knew the loneliness of night.
Noel Coward
#64. Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.
-Soothsayer
KungFuPandaMakers
#65. We run through the remnants of our pain, and more importantly, we run for our present and for our future.
Together we kick heartbreak's ass.
Jessica Park
#66. Sent as a present from Annam
A red cockatoo.
Coloured like the peach-tree blossom,
Speaking with the speech of men.
And they did to it what is always done
To the learned and eloquent.
They took a cage with stout bars
And shut it up inside.
Bai Juyi
#67. The only thing that keeps us rooted in the past is our refusal to embrace the present.
Dude, you gotta hug it with both arms and legs and hold on tight! The present is all we've got. That's why they call it a present!
Karen Marie Moning
#68. They would no longer be time-bound, that they were free to live in the future, the past, in fantasy.
She had been a woman preparing to live, not living.
Kiana Davenport
#69. It's not that I can't express myself,
it's that I still feel present when I'm not expressing myself.
Kim Myungsoo
#70. We praise times past, while we times present use;
Yet due the worship which to each we give.
Ovid
#71. I have a present for you."
He raised his eye brows. "I don't like your surprises."
"You'll like this one. Close your eyes.
Mav Skye
#73. The past and the present wilt. I have fill'd them, emptied them,
And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.
Walt Whitman
#74. Omg! To the past.
Omg! To the present.
Omg! To the future.
It's life. Don't give up!
Touaxia Vang
#75. At its heart shamanism is an ouroboros that, regardless of
cultural or religious trappings that have crowded its path, what
remains its critically profound gift to the present lies in its
simplistic roots of the past.
S. Kelley Harrell
#76. The present was perfect and I was
going to stay in it for as long as possible.
Alison G. Bailey
#77. The present moment is a conspiracy of the total universe.
To resist it is to resist the universe.
Let go and flow.
Deepak Chopra
#78. The most important hour is always the present.
The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now.
The most necessary work is always love.
Meister Eckhart
#79. And chiefly thou, O spirit, that dost prefer
Before all temples the upright heart and pure,
Instruct me, for thou know'st. Thou from the first
Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread,
Dove-like sattest brooding on the vast abyss,
And madst it pregnant.
John Milton
#80. I wish the trees would go into leaf that I might find out what they are. In their present undress I cannot recognise them. It's true that I doubt if I should know my best friends
men or women
with their clothes off.
Laura Lafargue
#81. In the present circumstances, no one can afford to assume that someone else
will solve their problems. Every individual has a responsibility to help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes are not sufficient; we must become actively engaged.
Dalai Lama
#82. - I believe in unlimited discovery and achievement.
- I believe that dreams can become reality.
- I believe in true love.
- I believe in kindness and intelligence.
- I trust life, regardless.
Elysse Poetis
#83. For we, which now behold these present days,
Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.
William Shakespeare
#84. Come in,
come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!
Charles Dickens
#85. In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.
This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me.
N.K. Jemisin
#86. Atlas said, 'Must my future be so heavy?'
Hera said, 'That is your present, Atlas. Your future hardens every day, but it is not fixed.'
'How can I escape my fate?'
'You must choose your destiny.
Jeanette Winterson
#88. You can't know what it is like for us now
you will always be one step behind.
Be thankful for that.
You can't know what it was like for us then
you will always be one step ahead.
Be thankful for that, too.
David Levithan
#89. Rather than standing defiant screaming to the winds to bring the storm,
be focused, grateful for the time to prepare and learn to harness it.
Tom Althouse
#91. The Past
the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf
the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?
Walt Whitman
#92. Tis good for men to love their present pains
Upon example; so the spirit is eas'd :
And when the mind is quicken'd, out of doubt
The organs, though defunct and dead before,
Break up their drowsy grave, and newly move
With casted slough and fresh legerity.
William Shakespeare
#93. People always complain that they can't do this and they can't do that."
"If we look at our lives and concentrate on things that we don't have or wish to have, that doesn't change the circumstances. The truth is that we have to focus on what we have and make the best out of it.
Nick Vujicic
#94. It is indeed the duty of historians to stress the contrast between
the standards of the past and the standards of the present. Some
fulfil that duty on purpose, others by accident.
Norman Davies
#95. If people tell you that
you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe
them. Real Life is found only in the present.
Leo Tolstoy
#96. No man will be present in those mysteries,
yet all men will kneel,
no man will be potent,
important,
yet all men will feel
what it is to be a woman.
Hilda Doolittle
#97. Awareness cannot be at the end of a process
because the very striving, and the process itself,
is arising and appearing in the Awareness
which is timelessly present.
Mooji
#98. All we have is
the present. The present's perfect, young
grasshopper, because we're breathing,
moving, laughing, crying, and are
surprised when we finally meet someone
we connect with. Stop living in the past
and wasting your present. You need to
tell Noah how you feel.
Alison G. Bailey
#99. Everything in our lives," she said quietly, "leads to everything else in our lives. So a moment in the present has a reference point, both in the past and in the future. I want you to know that you
as you are right now and as you ever will be
are fully enough for this moment ...
Elizabeth George
#100. I miss your silent stature, your avoided days of disaster, your present state of distress.
I'm cinnamon, cloves and fire, you are the rested cedarwood of desire.
Coco J. Ginger
