Top 100 My Present Quotes
#1. I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession ... to create a living religion in landscape painting.
Christopher Pearse Cranch
#2. I've learned to relax and be my present age and my present position. I feel comfortable on my mid-thirties. It doesn't seem such an alien place to be.
David Bowie
#3. As the two of us - past self, my present self - hovered over her bed, I could see each cruel damage written across her skin, beneath her eyes, down into her bones. She was no longer the way she wanted to be remembered. She was already more breath than body.
David Levithan
#4. So I was officially sixteen. For my present, I got cornered by Uncle Freaky, who announced that I was marked for assassination.
Rick Riordan
#5. When in my present lonely lot, I feel my past has not been free From sins which I remember not, I dread more, what to come, may be.
Murasaki Shikibu
#6. But sometimes I see instead the young girl's face I once spent so much time rearranging and deploring, drowned and floating just beneath my present face,
Margaret Atwood
#7. You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.
Neil Simon
#8. Now, my present, has arrived, and it's you.
Paulo Coelho
#9. Instead, the act of going back made new memories, and everytime I went I would add another layer on top of her memory, until eventually I'd buried them completely and all of those places stopped being about my past with her and became my present.
Cecelia Ahern
#10. I need to acknowledge that she may have controlled my past, but she doesn't have to dominate my present and my future, too
Carolyn Mackler
#11. I had rather be in my grave than in my present situation, I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world; and yet they charge me with wanting to be a king.
George Washington
#12. I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.
Colin Firth
#13. She would be shocked if she knew how much of her past has affected my present, which
Colleen Hoover
#14. The receding perspective of my past smothers my present. Remembering is the malignancy that feasts on my now.
Rabih Alameddine
#15. But for someone like me, who moved into an entirely different world when still quite young, it's as if a deep gap divides my past and my present.
Minae Mizumura
#16. I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present.
Steve Maraboli
#17. And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.
Sophocles
#18. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past. He cares as little for what will be as for what has been; he cares only for what ought to be. And for my present purpose I specially insist on this abstract independence.
G.K. Chesterton
#19. I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race. The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies ...
Ernest Rutherford
#20. Aren't you at all curious about your past?" Rhys asked.
"No, my present is who I am. Your identity is whoever you choose to be, not who your parents were."
"But as a scientist you know that prior events influence it, and the future."
"In physics, yes. In people, no.
Jeffrey Perren
#21. I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.
Don Herold
#22. In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.
George Washington
#23. You gave me Christopher Robin, and then
You breathed new life in Pooh.
Whatever of each has left my pen
Goes homing back to you.
My book is ready, and comes to greet
The mother it longs to see
It would be my present to you, my sweet,
If it weren't your gift to me.
A.A. Milne
#24. You were the best birthday present I ever got."
"Thank you."
"I wanted to give you something back, but I've got to warn you that it's not half as good as my present. Even so, you have to keep it."
"All right."
He draped the pink bow around his neck and grinned. "Happy birthday, Rosebud.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#25. A spectator would conclude that I was living in the past. But I was very much living in the present. My present.
Fennel Hudson
#26. In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my present role as a gadfly, to use my soapbox to promote my various ideas and obsesions.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#27. I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.
Thomas Hardy
#28. As many Europeans and other people from other countries, I have been led into my present activity by a very specific American gift of trade.
Emilio Pucci
#29. One Valentine's Day I woke up to find that my husband had laid a trail of red hearts from the bed and halfway around the house to my present. The gift was small because we didn't have much money but I was touched to the heart by the effort he had made to surprise and please me.
Lynne Graham
#30. I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible.
Edmund Burke
#31. The good news is that you may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you havce no control over my future. You don't know me at all.
David Klass
#32. Forgotten history. You, however, are my present. (Varyk)
Oh, goody. Do I have to wear a bow? (Fang)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#33. 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, encountered on my way?
Roland Barthes
#34. You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw ... nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?
Jerry Spinelli
#35. From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing in disguise for it has taught me to appreciate the inestimable value of introspection in the preservation of life, as well as a means of achievement.
Nikola Tesla
#36. You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.
David Klass
#37. I love to drive. My present to myself from 'The Tudors' was a red Mazda MX5 hard-top convertible. I loved that car, and also what she represented - my first success.
Natalie Dormer
#38. A kiss is one of the few futuristic events that comes to my present everyday..
Jai Prakash
#39. You're my present and my future Sadie, I will use whatever power I have to make you happy.
Abbi Glines
#40. My biggest life lesson is that the past is the past. I do my best not to bring history into my present. It ain't ever easy, but it usually creates more opportunity for joyful experiences.
Dash Mihok
#41. Financial security is a constant in my life. I allow my income to constantly expand, no matter what the newspapers and economists say. I move beyond my present income, and I go beyond the economic forecasts. I do not listen to people out there telling me how far I can go or what I can do.
Louise Hay
#42. I entertain the idea that if my present life is the punishment for a former life, then I would never want to meet myself as the self of this former life.
Sam Pink
#43. I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.
Richard Ernst
#44. Nobody lives forever, nobody stays young long enough. My past seemed like so much excess baggage, my future a series of long goodbyes, my present an empty flask, the last good drink already bitter on my tongue.
James Crumley
#45. You would never be past but you're my present, future & forever
Subhasis Das
#46. One thing my mom used to tell me was to look to the other side, and know that my present is not going to be everything. So if I'm having a bad day, she goes, 'Just imagine tomorrow. This is going to be over. This is going to be done with.'
Tyra Banks
#47. The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts to narrowness and insolence.
Harriet Martineau
#48. You're my past, my present, and my future. You're my life, Anna. I love you.
Samantha Chase
#49. My present Profession is Physick - Now, when my Pockets are full, I cure a Patient in three Days; when they are empty, I keep him three Months.
Susanna Centlivre
#50. The church of my own childhood, as well as that of my present and my future, comprises deeply flawed human beings struggling toward an unattainable ideal.
Philip Yancey
#51. I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#52. Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).
Alfred Marshall
#53. Do you know that I love now to recall and visit at certain dates the places where I
was once happy in my own way? I love to build up my present in harmony with the irrevocable past ...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#54. The past will forever be a part of my present as well as my future.
Anonymous
#55. The truth is that in my present life I don't remember that I ever was president
William Howard Taft
#56. I shall hold myself particularly answerable to my constituents for my present conduct, and in general to all my fellow Citizens throughout these States, when properly questioned.
Henry Laurens
#57. Keep Looking Up was my life's admonition
I can do little else in my present position.
Jack Horkheimer
#58. Earlier in my college career, there was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the Black community I was somehow obligated to this community and would utilize all of my present and future resources to benefit this community first and foremost.
Michelle Obama
#59. I am surprised you shd. say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these wd. be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
#60. The chill of what I won't feel gnaws at my present heart.
Fernando Pessoa
#61. Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#62. What does it mean that my past is a fog but my present is brilliant, bursting with sound and color?
Isaac Marion
#63. No matter where I am in my life, no matter what I am doing, I will never be far from you in my heart. I may be moving on, but I'm not moving away from you. You will always be in my soul, a part of my present, and a fleeting dream for my future." ~Emma Ranstein
Lindsay Detwiler
#64. My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's land between the country of my past and the continent of my present.
Bharati Mukherjee
#65. I wasn't born to love you. I was born to lose you. You are my sad song. My melancholy mix. You were my past until you crashed into my present. But you will never be my future.
Katie Kacvinsky
#66. Classical works; all (of course) immeasurably superior to anything produced in later times; and all (from my present point of view) possessing the one great merit of enchaining nobody's interest, and exciting nobody's brain.
Wilkie Collins
#67. In my present life from day to day, I attempt to improve my understanding of God by responding to Him in three basic ways: by moving outwards into positive action, by exercising my ability to choose positive thoughts, and by allowing myself to be drawn inwards to positive being.
A.A. World Services Inc.
#68. The beauty of America is that I don't have to deny my past to affirm my present. No one does. We can love this nation like a parent and still embrace our ancestral home like cherished grandparents.
Mario Cuomo
#69. I had to decide in the next few seconds: Would I let my past keep screwing up my present and my future?
Jeri Smith-Ready
#70. And I was next to a boy I'd started thinking of as more than a stranger, more than a friend. He was somewhere in between my future and my present, I just didn't have a word for him yet. Other than safe.
He was my safety.
He was what made me feel protected.
Rachel Higginson
#71. I am trying to describe these things not to relive them in my present boundless misery, but to sort out the portion of hell and the portion of heaven in that strange, awful, maddening world- nymphet love. (135)
Vladimir Nabokov
#72. Over the last several days, I'd done a fair amount of practiced focusing on my present state of "lesness" - homelessness, joblessness and relationshiplessness. Less was not more. Less was an unstable, uncomfortable place to be.
Penny Reid
#73. I am happy with my past, my present and my future. All three are miraculous building blocks of my beloved, wonderful life.
Robert Muller
#74. I wish I could talk to twenty-three-year-old Sarah again. Ten-year-old Sarah doesn't understand my struggle. She hasn't come to this yet. She hasn't come to the place where my present means nothing but my future is all everyone talks about. Twenty-three-year-old
A.S. King
#75. In 1970 I felt so lonely that I could not give; now I feel so joyful that giving seems easy. I hope that the day will come when the memory of my present joy will give me the strength to keep giving even when loneliness gnaws at my heart.
Henri Nouwen
#78. My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion; but when a healthy wind blows, they fall accordingly ...
Johann Sebastian Bach
#79. I hope I will get to novelize my present circumstances at some point. I have some great stories to tell.
Jon Weisman
#80. at the sky, thinking about space and time and my mother, who was both my past and my present, and who, for all I knew, was up there twinkling somewhere. He
Camille Pagan
#81. I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#82. She was my past, my present, my everything, and when the time came I'd make her my forever.
Angela McPherson
#83. You know my present way of life. Can you suggest any additions to it, in the way of crime, that will reasonably insure my going to some other place.
Mark Twain
#84. This is my present, also yours, free to choose. I am here at your side, alive, and no ghost. Let beauty and care forge the weapons tonight.
Janny Wurts
#85. I don't want you to have to handle it. That's the horror of my past. But you ... you're the reality of my present. You're the proof I survived. The prize in the cereal box.
J. Kenner
#86. I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
#88. Hello my Country I once came to tell everyone your story Your passion was my poetry And your past my most potent glory Your promise was my prayer Your hypocrisy my nightmare And your problems fill my present Are we both going somewhere?
Harry Chapin
#89. Dont judge me on my past but judge for my present,Love me as I will love you,Care for me as I will care for you' because I am your true friend as you are mine.
Michael Kedzlie
#90. May the Gods all preserve for me (until my present form ceases) this clear and sunlit view of external reality, the instinctive awareness of my unimportance, the cosiness of being small, and the solace of being able to imagine myself happy.
Fernando Pessoa
#91. When I'm feeling sad, or lonely, and I don't know what I'm doing and I don't know where I'm going, I imagine the Cool Awesome Future Version of Myself just telling my present self, "It's okay. You just gotta grab that giraffe by the ears and ride it on out."
Jenna Marbles
#92. One of the charges made against me is that I lived in the same house with my former husband, Dr. Woodhull, and my present husband, Col. Blood. The fact is a fact.
Victoria Woodhull
#93. It seems to me ... that I have always lived! I possess memories that go back to the Pharoahs. I see myself very clearly at different ages of history, practicing different professions ... My present personality is the result of my lost [past] personalities.
Gustave Flaubert
#94. My past, O Lord, to Your mercy; my present, to Your love; my future to Your providence.
Padre Pio
#95. Blake, your past is my past, your present is my present, and your future is my future. I bear the weight of everything that happens in your life. How can you not see that?
Claire Contreras
#96. If I've learned anything from my past and my present, it's the power of fear. You can give your subjects all the generosity in the world, and still they will demand more. But those who are afraid don't fight back. I know this well enough.
Marie Lu
#97. Notwithstanding my present incompetency, I am beginning to translate the New Testament, being extremely anxious to get some parts of Scripture, at least, into an intelligible shape, if for no other purpose than to read, as occasion offers, to the Burmans I meet with.
Adoniram Judson
#98. the ultimate determinant of my life has got nothing to do with neither my past nor my present but my aspirations, my tenacity to dare and to do; to leave a great and an indelible positive footprints on earth
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#99. And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.
Hart Crane
#100. The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy.
Elizabeth I
