Top 100 No Present Sayings

#1. But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses

Muriel Barbery

No Present Sayings #1121
#2. If today shows no results, that doesn't mean the past wasn't working or the present isn't working. It just means we see only part of the picture. Faith believes God is working in every part of the process.

Deb Brammer

No Present Sayings #2642
#3. You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.

Henry David Thoreau

No Present Sayings #5792
#4. There is giving, and there is knowingness. Some have generosity and compassion but no true knowledge. Some have knowledge but no self-sacrifice. When both are present, that person is blessed and prosperous. Such a being is truly incomparable.

Rumi

No Present Sayings #7559
#5. In ancient times people mistook us for gods, but we peculiars are no less mortal than common folk. Time loops merely delay the inevitable, and the price we pay for using them is hefty - an irrevocable divorce from the ongoing present.

Ransom Riggs

No Present Sayings #15862
#6. As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of Baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present.

Martin Chemnitz

No Present Sayings #16583
#7. I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.

Aneurin Bevan

No Present Sayings #17886
#8. There exists only the present instant ... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

Meister Eckhart

No Present Sayings #21571
#9. Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.

Harry Browne

No Present Sayings #29226
#10. Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of things, the past and present somehow coalescing or co-existing.

W.G. Sebald

No Present Sayings #29319
#11. No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.

Mahatma Gandhi

No Present Sayings #32915
#12. A reliable indicator we have entered present moment awareness is if our experience, no matter how comfortable or uncomfortable it may feel at any given moment, is infused with gratefulness.

Michael Brown

No Present Sayings #33638
#13. The sling is to a rifle what the holster is to a pistol. If you have a sling, chances are you will keep the rifle with you. If there is no sling present, you will set the rifle down. When you are at the absolutely farthest point away from the rifle that you can possibly get, you'll need it.

Clint Smith

No Present Sayings #33681
#14. Perhaps that's why I find myself looking backward. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.

Kristin Hannah

No Present Sayings #41255
#15. Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Susan Sontag

No Present Sayings #43599
#16. 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

No Present Sayings #48930
#17. The present time of believers is no longer determined by the past. It takes its definition from the future.

Jurgen Moltmann

No Present Sayings #49315
#18. I have no time to look back. My heart is dancing in the present moment feeling the joy of life.

Debasish Mridha

No Present Sayings #59729
#19. There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, in one's vision of the past.

Paula Fox

No Present Sayings #62269
#20. If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.

Simon Conway Morris

No Present Sayings #62502
#21. Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind.

Joseph Campbell

No Present Sayings #65308
#22. Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.

Breyten Breytenbach

No Present Sayings #66765
#23. Time was just a hangover from the past with no present meaning

Norman Maclean

No Present Sayings #68438
#24. There is no correlation between the degree of comfort enjoyed and the achievement of a civilization. On the contrary, absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.

Richard M. Weaver

No Present Sayings #69071
#25. No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God.

Roger Williams

No Present Sayings #71813
#26. When we say something, our subjective intention or situation is always involved. So there is no perfect word; some distortion is always present in a statement.

Shunryu Suzuki

No Present Sayings #74213
#27. The young should not think of themselves as immature and the elderly need not view themselves as feeble. Our minds control our bodies. Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into naka-ima - the eternal present.

H.E. Davey

No Present Sayings #75470
#28. I'm no longer interested in making political films. There's something old-fashioned about them. Young people now don't care for politics. It isn't present in life as it used to be. And increasingly I like films which reflect present-day reality.

Bernardo Bertolucci

No Present Sayings #77393
#29. Admitting pain humbles us to the reality of our personal histories and our present conditions. We no longer have to pretend we are something that we are not.

Steven Franssen

No Present Sayings #78147
#30. Guston tacked toward celebrating the crap of life not for its own ironic sake, but as the ever-present still life that surrounds the embarrassingly, even tragically human. No Duchampian object is ever tragic. Many if not most of Guston's objects, even the most hilarious, are.

Ross Feld

No Present Sayings #78424
#31. I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.

Vincent Van Gogh

No Present Sayings #78667
#32. I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live.

Gerard Depardieu

No Present Sayings #81309
#33. I knew it," she snapped. "You're no different from all men. You're just another jerk pretending to be single! I didn't wanna wrap a lie into a Christmas present anyway.

Maha Erwin

No Present Sayings #82401
#34. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No Present Sayings #86712
#35. My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite.

Amy Tan

No Present Sayings #88780
#36. In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.

George Bernard Shaw

No Present Sayings #94201
#37. No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.

Henry David Thoreau

No Present Sayings #94226
#38. I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.

Keith Briffa

No Present Sayings #96811
#39. 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

No Present Sayings #97825
#40. There is no past, memory paints it,' " the pope recited. " 'There is no future, for hope shapes it. There is only the present, but it is always escaping us.

David I. Kertzer

No Present Sayings #101763
#41. No amount of study of present forms [of life] would permit us to infer [the existence of] dinosaurs

Max Delbruck

No Present Sayings #103326
#42. Enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by

Jane Austen

No Present Sayings #103444
#43. There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

Simone Weil

No Present Sayings #104585
#44. 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

No Present Sayings #104986
#45. Whitman's poems present no trace of rhyme, save in a couple or so of chance instances. Parts of them, indeed, may be regarded as a warp of prose amid the weft of poetry,

Walt Whitman

No Present Sayings #110229
#46. One lives in the very present moment; lives intently. There is no urge to be doing: being is the highest good.

Patrick O'Brian

No Present Sayings #110292
#47. There is no bad.. nor good.. there just is.. and that is the present moment. How does that look.. depends on where you are along the journey.. Blink.. and the perception can change.

Jonathan Bailey

No Present Sayings #111677
#48. I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.

Elbert Hubbard

No Present Sayings #113797
#49. When you forgive those that hurt you, they no longer have control over your future happiness. Their anger keeps them a prisoner to your past, while you enjoy the present.

Shannon L. Alder

No Present Sayings #114659
#50. There is no mystery. Truth is here - always present. Mystery is in the mind and mind is a myth.

Rashmit Kalra

No Present Sayings #116026
#51. The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.

Lenny Bruce

No Present Sayings #117004
#52. If I could only teach you one thing about the world, it would be to Appreciate and be as present as possible in every moment. Take everything in and try and learn from it. No matter how tangled things get, there is always a lesson to be learned in the untangling of those things.

Bethany Brookbank

No Present Sayings #122261
#53. Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

Oscar Wilde

No Present Sayings #124410
#54. We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.

Simone De Beauvoir

No Present Sayings #124709
#55. We must help each other to be present and compassionate. Remember that we have no idea what the person next to us is going through; compassion is the only choice.

Alysia Reiner

No Present Sayings #127936
#56. No man bears more responsibility for the present worldwide financial crisis and coming depression than Alan Greenspan.

Bill Bonner

No Present Sayings #127980
#57. History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

Aidan Chambers

No Present Sayings #135752
#58. No one can or will ever feel your pain as much as you. Forgive yourself for the past, seize the gift of the present moment.

K.J. Kilton

No Present Sayings #140619
#59. Poison ivy, because who needed a case of that on your pecker). We're all here in Derry. No camp, no relatives, no vacations, no AWAY. All right here. Present and accounted for. There's

Stephen King

No Present Sayings #140940
#60. This was my attempt to deter cold callers: "There's no past, there's no future, just one pulsating present ... Please leave your message after the tone."

Bill Bailey

No Present Sayings #142868
#61. If you take good care of the present, there is no need to worry about the future.

Thich Nhat Hanh

No Present Sayings #146515
#62. I myself, to be sure - I have as yet seen no great man. That which is great, the acutest eye is at present insensible to it. It is the kingdom of the populace.

Friedrich Nietzsche

No Present Sayings #147870
#63. The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.

Kate Chopin

No Present Sayings #148303
#64. But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.

Kanye West

No Present Sayings #149256
#65. Religious teachings and teachers have conditioned us to think of faith as a magic catalyst that makes God work for us. In no way does faith make God work nor does it release some kind of miracle power. Faith simply tunes into and turns on the divine flow that has always been present

Eric Butterworth

No Present Sayings #149590
#66. 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

No Present Sayings #150978
#67. No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

Jamaica Kincaid

No Present Sayings #151546
#68. History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

John F. Kennedy

No Present Sayings #152678
#69. Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.

John C. Maxwell

No Present Sayings #153353
#70. Art can no longer be art today if it does not reach into the heart of our present culture and work transformatively within it that is, an art which cannot mould society - and through this naturally operate upon the core questions of our society - is not art.

Joseph Beuys

No Present Sayings #156949
#71. It is not the function of religion to answer all the questions about God's moral government of the universe, but to give us courage through faith to go on in the face of questions to which we find no answer in our present status.

Harold B. Lee

No Present Sayings #159529
#72. But the love of sisters needs no words. It does not depend on memories, or mementos, or proof. It runs as deep as a heartbeat. It is as ever present as a pulse.

Lisa Wingate

No Present Sayings #159829
#73. 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

No Present Sayings #163201
#74. The oldest thing of all is the present, because there's never been anything else but present. No one has ever lived in the past, and no one lives in the future, either.

Harry Mulisch

No Present Sayings #166248
#75. Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.

Henry Moore

No Present Sayings #168529
#76. And I will never again underestimate the power of anticipation. There is no better boost in the present than an invitation into the future.

Caroline Kepnes

No Present Sayings #168843
#77. If you feel stuck in your present life, if you feel no enthusiasm for anything, if you think you have no purpose or that you lost that purpose somewhere along the way, I guarantee you are living in a dungeon made of stories. And that none of those limiting stories are true.

Martha Beck

No Present Sayings #173175
#78. I can't help it; present me with a situation, and I have to think about both sides of it. I can try to suppress it, but I cannot shut off the way I think. Once knowledge is gained, there's no going back to ignorance. I think about what the other feels. I can't stop it,

Mercedes Lackey

No Present Sayings #174670
#79. I would alter nothing of the journey made for it is in this road travelled that the sweetest of lessons are learnt.

Truth Devour

No Present Sayings #176242
#80. As far as you are concerned the present is your point of action, focus and power, and from that point of volition you form both your future and past. Realizing this, you will understand that you are not at the mercy of a past over which you have no control.

Seth

No Present Sayings #182487
#81. I had an argument with my students on why they want to present their work in an iBook, it's like your sister who has no design training, put on some outfits in the bedroom, took some pictures, sent them to Apple and after paying 40 quid, you have a portfolio! I can't believe it.

Louise Wilson

No Present Sayings #187192
#82. At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit ... No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by man, would make it healthy and a paradise; as the laws of man's own constitution but wait to be obeyed, to restore him to health and happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

No Present Sayings #187459
#83. Man, like every other animal, has no doubt advanced to his present high condition through a struggle for existence consequent on his multiplication; and if he is to advance still higher, it is to be feared that he must remain subject to a severe struggle.

Charles Darwin

No Present Sayings #189345
#84. There are those nights where you are just so emotionally present that you crack yourself open. And it works. And on the nights when you don't have it in you because you're tired or you've got no voice, you still are able to do your job and tell the story that people have come to hear.

Staceyann Chin

No Present Sayings #193332
#85. You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.

Gloria Steinem

No Present Sayings #195092
#86. The present educational establishment, to cite just one group, has been obscuring the past so that our children have no way of comparing the facts of history with the distorted version promoted by biased secular historians.

Gary DeMar

No Present Sayings #196442
#87. There is no better boost in the present than an invitation to the future.

Caroline Kepnes

No Present Sayings #196753
#88. No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.

Laurie Colwin

No Present Sayings #197289
#89. He wished he could somehow go back and find the iPhone people whom he'd jostled on the sidewalk earlier, apologize to them - I'm sorry, I've just realized that I'm as minimally present in this world as you are, I had no right to judge -

Emily St. John Mandel

No Present Sayings #197306
#90. No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell the remoter effects, and so to allow us to avoid such acts as attempt to remedy a present ill by sowing the seeds of a much greater ill for the future.

Ludwig Von Mises

No Present Sayings #200387
#91. I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, 'Judy, we need a title.'

Judy Blume

No Present Sayings #200574
#92. Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting at a point which is no-time, a theoretical crossroads fictitiously 'present,' an unstable ice floe forever drifting between was and will be.

Sol Luckman

No Present Sayings #205301
#93. Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation ...

Aldous Huxley

No Present Sayings #206041
#94. 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

No Present Sayings #210036
#95. I had to make a large number of changes to clear Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) up, it took years to figure it out. I kept on making change after change until one day I realized that EHS was no longer present.

Steven Magee

No Present Sayings #213526
#96. 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

No Present Sayings #216746
#97. 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

No Present Sayings #219575
#98. The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.

Malcolm X

No Present Sayings #220941
#99. Normally, one is only conscious of the room around one, but when no-one else is present, one's awareness is free to fill all the space.

Laurie R. King

No Present Sayings #223335
#100. Don't let the darkness of your past block the light of joy in your present. What happened is done. Stop giving time to things that no longer exist when there is so much joy to be found in the here and now.

Karen Salmansohn

No Present Sayings #225293

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