Presentism Quotes

#1. If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

Douglas Rushkoff

#2. The historian, like everyone else, is forever trapped in the egocentric predicament, and 'presentism' is his original sin.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

#3. Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for this one was the New York Herald.

Harold Holzer

#4. When the Zetas fill the sky,
Will our leaders tell us why?
Fully loaded satellites,
Will conquer nothing but our minds.

Matthew J. Bellamy

#5. For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.

Marco Rubio

#6. We think that time is changing, but that may not be true. Everything else is changing and time is standing still and watching.

Debasish Mridha

#7. Deepen and broaden your awareness of yourself and all the blessings will flow. You need not seek anything, all will come to you most naturally and effortlessly.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#8. I have a coffee mug that my dad gave me years ago that has the San Mateo police logo and my dad's name on it, so I brought it to set and used it in a scene. I mean, you don't see it, it's not prominently featured, but I just wanted that connectivity.

Michael Trucco

#9. It's hard for me to believe that I will die. Because I'm bubbling in a frigid freshness. My life is going to be very long because each instant is. The impression is that I'm still to be born and I can't quite manage it.

Clarice Lispector

#10. You don't have to destroy me. Do you? ...

Ernest Hemingway,

#11. Remember that stories are more than just words, more than fairy tales. They are magic.

Valya Dudycz Lupescu

#12. Rather than pound or a national mind that he believed had been closed by his critics, John Quincy Adams decided to seek a place in the is the esteem of future generations.

Paul C. Nagel

#13. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.

Susan Sontag

#14. She always said we were guests. Intruders. I believed her, but I didn't really consider it. This world was not ours. It hadn't been for a very long time. Sleeping

Lauren Nicolle Taylor

#15. Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.

Randy Alcorn

#16. It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.

Walter Kaufmann

#17. Jesus, Hope. You have ruined me. I love you so much.

Cheryl McIntyre

#18. Without problems don't exist,if they do exist then they are useless

Themba Alex Khumalo

#19. A fully positive relationship between Christians and Jews is one that would elide all differences.

David Novak

#20. A man ... must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.

Jane Austen

#21. The bed under my back is filled with broken clouds and freshly fallen snow; it's too soft, too comfortable.

Tahereh Mafi