There Is No Time Like The Present Quotes

#1. There is no time like the present to present the present

Ronald B. Adler

#2. There Is No Time Like The Present.

Behnam Rajabpoor

#3. Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

Harri Holkeri

#4. Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

Albert Einstein

#5. When I present or speak, I write the slides myself. And regarding time, I would like to be able to publish more than I do.

Padmasree Warrior

#6. Late
for the present, I suppose

accentuated each time
you see, quick enough
this fraction of earth
underfoot

that upright speech
imprints,
like the whole of being
resumes

We've hit on something like lightning strikes

Deborah Heissler

#7. Feel like the bright past is coming through the gray present and I want to look at it one more time.

Mary Gaitskill

#8. There's no time like the present: if you are going to do something you should do it now, not wait for some future time.

Jenny Smith

#9. One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.

Michael Emerson

#10. The going was rough, and it was time to get going. There was no time like the present, because the early bird catches the worm.

Nicholas Sparks

#11. I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.

Henry Rollins

#12. I don't need protection." Not that she minded, of course. She always protected. It's what she did every moment of the day, and that small span of time when he'd protected her had been, well like a present.
"Don't need it, no." He gave her the coordinates, and she got moving. "Deservie it, yes.

Lauren Dane

#13. I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still happening. The past, the present, and the future, in the noggin eternally, like brushes, combs and ribbons in a handbag.

Sebastian Barry

#14. I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer.

Dan Quisenberry

#15. The rest of the universe is like the coin. The events of
the past appear to cause the present, but every time we pop
back into existence we are subject to a new set of probabilities.
Literally anything can happen.

Scott Adams

#16. No time like the present

Jeffrey Archer

#17. The blessing hands of Christ are like a roof that protects us. But at the same time, they are a gesture of opening up, tearing the world open so that heaven my enter in, may become "present" within it.

Pope Benedict XVI

#18. In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

Abraham Lincoln

#19. The past and present are after all so close, almost one, as if time were an artificial teasing out of a material which longs to join, to interpenetrate, and to become heavy and very small like some of those heavenly bodies scientists tell us of.

Iris Murdoch

#20. Once illness strikes, you realize there's not a lot of time for you to do what you really need to do. And there's no time like the present.

Rufus Wainwright

#21. The working class did not rise like the sun at an appointed time. It was present at its own making.

E.P. Thompson

#22. There's no time like the present to love deeply, claim our power and live our purpose!

Kristi Bowman

#23. If I could somehow know the future,
then now should not be like this time.

Toba Beta

#24. So it seems like all of history is concurrent. Its not a linear series of events. Its all happening simultaneously. There is one moment, and that moment is now, and we are always present in it.So Im not reenacting history so much as just living every time at once.

Leila Sales

#25. Because we believe that one moment is more or less like the next, we lose touch with the essential urgency of the present, the fact that each passing moment is the one moment for the practice of freedom.

Robert Grudin

#26. How many of the original songs survive intact from the slave cabins? Probably not many in their original form. Time has transformed them like light in a prism. What we hope to present is a version of those spirituals, and they speak not just to black Americans, but to people worldwide.

Kathleen Battle

#27. THE MISCONCEPTION: Memories are played back like recordings. THE TRUTH: Memories are constructed anew each time from whatever information is currently available, which makes them highly permeable to influences from the present.

David McRaney

#28. I try to present something that is full of time. Not timeless, but full of time. I never like a work where we try to update it, but it's still not interesting to see a work that is dated. If one is successful, then a work can be full of time. And time is very complex.

Robert Wilson

#29. When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder.

Ruth Ozeki

#30. Swift flies our time on pinions fleet, Like vapours on the breeze; The transient bliss we now call sweet, The passing moments seize. The gilded joy, the present hour, Soon wing themselves away; Departing like the fading flower That pleas'd us Yesterday.

William Muir

#31. Like a dart the present glances,
Silent stands the past sublime.

Friedrich Schiller

#32. It must also be noted that until the present time this malady, like religious controversy, has been wholly confined to the continent of Europe.

Voltaire

#33. Because freedom, it turned out, wasn't like a new shoe: you didn't need to break it in. It felt comfortable the first time you tried it on. It wasn't the present that pinched, it was the past.

Dale Peck

#34. I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.

John Cusack