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Past And Present Quotes (page 4)

C. S. Lewis quote: "Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear,..."
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead. C. S. Lewis
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. E. M. Forster
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. Alan Watts
My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative. Tommy Lee Jones
I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things. Tadao Ando
The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for. Dan Millman
Equally unthinkable among young men of today is a truly religious renunciation of the world, adhered to with daily self-denial. On the other hand almost any theological student is capable of something far more wonderful. He could found a society with the sole object of saving all those who are lost. The age of great and good actions is past, the present is the age of anticipation when even recognition is received in advance. Soren Kierkegaard
Grady felt a chill echo, the kind that comes when, in an original situation, one has the sensation of its all having occurred before: if we know the past, and live the present, is it possible that we dream the future? Truman Capote
America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version. America ducks the question of origins; it cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth. Having known no primitive accumulation of time, it lives in a perpetual present. Jean Baudrillard
Charles Dickens quote: "I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The..."
I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me. Charles Dickens
Bette Davis quote: "Life is the past, the present and the perhaps."
Life is the past, the present and the perhaps. Bette Davis
If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world. Alan Watts
Evelyn Waugh quote: "Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on..."
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all. Evelyn Waugh
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past,..."
Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future. Kurt Vonnegut
Paulo Coelho quote: "It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and..."
It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future. Paulo Coelho

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