In Eternal Life We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life. – P. D. James The Children of Men, Chapter 1.
Mirror Spock: One man cannot summon the future. Capt. James T. Kirk: But one man can change the present. Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Mirror, Mirror’.
‘Who controls the past’, ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ – George Orwell 1984. Part 1, Chapter 3. The Party rewrites history to serve its narrative, making it easier to maintain control of the population.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. – Henry David Thoreau
The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you. – Grimes
Most of the infections linked to human cancers are common in human populations; they are ubiquitous. They were present during the whole human evolution process. – Harald zur Hausen
I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn’t present the picture they would like. – George MacDonald Fraser
History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him. – Hilary Mantel
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. – Henri Bergson
China is an area where we need to be present. Lots of companies want to supply their products to China. – Gennady Timchenko
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing. – Herbert Spencer
I like to present something that the people haven’t seen or haven’t heard before. Otherwise they might as well just stay home and play the record. – Herbie Hancock
I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn’t know how to speak or be present with my peers. – Heather Matarazzo
The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people. – Gregor Strasser
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. – Havelock Ellis
If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered. – Gregor Strasser
Hard men present hard choices – none more so than Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia. – Hillary Clinton
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist. – George Saintsbury
At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified. – Havelock Ellis
Animals are the best actors. They never lie, they’re always present, and they listen. That’s a lot more than a lot of actors can say for themselves. – Graham Phillips
Coproporphyrin in particular is widespread; traces are present in normal urine and also in yeast. In special cultures, yeast can be made to produce considerable quantities of coproporphyrin. – Hans Fischer
In Christmas What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace. – Agnes M. Pharo
You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that. – Hans Blix
In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside. – Henri Bergson
We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s dam is the history we make today. – Henry Ford