There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.
If the present Mrs. Wogan has a fault - and I must tread carefully here - if she has a fault, this gem in the diadem of womanhood is a hoarder. She never throws anything out. Which may explain the longevity of our marriage.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the present.
For an international business such as ours, you can't localise without a local. That was a hard lesson for us. We had to be closer, physically present, which is when we put teams on the ground.
Harnessing the power of the present means having your full awareness on the task at hand and having access to the possibilities, the opportunities, and the support that exists right now.
Even though I present as heterosexual, I've been all over the planet sexually and proud of that and never tried to hide it.
Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.
I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.
I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.
Hospitality is present when something happens for you. It is absent when something happens to you. Those two simple prepositions - for and to - express it all.
Our present nuclear fusion reactors are classified by the methods used to support the nuclear fusion reaction, which takes place at a temperature much hotter than the surface of the Sun.
The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.
For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.
