present, the quotes

- 10 of 85 Results
If you have wine today, get drunk today; worry about tomorrow's worries tomorrow.
The present cannot compare with the past.
These wonderful things
Were planted on the surface of a round mind that was to become our present time.
Long ago was the then beginning to seem like now
As now is but the setting out on a new but still
Undefined way.
I say this because there is an uneasiness in things just now. Waiting for something to be over before you are forced to notice it. ...
The ellipse is as aimless as that,
Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear
...
The purity of today will invest us like a breeze,
Only be hard, spare, ironical: something one can
...
That the end is not far off since it will occur
In the present and this is the present.
yet there was a chance in this
To see the present as it never had existed,
...
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its ...
1 2 3 NEXT
The Columbia World of Quotations © 1996, Columbia University Press.
Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Except as otherwise permitted by written agreement, the following are prohibited: copying substantial portions or the entirety of the work in machine readable form, making multiple printouts thereof, and other uses of the work inconsistent with U.S. and applicable foreign copyright and related laws.
Copyright ©  2013 Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
About PRIVACY POLICY Terms API Careers Advertise with Us Contact Us Suggest a Word Help