Present Quotes
I do not regard the Communists as any present or future threat to our country. In fact, I look upon Russia as our strongest ally in the years to come.
Now, it should be incandescently clear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life of America today can ignore the present war.
Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present.
If we open a quarrel between past and present we shall find that we have lost the future.
The uncertainty and importance of the present reduce the past and future to comparative insignificance, and clear the mind of minor worries. And when all is over, memories remain which few men do not hold precious.
The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the Air. In no other way at present visible can we hope to overcome the immense military power of Germany.
But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.
If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.
You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.
Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.
There's no other time but the present. Anything else is a waste of time.
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.
Man, like every other animal, has no doubt advanced to his present high condition through a struggle for existence consequent on his multiplication; and if he is to advance still higher, it is to be feared that he must remain subject to a severe struggle.
All that at present can be said with certainty, is that, as with the individual, so with the species, the hour of life has run its course, ans is spent.
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present.
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