Quotes tagged ‘present’

“I didn’t disappear, I was present for all of it.”

— Zal Batmanglij, Brit Marling, Prairie Johnson, Brit Marling, imdb.com

“I don't want you to call me. I want you to be here.”

— Micah Fitzerman-Blue, Noah Harpster, Shelly Pfefferman, Judith Light, imdb.com

“Sabrina: Hey, Roxie, what's your family doing for Christmas? Roxie: The usual. We put up an aluminum tree, get take-out from Taco Bell, and then I watch my Dad and step-mom exchange cartons of Winston Lights. Morgan: Your family exchanges cigarettes? Roxie: Hey, it's just not Christmas without a vis…”

— Jon Vandergriff, Sabrina Spellman, Melissa Joan Hart, imdb.com

“If I now change my past, I will change who I am right now.”

— Jantje Friese, Ronny Schalk, The Stranger, Andreas Pietschmann, imdb.com

“We trust that time is linear. That it proceeds eternally, uniformly. Into infinity. But the distinction between past, present and future is nothing but an illusion. Yesterday, today and tomorrow are not consecutive, they are connected in a never-ending circle. Everything is connected.”

— Jantje Friese, The Stranger, Andreas Pietschmann, imdb.com

“Going back is more difficult than going forward, I discover.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“This isn't how I want it to be, how either of us want it to be. This is what it is. Let's stop pretending. Let's just be here.”

— Matt Byrne, Shonda Rhimes, Olivia Pope, Kerry Washington, imdb.com

“All we have is this moment, right here, right now. The future is just a fucking concept that we use to avoid being alive today. So be here... now.”

— Alan Ball, Brenda Chenowith, Rachel Griffiths, imdb.com

“The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them, They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all a…”

— H. P. Lovecraft, amazon.com

“Don't chase after the future or cling to the present, Too many have taken this false hag for their bride.”

— Hafiz of Persia, mystery-school.net

“Most people are perpetually locked in the present. Their decisions are overly influenced by the most immediate event; they easily become emotional and ascribe greater significance to a problem than it should have in reality.”

— Robert Greene, amazon.com

“History is supposed to teach us how to deal with the present and future, but it doesn't do that if we look at it merely as a record of events.”

— Robert Hooke, amazon.com

“next, adj.: We shouldn't spend too much of our present trying to pin down our future; best to choose a direction and decide to go together.”

— David Levithan, twitter.com

“Best to take the moment present As a present for the moment”

— Stephen Sondheim, imdb.com

“Look back and be grateful Look ahead and be hopeful Look around and be helpful”

— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez, amazon.com

“For the present you can just call me the Kingfish.”

— Huey Long, amazon.com

“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com

“As of right now, I am in love with her, and that love is the biggest problem in my life.”

— Chuck Klosterman, amazon.com

“For the moment I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com