Quotes with present-day

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  • Friedrich von Schiller The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Gloria Steinem The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The future influences the present just as much as the past.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Johnson The future is purchased by the present.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William Somerset Maugham The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Virgil The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Robert Alan The good deed you do today For a brother or sister in need Will come back to you some day For humanity's a circle in deed.
    Robert Alan
    American singer/songwriter and comic book creator (1971 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Otto Von Bismarck The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Seneca The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Buffalo Bill The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
    An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920)
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • James Baldwin The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Carine Roitfeld The hair and makeup is very important in a fashion picture. When I create a look for a girl, it starts with the makeup. Sometimes it takes an entire day to find the look.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Charles Dickens The hardest and best borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record and are suffered every day.
    Old Curiosity Shop
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Wayne Gretzky The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
    Wayne Gretzky
    Canadian ice hockey player and coach (1961 - )
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  • Ernest Dimnet The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
    Ernest Dimnet
    French priest, writer and lecturer (1866 - 1954)
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  • John Maynard Keynes The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Carolyn Murphy The industry's much quicker. The turnover with models - I cannot keep up. And in my day, we had so much personality. We probably caused a lot more trouble, but it was fun.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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