My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity and not only this present world but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past present and future and encompasses all humanity.

Words matter especially words defining complicated political arrangements because they shape perceptions of the events of the past attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present and expectations about desirable directions for the future.

People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.

The future is keeping you out of the present time.

My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

The future will be the child of the past and the present even if a rebellious child.

My idea in terms of managing a narrative or in thinking in my creative life is that you could easily argue that the past the present and the future all occur simultaneously and if you can postulate that then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.

My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

The strange thing about Africa is how past present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz if you like.

Creation is all space all time - all things past present and future.

The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.

I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am and I move on while thinking of these things.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past the present and the future that we bear within us whoever possesses but one of these terms has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past in complaining of the present in fearing future.