We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
We are perhaps uniquely among the earth's creatures the worrying animal. We worry away our lives fearing the future discontent with the present unable to take in the idea of dying unable to sit still.
If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
It is difficult to live in the present ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past present and future.
In rising financial markets the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present but only for the future where streams of revenue play in his imagination.
Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.
If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong it represents a loss of a billion dollars perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right it is the future of this company for the next century.
You have to like the present if not your life becomes secondhand if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to and the last duty done.
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present which seldom happens to us.
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible how doomed the present is.
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.