The Present Age Quotes

Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now. — Pericles

Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that is the key — Karen Hackel

All that exists is the present moment — Alaric Hutchinson

Women prefer to serve the present and are afraid of age; they are in the grip of youth of their dreams. Age is truly an oppression for women. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer

We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and surrender to the music. — Pete Hamill

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities. — Desiderius Erasmus

I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present. — Debbie Harry

The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age. — Vincent Massey

Eternity is to us as time, the age to come, the continuation, the manifestation, and perfection of our present and true existence. — Adolph Saphir

Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into the eternal present. — H.E. Davey

The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity. — Benjamin Disraeli

If the church is acceptable to this present age
and is not suffering reproach, then it is not the true church that our Lord founded. — Billy Graham

In the present age, a man with harmonious ideas is regarded as out of touch. — Mason Cooley

The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values. — Christopher Dawson

A synthesis embracing both rational understanding and the mystical experience of unity is the mythos, spoken or unspoken, or our present day and age. — Wolfgang Pauli

[T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.] — Ludwig Feuerbach

Eternal Life is life itself, real life, which can also be lived in the present age and is no longer challenged by physical death. — Pope Benedict XVI

Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced. — Mahatma Gandhi

The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast. — Peter Drucker

I think we're going to carry the 'Ice Age's up to 'Ice Age 15,' which means basically they'll be in the present decade. — Denis Leary

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives. — Oscar Wilde

This present age is so flippant that if a man loves the Saviour he is styled a fanatic, and if he hates the powers of evil he is named a bigot. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness. — Gail Sheehy

An era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age. — Saul Bellow

Each age selects its own geniuses from the past to suit its own needs. It's always been that way. — Seb Kirby

Each day is a gift
To embrace and welcome — Karen Hackel

105. I congratulate myself on not having arrived into this world until the present time. This age suits my taste. — Ovid

The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age. — Nirmala Srivastava

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit. — Norman Douglas

It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present. — John Stuart Mill

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss. — Jared Diamond

It's the age of daring. It's the only time we have. We must live in the present. We are young and alive. — Gregory Maguire

In the present age doubt has become immune to faith and faith has dissociated itself from doubt. — Gabriel Vahanian

Within the New Testament, there is no indication that Christians should expect to be healthy, wealthy, and successful in this present age. — Billy Graham

One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame. — Thomas Gray

Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity and justice to all mankind. — Marcus Garvey

Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up. — Casey Stengel

The young are irritated by stories of the past; they wish to live only in the present, just as I did when I was their age. I — Lucinda Riley

The Golden Age was never the present age. — Benjamin Franklin

I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment. — Jonathan Ames