The past is an old armchair in the attic the present an ominous ticking sound and the future is anybody's guess.

The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism economic inequality is real and growing.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

America which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today hardly stops to enjoy it in her insatiable appetite for the future.

The future is the worst thing about the present.

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present future or past either.

I think that the present is worth attention one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of of this future or that future.

To me living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

Of present fame think little and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried like the flowers that are strewed over our grave may be gratifying to the living but they are nothing to the dead.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.