Present quotes

“My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.”
John Barrymore

“What may have been badchoices have all led me to this moment.”
Minnie Driver

“I try to live in the now where the ghosts of old wrongs do not abide.”
Naseeruddin Shah - Captain Nemo

“I think this is the greatest freedom that I have gained, the fact that I don't have to worry about what happens tomorrow, because I'm happy with what I've done today.”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Edward Snowden

“I don't want to have to remember my husband. I want to love him now.”
Natalie Trundy - Lisa

“Whatever you were, it's not who you are now.”

Christoph Waltz - Dr. Dyson Ido

“- Mary: You were the love of my life, and the pain of my life. And I need you to know, it's all the world to me that you're here.
- Earl Stone: I love you Mary.
- Mary: More today than yesterday.
- Earl Stone: But not as much as tomorrow.”
Dianne Wiest - Mary
Clint Eastwood - Earl Stone

“If you go into the past, that past becomes your future, and your former present becomes the past, which can't now be changed by your new future!”
Mark Ruffalo - Hulk

“There were giants in the industry. Now it is an era of midgets and conglomerates.”
Otto Preminger

“- Mildred: I know where your head is, but I'm telling you, you have got to get out of the past and look to the future.
- Lewis: I am, and this is it. This is my future. I'm sorry.”
Angela Bassett - Mildred
Jordan Fry - Lewis

“Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.”
Lindsay Duncan - Katherine

“I've no idea of the future, but I can see the past quite well. And the present, if the weather's clear.”
John Carroll Lynch - Tadhg

“Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.”
Natalie Imbruglia

“Niggas! Two thousand years after Jesus, thirty years after Martin Luther King, the age of Montel; sweet Lord of mercy is that where we at?”
Irma P. Hall - Marva Munson

“- Dale Arbus: Let the past be the past.
- Nick Hendricks: Yeah. The past? Well, we're not in the fucking past. We're in the goddamn present.”
Charlie Day - Dale Arbus
Jason Bateman - Nick Hendricks

“We were once a great people. Now we live in ruins. The kings of our past would weep if they could see how far we have fallen.”
Cree Summer - Princess 'Kida' Kidagakash

“You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present becomes the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it!”
Joanne Woodward - Amanda Wingfield

“There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there is nothing left to do, and nothing else to pursue.”
Forest Whitaker - Ghost Dog

“You're American. You think you can escape history. You live for the present.”

Paolo Bonacelli - Father Benedetto

“The future has taken root in the present.”
Nicol Williamson - Merlin

“I've got a present for you. This isn't from Santa Claus. This is from me to you. This is a magic ring, see? Just like in the fairy tales. If ever you're in trouble, or if you ever want me to do anything for you, you send me this ring, and I'll come.”

James Dunn - James Loop Merritt

“- Gladys Leeman: [wearing her old pageant outfit] And can you believe it, they still fit!
- Loretta: She had a big ass then, she's got a big ass now.”
Kirstie Alley - Gladys Leeman
Allison Janney - Loretta

When I finally got put together, I went back expecting a big welcome. You know what they said? "You're history".
Paul Newman - Doc Hudson

“- Obi-Wan Kenobi: Master Yoda says I should be mindful of the future.
- Qui-Gon Jinn: But not at the expense of the moment.”
Ewan Gordon McGregor - Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi
Liam Neeson - Qui-Gon Jinn

“He remembered the cold, clammy sensation of the railing. Cold, clammy, like the dead. Yes, the railing was the same as he remembered it, perhaps colder, perhaps more startling. His mind fought to dwell in the present, yet it continued to deal with the past. One could almost read his thoughts.”

Criswell - Himself