Present Situation Quotes

No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future.

What we have currently available is what we have available.

It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.

God's mercy is boundless, free and, through Jesus Christ our Lord, available to us now in our present situation.

The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.

The roster that we have today may change tomorrow. It is what it is for right now.

You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done.

Everybody is just at the start of this huge process of trying to unravel what's going on with the 4,400, where they've been and why they're back and what they're trying to do with us in the present. And we're trying to work out what messages they're sending us.

I think it's perhaps fair to say we've been one of the most influential Royal Commissions this country ever had and there's nothing we have said that isn't relevant to the present situation.

Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted.

I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism.

We are in effect making a - to some extent, making a choice between future inflation and getting our - getting off the floor. And we're likely - we're likely to have more inflation in the future as a consequence of the things we do to fight the present situation.

We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

To stick to the present situation would be something like a man who was observed in Times Square looking earnestly along the pavement. He was asked what he was looking for. He said "I lost my watch."

Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.