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• There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. -- George Carli
• Wisdom: to live in the present, plan for the future, and profit from the past.
• Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
  -- George Orwell (1903-1950), "1984", 1948...
• Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
  George Orwell, autho...
• Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
  -- George Bernard Shaw...
• Life is no brief candle to me. I is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
  George Bernard Shaw...
• The problem with the future is it turns into the present.
• My interest is in the future, the present is passed ...