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“She shrugged, looking as baffled by it as he felt. "I don't know. I wonder sometimes if people even know what love is anymore. Some days, when I'm watching my friends change lovers as unperturbedly as they change shoes, I think the world just got filled with too many people, and all our technological advances made things so easy that it cheapened our most basic, essential value somehow," she told him. "It's like spouses are commodities nowadays: disposable, constantly getting tossed back out for trade on the market and everyone's trying to trade up, up--like there is a 'trading up' in love." She rolled her eyes. "No way. That's not for me. I'm having one husband. I'm getting married once. When you know going in that you're staying for life, it makes you think harder about it, go slower, choose really well.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Spell of the Highlander

“Yesterday was the last day on the calender of the past. Tomorrow will be the first day on the calender of the future. Today is both the first and the last day of the present. Use it well.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“At Times I Am A Flower

...at times I am a flower ~
singularly defined ...”
― Muse, Enigmatic Evolution

“The present day composer refuses to die.”
― Edgard Varèse

“You’ll never get anywhere with your head in the clouds if you don’t turn those dreams into present-day forward motion. Show gratitude for where you came by not regretting what you could’ve and should’ve done today.��”
― Richie Norton

“ It is important to appreciate, as we look at where present-day values and beliefs originated, that nothing is new. It is all inherited from, or influenced by, what has happened in the past.”
― David Icke, The Robots' Rebellion: The Story of the Spiritual Renaissance

“In Faërie one can indeed conceive of an ogre who possesses a castle hideous as a nightmare (for the evil of the ogre wills it so), but one cannot conceive of a house built with a good purpose �� an inn, a hostel for travellers, the hall of a virtuous and noble king �� that is yet sickeningly ugly. At the present day it would be rash to hope to see one that was not �� unless it was built before our time.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays