Pastoral Resources

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.

I was always attracted to the past as a kid.

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

I don't like to dwell on the past.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

The past has to inform the present.

There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.

In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.

It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did.

Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture.

I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.

In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.

Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed.