Pastoral Resources

In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live.

Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.

When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance.

I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.

I believe you can remember the future as much as the past.

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.

The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years.

The director's who want to be innovative use the DVD as a tool to see what people have done in the past and you have other people who will actually take from better directors and that makes them better directors.

Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened in the past.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.

One faces the future with one's past.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.