Pastoral Resources

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.

Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies.

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.

I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.

Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss.

Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.

I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.

Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.

Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.