Pastoral Resources

The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development.

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.

We are excited about the music, past and present and future, and are really looking forward to playing.

There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.

You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise.

Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.

At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not believe we would have been on the verge of war at the present time.

You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.