Pastoral Resources

The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.

If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them.

I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality.

God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.

I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.

The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

When a language creates as it does a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.

At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.

Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation.