Pastoral Resources

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this.

Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.

The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent.

We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.

This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.

If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.

The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people.