Pastoral Resources

When is it too late to say it's still early for the Cubs? Try now. Their magic number is 1998, at least until it becomes 1999, but in lieu of a present, they offer you a future.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.

The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look.

Endure the present, and watch for better things.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

Excuse me for harrowing you with this picture of war. But I am very full of it at present.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.

Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that.

The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.

With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.

Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.