Pastoral Resources

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding on a principle of fraud? I wish to test the power of recent economic theory to give an exact answer to this question.

Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan.

The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all.

I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.

Crying over what's gone won't find the present.

I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.

I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.

Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.