Pastoral Resources

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a shower this morning, didn't you? Because you smell lovely!'

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.

Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.