Pastoral Resources

As we celebrate President Reagan's remarkable career and historic legacy, we also celebrate a man of strong character, deep conviction, unforgettable charm, and wonderful wit.

There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them.

A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.

We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that.

Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.

Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.

The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

I find that acrylics dry very fast - which is supposed to be its charm; however, I find that because of that quality they don't blend as nicely as the oils. The oils, for one thing, are softer and more flexible than the acrylics. Also, the colors are brighter with oils.

What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?

I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.