Pastoral Resources

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.

I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.

The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.

The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.

Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it's my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that.

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.