Pastoral Resources

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.

I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Habit is ten times nature.

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head.

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.