Pastoral Resources

It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!

Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

We get along really well, but TV and film aren't reality. We're best friends, but we do have our fights!

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

Government frequently has a problem recognizing perception versus reality.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.