Pastoral Resources

Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.

Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.

I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

It's been a strange day - a day when I thought I was on top of the world, planning my life. I planned all of my courses for the rest of the semester at Smith, and talked to my advisor about honoring in History.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.

Having been to Europe and working and traveling there, the restaurants my wife and I remember were always off the beaten trail restaurants. So I tried to seek a little 'off the beaten trail,' but cool area.

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper.

Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.

When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.