Pastoral Resources

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's position on Iraq; 'consistent' is not one of them.

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene.

But I think once the word gets out that the movie is funny - funny is transcendent - it will traverse all demographic barriers if people embrace it as a funny movie.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.