Pastoral Resources

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character.

Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.

The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation.

Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.

People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.

These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.