Pastoral Resources

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about.