Pastoral Resources

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.

The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out.

I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.

If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.

The lessons that it teaches are fundamentally the lessons that all great battles teach That even the most carefully prepared plans often go wrong. That lucky breaks are very important.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.

It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.