Pastoral Resources

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

We come to beginnings only at the end.

I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage.

I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business.

Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.

I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.

We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been.

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.

In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.