Pastoral Resources

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.

Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.

But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.

Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

But no one frees himself from being in love in three days.

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret.

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.

Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.