Pastoral Resources

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.

One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.

I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

Sad and sweet and wise Here a child reposes; Dust is on his eyes, Quietly he lies - Satan, strew Roses.

You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.

I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people who can argue well.

Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.