Pastoral Resources

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.

Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.

Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Writing that's not working for a living.

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way.

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.