Pastoral Resources

As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.

We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation.

Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying.

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.

In fact, it struck me when we invaded last year that if we did it without European and East Asian support, we were risking losing our alliance in Europe in exchange for Iraq, and that is a very undesirable exchange.

I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Although a lot of pain for a little screen time; Shaving legs, waxing eyebrows, high heels, trying to put on a bra, losing weight because women's clothes are SO revealing - Ladies you have my respect.

I am hoping the four new players can bring in some energy and fresh enthusiasm because they do not have the baggage that comes from being part of a losing side.

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!

Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!