Pastoral Resources

If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.

Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.

I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.

Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress.

Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.

Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?

I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.

I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money.

The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.

It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.