Pastoral Resources

The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.

I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.

You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.

I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!

I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.

I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.

In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.

I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?