Pastoral Resources

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.

Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.

Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.

If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.

So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

There is winning and there is misery.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.

They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.