Pastoral Resources

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.

One of our priorities should be to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

I can assure you, that the gallant hearts that throb beneath its sacred folds, will only be content, when this glorious banner is planted first and foremost in the coming struggle for out independence.

Look whether it be indifferently, as well for sins secret as open, what you find to be your best cordials to comfort you, whether God's Word, or natural means.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad.

Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can of worms in terms of who was really a victim and who was not.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.

In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally.

There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed.