Pastoral Resources

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.

Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.

I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

We live on the leash of our senses.

There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things.

In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me."

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

Some moments it feels longer, other moments it feels like it's flown by; you can't believe you've done it all that time... Overall, you have a strong sense for the full spectrum that you've sort of traveled.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.