Pastoral Resources

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.

Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law.

Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.

As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.

CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business.

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business.

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.

Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.

That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business.

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.