Pastoral Resources

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs.

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.

The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?

Every single note on this album is there for a reason.

And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it's a reason it's going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president's direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that's extraordinarily important.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them.

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.