Pastoral Resources

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.

The reason this resolution was delayed had nothing to do with anything Karl did or failed to do.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.

Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.

Men who are in prison for rape think it's the dumbest thing that ever happened... they were put in jail for something very little different from what most men do most of the time and call it sex. The only difference is they got caught. It may also be true.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

This is a group effort. This is group theatre. This is no big star turn. You could do things with it to do that but it would just be out of kilter. This is one reason I like this play. This is a unit.

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

I think comparisons are odious.

The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.