Pastoral Resources

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.

My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and create my own image, my own style, my own type of game. Right now I can't even think of one guy I've been compared to.

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.

Personality and socialization aren't the same thing.

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.

The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.

Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not.

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.