Pastoral Resources

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original setting... but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public the reverence and elevation these subjects impart to me.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

The largest single contributor to Iraq's security is that effort of Iraqi people who continue to step forward to join the various Iraqi security forces.

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations.

From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts.

Understand from top to bottom what the effort requires.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort.

One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.

There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end.

People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.