Pastoral Resources

Very sorry can't come. Lie follows by post.

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater.

I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies.

I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good.

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.

Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.

The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.

But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.