Pastoral Resources

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

To be at one with God is to be at peace... peace is to be found only within, and unless one finds it there he will never find it at all. Peace lies not in the external world. It lies within one's own soul.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.

Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.