Pastoral Resources

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?

They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors.

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.