Pastoral Resources

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.

I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.

Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.

I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.

I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate.

The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.