Pastoral Resources

A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It's a shame they've destroyed my love for the game.

I believe that behind both the person who weighs 400 pounds and the one who weighs 85 there is a lot of baggage, and it has nothing to do with their bodies.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.

What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.

Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.

There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.