Pastoral Resources

I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important.

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Many thanks for all of the love and good wishes sent our way from my friends out there in cartoon land... the only place where a nine month pregnant woman can still play a hot goth chick in a belly shirt!

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

There is no doubt that now, more than ever, we must work to end our dependence on foreign oil sources. But we cannot do so by ignoring the wishes of the coastal communities that oppose drilling.

Our country is blessed with a democratic political system that is sensitive to the wishes of our people.

I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.

So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his employer; and, in many instances, rather leave his situation than give up the growth of his favourite flower.