Pastoral Resources

The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days.

No matter how heinous someone's behaviour, if you make them a comic character, you can't expect people to hate them.

If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.

I'm a character actress.

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

I was a Sedgewick without the smarts. It infused its way into me and I feel like it formed my character in a big way because of what I was exposed to.

The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.

51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!

The advice that I usually give to young actors is that if you can create a character for the stage and keep that character fresh for at least 6 months that means you're doing the show eight times a week.

I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.

I think it talks about the fact that there are black people in the world who have tremendous amount of talents and have no channel through which they can those talents.

The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.

In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.

The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.

For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.

No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.

All I'm going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are always trying to interpret what those facts mean, extrapolate from them what they mean.