Pastoral Resources

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.

How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.

In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.