Pastoral Resources

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

That was the biggest thrill, going over to these guy's houses and having them want me to practice with them and they would show me a lot of stuff, which was really advanced stuff to me at my age.

The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.

But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.

America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.

The facts are on our side.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible.

Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed.

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.