Pastoral Resources

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.

In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.

There's something I've been wanting to say for a long time. I'm a liberal, and I'm proud of it. In fact, I was probably a little more liberal than Hubert was. I just wanted to say that.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.

I was a little bit wary of playing Nicholas. In the script, which I think is true of the novel and the film, he's the only character not singing and dancing in a musical style. Playing someone who is the personification of good is a little difficult.

I watch these actors who when you go to buy a pint of milk you see them smiling on the cover of 20 magazines. Then when you see them in a film it's hard to believe the character because you just see them everywhere.

Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops.

With all the weird surroundings of outer space the basic underlying theme of the show is a philosophical approach to man's relationship to woman. There are both sexes in the crew, in fact, the first officer is a woman.

In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.

I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything.

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.

If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character.