Pastoral Resources

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.

As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.'

People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.

You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.

Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.

My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.

From doing Power Station, it was like, it's the same guys, but it doesn't sound like them. When we were in Duran, the labels and management wanted more Duran stuff so they could sell it.

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

Marriage is a great institution.

Newlyweds, they have this ideal, this picture of what marriage is like, something similar of their favorite memories growing up. If only it were that simple.

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.