Pastoral Resources

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it.

The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families.

Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.

Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.

Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.

Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.

I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years.

We did not have anyone like a manager, who could guide us and make it happen.

We had gone out on the road in 94 and 95 for a three month American tour, and we realised, as did our manager and booking agent at the time, that we have really exhausted it, and we can't make money at this anymore.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

People don't follow titles, they follow courage.

I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?