Pastoral Resources

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.

It's amazing to me that, in the 42 years since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, women today still receive fewer wages than men for the same work.

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested.

You use everything. You use tragedy you use everything.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it!

I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.

No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands?

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

A manager has his cards dealt to him and he must play them.