Pastoral Resources

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that now. Teenage American movies are all about sick jokes, puking a lot, arse jokes.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.

I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention.

Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.

The outstanding people realized that the job involved more than just writing a good strategic plan. It was also important that top management should understand the plan and be prepared to adopt it.

If we repealed all the laws of the world marriage would still exist.

95% on content and the computer language remains the same.

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.

I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.