Pastoral Resources

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.

So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.

I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I'm always like, 'Can't I just wear sweatpants?'

I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.

Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had.

There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that's the case, then everything needs to be rewritten now, right now.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.

We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act.