Pastoral Resources

In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.

Nobody leaves a hotel without getting a full measure of three months of rental assistance. So no one has been evicted - no one who's eligible has been evicted from a hotel without getting a significant amount of money to find - to pay for their rent.

I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.

I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.

It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.

In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.

If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.

A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.

I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.

Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.