Pastoral Resources

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.

As co-chair of the Iraqi Women's Caucus in the House, I've enjoyed the opportunity to collaborate with and hear from Iraqi women elected to serve in the new National Assembly.

Our brave men and women are fighting around the world and they deserve relief.

The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created.

Music is escapism, it's entertainment.

From doing Power Station, it was like, it's the same guys, but it doesn't sound like them. When we were in Duran, the labels and management wanted more Duran stuff so they could sell it.

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

I can take criticisms but not compliments.

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

Here was this vast machinery of government and they didn't know how it ran, where you put in the gas, where you put in the oil, where you turn the throttle.

For me Christianity is about the Kingdom, not about the Church: it has to do with human growth and development nor church growth and development.

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

While these attitudes are more visible when direct- ed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for.

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!