Pastoral Resources

Anytime you open your mouth there's going to be someone who's put off. I try to deal with that by keeping the topical portions of my show brief. I realize that some people wish my comments were briefer.

It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.

That's what makes the Ryder Cup in golf so much better than the Masters or the U.S. Open. To be a part of something that is not about personal achievement, but about representing everyone and sharing it with the whole country, it's wonderful.

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect.

We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once.

It will be quite satisfactory if you open them gradually, as the circumstances may require; but the President assures you that this will not be the case if you make a treaty with England first.

Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about.

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

We sat here during Irene in '99 with the back door open. We drank and watched all the stuff fly by.

The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.

In the over two centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, millions of Americans have bravely served our nation in uniform so that all generations can continue to enjoy those same liberties.

In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

I'm trying to open a Chopper shop this year.

As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.

It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.