Pastoral Resources

If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.

I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.

Pharmaceuticals have become an increasingly important part of modern medicine, and our seniors shouldn't have to worry about whether they can afford the medicines they need to stay healthy and maintain their independence.

I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and thin what we ought to do about it.

It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

And at five o'clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country.

Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.

Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.