Pastoral Resources

The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

There is no more reason to think that they expected the world to remain static than there is to think that any of us holds a crystal ball. The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!

For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.

The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want.

And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.

All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.