Pastoral Resources

You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.

Since 2000, we have lost 2.7 million manufacturing jobs, of which 500,000 jobs were in high-tech industries such as telecommunications and electronics.

The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave, probably spilling his drink.

In fact Sarah Palin has created more jobs than Obama has. She created eleven jobs fact-checking at the AP just for the Palin autobiography.

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

The other guys drink, but they don't drink anywhere near what I used to. And I think they're slightly respectful of the fact that I'm off it, so it's not a problem.

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.

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.