Pastoral Resources

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

In fact, at Olympic National Park in my district, they 3 years ago had 130 summer employees they brought in for temporary work. This summer they have 25 because they cannot afford more.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.

I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.

In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role.

In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.

Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.

The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned, really turned me on to The Best Man.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales.

If the president is failing to disclose material facts with regard to legislation being presented to the Congress on a question as important as war and peace, I think it does impair the level of trust that the House and the Senate have for this administration.

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

Being around all the great names of the game at a young age because they were my heroes; the fact this meant so much to Canada. It was just an incredible thing to be a part of.

The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved.