Pastoral Resources

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve.

If my soccer career were over, I would still come here because of the people. And despite the fact I've had to skip some school for National Team purposes, I am looking forward to holding that Carolina degree as soon as I can get my hands on it.

The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.

I've watched those shows my whole life - being on one is like a dream. It's hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I've known my whole life.

The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject.

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.

I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.

In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.

At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.

But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around.

In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.