Pastoral Resources

The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back in business, that is my objective, and we await the IRA statement to see if this will trigger a new dawn.

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.

Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing.

There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it.

I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses.

I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.

Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years.

Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

A women needs to be a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom.

I have got one of those faces that change every day: you can dress me up, make me look vampy and then make me look 12 years old. But don't all women do this thing? We all take on these roles.

I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.

The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.