Pastoral Resources

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement.

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.

What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.

Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development.

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.

I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.

I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women.

I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.