Pastoral Resources

People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.

I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.

I think the younger generation, the people poised to dominate the workforce, are more socially conscious. They are more demanding in terms of environment and how that environment contributes to their life.

We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.

The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.

After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

One of the speakers asked how many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand.

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.

And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.

At the same time I was being given a Lifetime Achievement Grammy.

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.