Pastoral Resources

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.

The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.

Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.

You can't be evangelical and associate yourself with Jesus and what he says about the poor and just have no other domestic concerns than tax cuts for wealthy people.

We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families in our shelters? Why do we have one of six of our children poor, and one of three of these are children of color? 'Why?' is the prophetic question.

Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.

Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike.