Pastoral Resources

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.

Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.

Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.

I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.

I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future.

It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession.

From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life.

It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all.

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.

Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.

No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.

My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.