Pastoral Resources

Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.

The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well.

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings.

As we have heard, the end of al-Zarqawi is a significant blow to al-Qaida operations in Iraq. It is another clear indication of the progress we are making.

We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.

Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.

Parks said, he's guilty and that's the end of the story.

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice.

I had planned to accomplish something considerable, and this is the end.

The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.

From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.

But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.

Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.