Pastoral Resources

We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these words in our head.

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.

I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.

Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title.

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.