P.S. Bartlett Quotes

You have the right to be offended or not to be offended.

To resist him that is set in authority is evil

Reservation should be under 'Bartlett.' Right, that's two T's. Yes. 'Bart-let-et.'

Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule and contempt.

There never was found a man who had courage to acknowledge himself a coward.

Among nonclassical ions the ratio of conceptual difficulty to molecular weight reaches a maximum with the cyclopropylcarbinyl-cyclobutyl system.

All life depends on organic reactions. A favorite saying.

I will continue my consistent record of voting for lower taxes, less spending and fewer regulations to make our government more effective and efficient while upholding our Constitution.

I will work for energy policies that recognize oil won't last forever.

When you're in politics sometimes you step on toes and they come back and kick you in the backside.

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.

I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.

People will say I'm an idealist. I hope so.

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

[Victoria Clark] is one of those people who has the rarest combination of gifts. I can put her in any classical play tomorrow because she such an extraordinary actress.

I think [Guettel is] probably one of our most special writers now, pushing things in ways that are unique.

Jesus loves me! This I know As He loved so long ago Taking children on His knee Saying, Let them come to Me.

What's great about [Guettel] is his very distinct voice as a composer. And that distinct voice is something worth cherishing and expressing so we just didn't want to screw that up.

Daffy-down-dilly came up in the cold, Through the brown mould Although the March breeze blew keen on her face, Although the white snow lay in many a place.

Remember why you're running your marathon. When you're struggling with those training runs that thought will help you.

...I am better Thoughtful Prince than King. Potential holds appeal since in its castle wallsOne is protected from the awful shameOf failure.

A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents.

Real vampires don't get pain, we give it." Florence da Vinci, Real Vampires Live Large

Sometimes... the first step to forgiveness is realizing that the other person... is batshit crazy.

I always strive to create a setting that leaves the readers' imagination room to roam. That way, every reader sees the story through their own eyes.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

The greatest challenge of parenting is in the inner work it requires: the strength and confidence in believing that we are not in control of, but the answer for our children.

Without my voice and spirit I am dust. This is not what I want, but what I must.

We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.

Creating our own realities is nothing new, but now it’s easier than ever to become trapped in echo chambers of our own making.

Part of living in a free society is accepting that no idea is beyond being challenged or ridiculed, and that nothing is more stifling to free expression than being afraid to upset or offend.

When a day goes by and I haven't written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

I'm a real nature lover, so whenever possible, I like to get to the beach or get to a forest or get somewhere there's fresh air. Apart from that, I'm a film addict and a DVD freak.

I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.