Barton Gellman Quotes
The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
Quotes to Explore
-
Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
-
In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
-
Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
-
I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
-
The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
-
I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
-
You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
-
I like things simple.
-
I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
-
I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
-
I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
-
There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
-
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
-
I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
-
It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
-
In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
-
New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
-
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
-
I always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn't, thank God.
-
Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy's place. If one cannot do this, it is impossible to foresee, to take by surprise, to outflank. Misinterpreting an enemy can lead to defeat. This is how empires fall.
-
The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it.
-
Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you.
-
You know how we say things like "I just have to be true to myself"? What does that mean? Great people always say, "There's something I was meant to do." That knowingness is what the soul understands. You have fundamental agreements that you simply feel. You can't put your finger on them because they reveal themselves to you within the context of your life through coincidence, synchronicity, and obligations you can't get out of. Together, these things form the whole of your sacred contract.
-
The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
