Josiah Bartlett quotes

Josiah Bartlett quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong, and get used to it.”
-- Josiah Bartlett

#Used Quotes
“Words when spoken out loud for the sake of performance are music. They have rhythm and pitch and timbre and volume. These are the properties of music and music has the ability to find us and move us and lift us up in ways that literal meaning can't.”
-- Josiah Bartlett

#Moving Quotes #Sake Quotes #Way Quotes
“Called on the people of New Hampshire . . . to confess before God their aggravated transgressions and to implore His pardon and forgiveness through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ . . . [t]hat the knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ may be made known to all nations, pure and undefiled religion universally prevail, and the earth be fill with the glory of the Lord.”
-- Josiah Bartlett

#Jesus Quotes #People Quotes #Earth Quotes
“Firstly I commit my Soul into the hands of God, its great and benevolent author.”
-- Josiah Bartlett

#Hands Quotes #Soul Quotes #Benevolent Quotes
“Of all the vices incident to man, lying is the most mean, most contemptible; it evinces a very weak, depraved heart, which shrinks at the exposure of motives and of actions.”
-- Josiah Bartlett

#Lying Quotes #Heart Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.”
“You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.”
“Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.”

Source : Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”
“Celebrities become divas because they get pampered so much, babied so much - then they get used to it”
“Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly”
“I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.”
“There will come a day when the phone doesn't ring as much as it used to.”
“It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.”
“In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.”
“I used to hold a fiery wind and I tried to determine the direction where poetry would fly.”

Source : Alda Merini (2016). “Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini”, p.99, Princeton University Press

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