Top 100 Barton Quotes
#1. The Founders believed that pluralism survived only within the concept of religious liberty espoused by American Christianity.
David Barton
#2. The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
Barton Gellman
#3. The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.
Barton Gellman
#4. A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.
Bruce Barton
#5. I not only stand on my two feet, but I walk on my two feet for my two feet.
Keely Barton
#6. I'm still getting used to changing earrings - It still feels really weird to be pushing bits of metal through holes in my earlobes that weren't there a few weeks back, and actually seeing and feeling the holes in my lobes is still a bit freaky.
Mischa Barton
#7. CO2 is not a pollutant in any normal definition of the term.
Joe Barton
#8. 'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.
Barton Gellman
#9. As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale.
Barton Gellman
#10. I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy.
John Barton
#11. What's a feminist?" Julie asked.
"Someone who thinks women are fish," Barton replied. He was smiling at Lily. "And that men are bicycles, which makes us basically useless to anyone of the fish persuasion. But it does categorize us as creatures who exist solely for the purpose of being ridden.
Dianne Dixon
#12. What is needed in the present plight of mankind is not more science but a change of heart that shall move mankind to devote to constructive and peaceful purposes ...
Ralph Barton Perry
#13. Friend of mine, a smart journalist, had his iPad stolen. He couldn't help that - the thief broke into his house. But his private, personal data wasn't stolen, exactly. Donated, more like. He had no passcode set on the iPad.
Barton Gellman
#14. The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation.
David Barton
#15. Messi is the best that's played the game. Streets ahead of Maradona.
Joey Barton
#16. The essence of a religious approach to the world, it seems to me, is to be found, not in the imposition of theological dogma, but in the recognition of what is actually there.
John Barton
#17. I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff.
John Barton
#18. Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you.
Barton Gellman
#19. All too often we fail to ask what we are trying to sustain. Ultimately, sustainability must be measured by the endurance of thriving human communities.
Barton Seaver
#20. A hero is not only a brave individual, but a brave individual that dares to be different.
Keely Barton
#21. I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn't because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy.
Joe Barton
#22. Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
Barton Gellman
#23. Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals.
Barton Gellman
#24. While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them
Clara Barton
#25. An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state their preferences and determine which company and which product shall be the leader today and which shall lead tomorrow.
Bruce Barton
#26. The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the ;thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good.
Ralph Barton Perry
#27. Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women." --Attributed to both Marion Smith and Nicole Hollander
Amanda Barton
#28. The 1947 Court (Everson v. Board of Education) for the first time had used only Jefferson's metaphor - completely divorced from its context and intent.
David Barton
#29. Who is the ideal reader? God only knows.
John Barton
#30. We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.
Barton Seaver
#31. The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.
Clara Barton
#32. The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.
Bruce Barton
#33. It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war.
Clara Barton
#34. It turns out that American Express honors recurring payments even if the vendor is unable to supply an accurate card number and expiration date. An Amex phone representative said this is a feature, not a bug, which makes sure my bills are paid.
Barton Gellman
#36. Never hit a man with a closed fist," he told her. He could feel her pulse.
"Why? Because it gives you an excuse to manhandle me?"
He let go. "Slap his face instead."
"Ha."
"It will make him take you less seriously, and then he won't be expecting it when you knee him in the groin.
Courtney Milan
#37. For too long we have placed an irrational burden upon our oceans by demanding only a narrow selection of species, which has led to unsustainable fishing and economic practices. If we instead ask the ocean what it is willing to supply, we engage in an inherently more sustainable relationship.
Barton Seaver
#38. There should be absolutely no 'Separation of Church and State' in America.
David Barton
#39. Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
Bruce Barton
#40. In computer circles, any unencrypted data is known as 'cleartext.'
Barton Gellman
#41. We do have a Godly heritage in America, but we have been robbed - robbed by the 3 percent.
David Barton
#42. Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.
Barton Gellman
#43. Washington's address is virtually unknown today and has not been seen in most American history textbooks in nearly four decades. Perhaps it is because of all the religious warnings Washington made in his 'Farewell Address.'
David Barton
#44. If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.
John Barton
#45. Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.
Bruce Barton
#46. The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are.
Bruce Barton
#47. Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem.
John Barton
#48. Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
Barton Gellman
#49. It's hard to make something feel like it needs to exist.
Jake Barton
#50. Whether it's digital or physical, a pencil or a pen: line work. Humans are making things. And out of that comes the entire designed world we live within.
Jake Barton
#51. The Court explained the problem with his writings (People v. Ruggles. 1811.): an attack on Jesus Christ was an attack on Christianity; and an attack on Christianity was an attack on the foundation of the country; therefore, an attack on Jesus Christ was equivalent to an attack on the country!
David Barton
#52. Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
Ed Gillespie
#53. An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.
John Barton
#55. Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.
Joe Barton
#56. Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.
Barton Gellman
#57. I don't even know who Joey Barton is.
Neymar
#58. We live in a world where terrorism has a more familiar meaning than peace.
Keely Barton
#60. Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace.
Ralph Barton Perry
#61. Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
Barton Gellman
#62. There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
Barton Gellman
#64. A nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation.
Edmund Barton
#65. On average, since 9/11, the FBI reckons that just over 100,000 terrorism leads each year have come over the transom. Analysts and agents designate them as immediate, priority or routine, but the bureau says every one is covered.
Barton Gellman
#67. The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan.
Barton Gellman
#68. But Bella's disappearance brought us together. Made us a real couple. I always said we needed a child.
Fiona Barton
#69. It was truly amazing what character defects people would tolerate if one had a title, a fortune, and a few interesting scars.
Anne Barton
#70. In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.
Bruce Barton
#71. There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
Barton Gellman
#72. I like guys who are confident but not cocky, who are comfortable with themselves, and who know what they want.
Mischa Barton
#73. In 1995, Glaxo bought Burroughs Wellcome and became the presumptive leader in AIDS therapy.
Barton Gellman
#74. Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to think there are no little things.
Bruce Barton
#76. It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.
Bruce Barton
#77. When you are through changing, you are through.
Bruce Barton
#79. I was only one woman alone, and had no power to move to action full-fed, sleek- coated, ease-loving, pleasure-seeking, well-paid,and well-placed countrymen in this war- trampled, dead, old land, each one afraid that he should be called upon to do something.
Clara Barton
#80. I feel very connected to poets across the country.
John Barton
#81. The Court abandoned the traditional constitutional meaning of 'religion' as a single denomination or system of worship and instead substituted a new 'modern' concept which even now remains vague and nebulous, having changed several times in recent years.
David Barton
#82. Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years.
Barton Gellman
#83. I shot Barton Fink in July and moved out to LA that fall. The movie came out in the spring and it was a year before I got Wings.
Tony Shalhoub
#84. There is no reliable way to calculate from the number of recorded compliance issues how many Americans have had their communications improperly collected, stored or distributed by the NSA.
Barton Gellman
#85. The Memorial Finder covers the gap. It tells you the specific panel and number where you can find an individual but begins to reveal the connections between the names themselves. As you move around the site itself, a smartphone app will reveal adjacencies as well as the stories behind the names.
Jake Barton
#86. When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
Barton Gellman
#87. No," I said. "There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I might concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so very busy punishing ourselves.
Agatha Christie
#88. I like playing dark, offbeat, quirky characters.
Mischa Barton
#89. Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.
Barton Seaver
#90. Everybody complains that politics separates words from their meanings, and this is part of the reason why. Words are useful, but often their meanings are not. Sometimes what you want is feeling rather than meaning, warmth rather than content. And that takes verbiage. The
Barton Swaim
#91. The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority.
Bruce Barton
#92. I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.
Joe Barton
#93. Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
Barton Gellman
#94. I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on.
John Barton
#95. You don't have a right to vote, you've got a duty of vote.
David Barton
#96. I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself.
Elizabeth Barton
#98. Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.
Bernard Barton
#99. For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for and behave in the initial chaos of a mass-casualty event.
Barton Gellman
#100. The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading grievance holds that the 16th Amendment, which authorizes the federal income tax, was ratified through fraud.
Barton Gellman
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