Bartenson Quotes & Sayings

Pretty isn't good enough. — Ellen Hopkins

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know the truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

So many suffer so much while so few sacrifice so little. — Robert Pierce

What discord we should bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered. Then we should govern the world and not God. And do you think we should govern it better? It gives me only pain when I hear the long, wearisome petitions of people asking for they know not what ... Thanks-giving with a full heart-and the rest silence and submission to the divine will! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I know that I'm not a criminal. People say that, but my music speaks for itself. And I believe in my music. — R. Kelly

Pain is never ennobling, only degrading. And do not be afraid, sir, that there will ever be too little of it in the world to spare mankind its "purification". There will always be human groans enough to fill the sails of that argument. But I am a practical Christian. Unlike you, sir, I relieve suffering, wherever I see it. Your ladies would not object to warm baths, to mitigate labour pains? To opium? It is the same prinicple. — Richard Gordon

Doing Broadway was always a dream of mine since I was a little girl. — Olivia D'Abo