“I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content beyond what you might find in a PG-rated movie – expressions of who likes whom, holding hands, and perhaps the occasional kiss. The idea that we should treat sexual orientation itself as an adults-only topic, however, is absurd. Non-heterosexual children exist. To pretend they do not, to fail to recognize that they have needs for support and validation like any child, would be bad teaching, bad writing, and bad citizenship.” NeedsShouldWritingMeanChildrenBookIdeasHandsMightWould BeLanguageSupportViolenceFailingTeachingMiddleExpressionKissingAdultsTreatsCommittedLikesAbsurdGradesAppropriateCitizenshipTopicsOccasionalOrientationValidationExplicitHolding HandsBad WritingBad Language Author:Rick Riordan
“Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were his natural vocation, or to ignore the effects of misfortune on the soul, to assume, that is, that the soul can suffer and remain unmarked by it, can fail, in fact, to be recast in misfortune's image.” PersonsSoulFactsSufferingNaturalFailingEffectsTreatsAssumingTendenciesMisfortunesUnfortunateCatastropheVocation Book:War and the Iliad Source: War and the Iliad
“Doctors should first understand the cause of disease, then treat it with diet. Medicine should only be used if diet fails” IfsShouldFirstsUsedCausesFailingDiseaseDoctorsTreatsMedicineDiets Author:Sun Simiao
“When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You have a political cancer that breeds cynicism about democratic government and infects all of society.” PeopleGovernmentPoliticalProcessMoralFailingTreatsDemocraticCancerCorruptionRoutineCynicismWrongdoingDemocratic Government Author:Edward Brooke
“Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat failure, too. There's something to learn from it. I've had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures: What kind of failure was it? A failure because it's misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?” IfsKindFeltLosesFailingTreatsRelativeMisunderstood Author:Al Pacino
“Near counts more than far, familiar more than different. Such is the indictment against the press, that it fails to treat similar tragedies with equal dignity.” DifferentFailingEqualDignityTreatsTragedyPressesFamiliarIndictment Author:David Folkenflik
“You can never err by treating everyone in the building with respect, thoughtfulness, and a kind word. Everyone of our employees is an essential employee. Every one of them wants to be viewed that way. And if you treat them that way, they will view you that way. They will not let you down or let you fail. They will accomplish whatever you have put in front of them.” IfsWayWantKindViewsFailingFrontsBuildingEssentialsTreatsAccomplishEmployeeKind WordsThoughtfulness Author:Colin Powell
“The attempt to live that way, the attempt to treat everybody - it fails all the time - but the attempt to treat people as equals is a good attempt. It's a very good attempt. And there have been very few governments that have come anywhere near it in the past. The Greeks began to, the Romans began to - they both failed.” PeopleWayHas BeensGovernmentPastFailingTreatsVery GoodGreek Author:W. S. Merwin