#ann

For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#cannot #controllable #dimensions #economic forces #forces

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#any #cannot #constrained #discipline #form

It was a romantic tale saying we were more than our bodies our soul lives on after death. We shed the outer body but the important bits the soul and heart lives on for eternity ↗

— Annette J. Dunlea

#annette-j-dunlea #irish-writer #death

I've given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies. To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies. You wanna talk about the nanny state? I think we just got the new definition of a nanny. ↗

— Michele Bachmann

#babies #birth #buy #definition #every

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#cannot #command #except #her #obeying

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#neighbor #next-door #next-door neighbor #real #talk

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#cannot #doing #great pleasure #life #people

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself. ↗

— Pearl Bailey

#belong #cannot #else #until #you

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#doing #greatest #greatest pleasure #life #people

In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed... I managed to escape unscathed though, I'm pretty good at that. ↗

— David Bailey

#escape #feel #good #guinea #i