#bette

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#asks #because #better #catholicity #celebrated

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#broke #calculation #child #cold #front

You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else. By annihilating them and, therefore, your shadow, you bring yourself into some state of purity or reformation. ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#annihilating #better #bring #else #evil

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#better man #butterflies #ever #i #man

As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress. ↗

— Kate Beckinsale

#better #feel #more #mother #much

I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night. ↗

— Ed Belfour

#been #better #contributing #everybody #games

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#accompanied #always #any #better #drawbacks

And, in the case of schools, or anything else, if you have something that is forcing you to do better than you did the day before, it makes you look forward and it makes you think in a way that's going to make the product better, which is the students and the education. ↗

— Craig Benson

#before #better #case #day #did

I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex. ↗

— Robert Benton

#her #i #know #law #like

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth. ↗

— Daniel Bernoulli

#earth #mathematicians #physics #true #were