#is

We have been helping, trying to help Afghanistan in many ways, even from the beginning of... the beginnings of the '20s, 1920s, when he we were fighting our own national struggle. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#been #beginning #beginnings #even #fighting

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#because #beforehand #conscious #definition #investigate

I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America. ↗

— Pat Benatar

#finger #had #i #literally #pulse

A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops. ↗

— Johnny Bench

#catcher #drops #got #his #horse

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal. ↗

— Peter Benchley

#guess #hopeful #i #optimist #pessimist

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#difficult #first #front #getting #given

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#author #becomes #been #book #dead

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. ↗

— Sidney Hook

#consequences #human #human values #kind #knowledge

In the history of comics and movies and music too, it's always when things are at their bottomed-out, either creatively or financially, there's more chance-taking going on. ↗

— Brian Michael Bendis

#comics #creatively #either #financially #going

Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate. ↗

— William Floyd

#despotism #destruction #families #fate #fear