#ives

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#battle #blood #engaged #first #flows

To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#advisable #attributes #expect #interactions #least

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#changed #ending #gives #like #meaning

If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in their duty, the only thing to prevent them failing in their duty is the fear that they would be put behind bars. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#bars #behind #companies #corporations #duty

How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#baby #before #birth #born #come

I love working for the people of Indiana. I love helping our citizens make the most of their lives, but I do not love Congress. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#congress #for the people #helping #i #i do

It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#clear #engage #initiatives #issues #public

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#assume #children #come #conception #grinding

No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#believe #conservatives #find #guaranteed #happen

To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives that look perfect. They try to be happy, they believe they should be happy, they are trying to like it, but if it's off course from their north star, they aren't satisfied. ↗

— Martha Beck

#believe #course #dying #form #happy