#ives

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control. ↗

— Robert Foster Bennett

#born #charge #control #desire #each

There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with would endanger America and the prospects of eventual peace in the Middle East. ↗

— Robert Foster Bennett

#america #been #before #currently #dealt

But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#been #hard #important #leave #lives

And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of his holy war. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#children #compound #died #end #far

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#being #inscribed #lives #open #register

Faith is not a thing which one "loses," we merely cease to shape our lives by it. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#faith #lives #loses #merely #our

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. ↗

— Henry Beston

#away #banishment #depth #emotion #experience

I don't think anyone doubts my motives, really. I do what I do and it's not very complicated. Of course, you might hate the music that I make, but I don't think people feel threatened by me just getting on with what I'm up to. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#complicated #course #doubts #feel #getting

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#buy #consumerism #getting #improve #lives

My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work. ↗

— Leslie Bibb

#died #four #had #having #her