#kin

I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep. ↗

— George Best

#drinking #i #only #stopped #while

I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context. ↗

— Joseph Beuys

#completely #context #enterprise #future #go

Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship. ↗

— Peter Bichsel

#dictatorship #heart #house #king #least

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation. ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

#any #cannot #condemned #divine #find

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#money #poverty #progress #wealth #money

We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil and gas from other sources as raw materials. ↗

— Hassanal Bolkiah

#considering #downstream #gas #import #industries

The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely. ↗

— Robert Bolt

#citizen #instrument #keeps #kind #law

I'm a kid that went to theater school. I thought I was going to be making my living doing plays regionally or in New York or on Broadway, and maybe if I got lucky I would do a movie here or there. ↗

— Matt Bomer

#doing #going #got #here #i

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts. ↗

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

#bridges #build #conflicts #create #knowledge

Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#anonymity #around #away #i #just