#les

I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#be grateful #down #film #getting #grateful

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#christian #christian right #humanism #movements #reacting

Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#beliefs #between #broad #broad range #change

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. ↗

— Cyrano de Bergerac

#apples #arrogance #been #beings #benefit

I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#decided #films #going #had #i

Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#condition #creature #expression #heartless #once

I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#approach #approaches #demonstrated #depression #fails

The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates, you could increase the efficiency of the tax code and create more incentives for people to invest. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#closing #code #corporate #could #create

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations. ↗

— Claude Bernard

#day #every #every day #experimental #forever

Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring. ↗

— Jeffrey Bernard

#being #boring #dead #down #drinking