#line

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#did #end #failure #hide #i

As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of. ↗

— Iain Banks

#clever #come #comebacks #get #lines

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work. ↗

— Russell Banks

#attention #become #dedicate #discipline #hanging

The surest test of discipline is its absence. ↗

— Clara Barton

#discipline #surest #test

It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#army #arrogance #because #been #boring

The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#beliefs #between #certitude #different #different beliefs

Having gone through so many of the personal things I've gone through, its about creating an (online) space for girls to be heard. I don't profess to have all the answers. But Ask Elizabeth is a space where girls are not alone. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#alone #answers #ask #creating #elizabeth

Writing is an antidote for loneliness. ↗

— Steven Berkoff

#loneliness #writing

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#alone #badly #be true #belongs #cannot

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#business #businesses #expect #impact #important