#lis

It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer. ↗

— Leslie Banks

#blessing #faith #friends #hear #kept

At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction. ↗

— William Banting

#editor #further #i #individual #insignificant

Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#america #attention #block #curiosity #english

Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy. ↗

— Fred Barnes

#accomplish #achieving #advocating #candidates #conflicting

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#fatalism #inevitable #lazy #man #way

Since I learned English, I've become a motormouth! ↗

— Ana Beatriz Barros

#english #i #learned #since

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#creates #establishes #itself #man #offers

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#einstein #formula #image #knowledge #mythology

Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do. ↗

— Clara Barton

#economy #fail #fortune #hand #life

A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#belgium #central #countries #country #education