#live

The "what should be" never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no "what should be," there is only what is. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

#exist #keep #live #never #only

The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#basic #because #collapses #culture #embraces

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#birth #born #conscious #death #dies

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#alive #almost #cowardly #dangerous #dead

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#another way #feelings #lives #making #music

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#enough #fools #knaves #live #more

In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished. ↗

— James Buchan

#altogether #between #both #cities #distinction

Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing. ↗

— James Buchan

#also #colossal #converted #else #europe

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#concept #defining #feminism #gave #gift

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#dry #i #inside #live #myself