#lives

But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#beginning #beings #chaotic #contrary #depressing

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection. ↗

— Richard Bach

#burns #fire #jonathan #little #lives

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly. ↗

— James Baldwin

#beauty #because #here #live #lived

I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too much about me. If we don't know about the private lives of other actors, that leaves us as clean slates when it comes to playing characters. That's the point, they can create these other characters and I can believe them. ↗

— Christian Bale

#believe #characters #clean #comes #create

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#been #brought #happy #i #laughter

It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives. ↗

— Ed Balls

#change #changed #country #error #had

Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary. ↗

— Ann Bancroft

#become #certain #certain point #come #critics

At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe. ↗

— Lance Bass

#believe #every #feel #i #i believe

If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in their duty, the only thing to prevent them failing in their duty is the fear that they would be put behind bars. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#bars #behind #companies #corporations #duty

How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#baby #before #birth #born #come