#met

Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#become #celebration #conference #date #day

The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met. ↗

— Chet Baker

#else #ever #i #inspired #like

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else. ↗

— George P. Baker

#else #felt #human #human being #immature

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death. ↗

— George P. Baker

#come #death #elizabethan #ending #far

They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion. ↗

— Ginger Baker

#birth #case #credited #heavy #heavy metal

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never. ↗

— James Baker

#advanced #best #doing #never #nothing

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. ↗

— James Baker

#privately #publicly #quietly #sometimes #top

Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened. ↗

— Kenneth Baker

#came #causes #economists #had #happened

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#bars #being #consciousness #courage #deal

In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#believe #believed #did #economic #encouragement