#mis

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#change #characters #choose #count #friends

Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality. ↗

— Allen Boyd

#armed forces #benefits #care #education #existed

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#benefit #biochemistry #career #travel #unexpected

I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#ask #bullets #either #friends #fun

The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#broke #consideration #elemental #leading #means

It's not going to be easy; Enterprise IT has spent decades growing a defensive culture based on the premise that you only get noticed when you screw up, so that must be avoided at all costs. ↗

— Tim Bray

#based #costs #culture #decades #defensive

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#enough #good #life #living #miserable

When you make mistakes during routines, it's not easy getting through them. ↗

— Alicia Sacramone

#easy #getting #make #mistakes #routines

We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors. ↗

— David Bromstad

#colors #happy #optimistic #popular #purple

It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation. ↗

— Earle Brown

#creation #creative #degree #general #generosity