#nat

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#be humble #greatness #height #higher #humble

If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power. ↗

— Preston Brooks

#desired #did #had #him #i

Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things. ↗

— Big Bill Broonzy

#cry #fact #fellow #forgotten #get

We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine. ↗

— Pierce Brosnan

#better #children #environment #imagine #our

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling. ↗

— Chester Brown

#came #got #i #idea #improvisational

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human. ↗

— Clancy Brown

#atrocities #beliefs #color #creed #happen

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure. ↗

— Thomas Edward Brown

#calling #comes #countrymen #field #giving

Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate. ↗

— Harry Browne

#compassionate #concerned #effective #forcing #generous

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#carry #certain #characters #faces #may

Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music. ↗

— Avery Brundage

#like #music #phenomenon #science