#ny

Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid. ↗

— Clara Bow

#did #even #even now #i #kid

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#about #absolutely #absolutely nothing #fairly #great

Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate. ↗

— William Floyd

#despotism #destruction #families #fate #fear

Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government. ↗

— Peter Benenson

#because #being #day #executed #find

I do benefits. I do them all the time. There's so many people out there that needs help that I can't say I won't help them. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#help #i #i do #many #needs

I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of. ↗

— George Bentham

#botany #career #decided #determination #devote

The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring. ↗

— Milton Berle

#company #dollars #million #quarter #retiring

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny. ↗

— Irving Berlin

#corny #element #enough #every #idea

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#any #characteristic #essence #explanations #full

The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President. ↗

— Francis Biddle

#bothered #constitution #greatly #president #wartime