#own

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda. ↗

— Harry Browne

#casualty #during #first #forsaken #known

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#add #extra #friend #i #just

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#grapes #i #i do #i dream #include

My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#cows #dad #eighth #eighth grade #four

Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested. ↗

— Jack Bruce

#also #although #because #big #big companies

I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

#cannon #else #hate #i #nothing

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today. ↗

— Isambard K. Brunel

#bridges #conditions #construction #down #embarrassed

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity. ↗

— Steven Brust

#avoid #before #called #conform #conformity

When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset register, which was immediately dubbed by the boomers of the UK Treasury 'the modern Domesday Book.' ↗

— James Buchan

#book #boomers #brown #commissioned #dubbed

But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#back #down #felt #getting #give