#pre

Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#community #get #happens #main #preoccupation

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised. ↗

— Carl Bernstein

#compete #creates #else #environment #fear

Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#comes #dance #getting #just #leaving

People have criticised me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are. ↗

— Marion Berry

#assure #because #criticised #detail #i

If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#back #concerns #directly #eat #fairly

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act. ↗

— Annie Besant

#better #even #prepared #remain #silent

Two premature babies was not a genetic thing; we were just unlucky. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#genetic #just #premature #thing #two

Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I've been relatively - presumptuous to say - relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle. ↗

— Joe Biden

#aisle #been #being #cross #democratic

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#decay #life #pickle #preserving #spiritual

I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#arbiter #believe #court #federal #final