#ran

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#army #created #fight #first #five

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#appearance #artificial #background #book #calculated

Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#box #box office #course #discussion #does

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#long-range #manager #perspective #view

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#ignorance #law #lawyers #only #persons

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#apart #far #never #tyranny

I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating. ↗

— Julie Benz

#figure #figure skating #full #i #i think

I'm pretty upfront about my love and admiration for the military. One of the perks of making movies is that you get to sort of follow your own passions, and I believe quite passionately that we don't pay enough attention and respect to our veterans. Not just our wounded veterans, but all veterans. ↗

— Peter Berg

#admiration #attention #believe #enough #follow

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but. ↗

— John Berger

#becomes #connected #difficult #fond #glad

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all. ↗

— John Berger

#character #death #itself #modern #notion