#ran

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

When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#become #branches #case #certain #cultures

I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give. ↗

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

#being #being nice #business #clear #each

So here, at Arsenal, we are often surprised when we are shown some of the newspapers, and at the bottom of an article there is a line saying if you know of anyone who had an affair with a player, call this number. It is very strange to us. ↗

— Dennis Bergkamp

#anyone #arsenal #article #bottom #call

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#cured #evils #fighting #goals #ignorance

Iran is actively pursuing the development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles. ↗

— Howard Berman

#ballistic #destruction #development #iran #mass

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#company #earn #hard #hard things #like

It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that. ↗

— Jeffrey Bernard

#boring #day #dropping #drunk #dylan

Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull? ↗

— William Bernbach

#because #do you know #dull #get #good