#rio

Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability. ↗

— Ehud Barak

#long-term #most #poses #regional #serious

The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that. ↗

— Haley Barbour

#american #american history #been #biggest #congress

Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#america #attention #block #curiosity #english

I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit. ↗

— Gary Barlow

#bit #comes #good #good time #having

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins. ↗

— Clara Barton

#blood #father #patriot #veins #warm

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#aspects #comfortable #compliance #dissent #encourage

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#being #between #clear #considering #deficiency

The dissolution of the Party - we will not let such a tremendous, big, and glorious party be so easily crashed: this would then be the moment, when we would begin to fight on all fronts. ↗

— Otto Bauer

#big #crashed #dissolution #easily #fight

When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity. ↗

— Martha Beck

#curiosity #genuine #meet #people #real

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#accorded #animal #been #brings #forth