#stand

Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#company #dance #ever #expensive #furthers

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death. ↗

— George P. Baker

#come #death #elizabethan #ending #far

It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#forces #move #natural #own #seek

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#cults #desire #even #exotic #experiment

Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I'm addressing it. I'm doing the work that I have to do. ↗

— Daniel Baldwin

#am #doing #good #i #i am

I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#beneath #creature #dedicated #go #going

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#avarice #beauty #bid #both #disinterested

If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#away #both #center #cross #does

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness. ↗

— Iain Banks

#argue #consciousness #could #exhibit #find

Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence. ↗

— Daniel Barenboim

#democracy #escaping #first #first step #full