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Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within. ↗

— Phyllis Bottome

#altered #come #interference #must #neither

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done. ↗

— Mary Frances Berry

#else #need #people #saying #something

I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion. ↗

— Raymond Berry

#appreciate #back #coming #forward #i

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#bad #better #definition #escape #good

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#been #boy #bright #cut #deep

Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#anything #because #child #divorce #fault

Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#because #go #goals #i #lap

Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war. ↗

— Donald Berwick

#care #come #companies #compete #competition

So, my sweetheart back home writes to me and wants to know what this gal in Bombay's got that she hasn't got. So I just write back to her and says, Nothin', honey. Only she's got it here. ↗

— Alvah Bessie

#bombay #gal #got #hasn #her

I'm always attracted by people who are lost in their time. I think it helps us. ↗

— Luc Besson

#attracted #helps #i #i think #lost