#though

Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#chose #even #even now #made #make

I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite. ↗

— Leo Baekeland

#came #could #different #different shapes #first

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#breath #deeds #each #god #good

Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work. ↗

— Oksana Baiul

#although #different #different things #difficult #double

I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#choose #conferences #could #delegates #essential

For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me. ↗

— Daniel Baldwin

#addict #am #before #call #cell

I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good. ↗

— Daniel Baldwin

#aired #being #bit #celebrity #constantly

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#else #exactly #like #money #nothing

There is zero debate about whether the world is getting warmer. That is a fact, a measured fact. There is some debate, although not much anymore, about what's causing the world to get warmer. And the consensus, by far is that it's us. ↗

— Peter Barnes

#although #anymore #causing #consensus #debate

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. ↗

— Jane Austen

#being #i #life #my life #practice