#un

Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#deceit #defenselessness #double-standards #falsehood #hypocrisy

It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#any #bad #chronicle #day #days

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#film #film industry #i #industry #television

Throughout my career I have been pretty successful, I've played for some pretty big teams, represented my country quite a few times, and played for managers without sentiment. ↗

— David Beckham

#big #career #country #few #i

I keep fit by running after my three boys all day. ↗

— Victoria Beckham

#all day #day #fit #i #keep

What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade. ↗

— Victoria Beckham

#david #does #fade #funny #good

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#contained #deity #infinite #ourselves #space

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#audacity #everything #undertake

It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me. ↗

— Kate Beckinsale

#business #day #especially #every #every day

I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around. ↗

— Kate Beckinsale

#along #around #been #doing #glad