#vic

I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#angry #i #i am #survivor #victim

I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#being #dislike #had #husband #i

Listen to people and treat people as you find them. There's an inherent goodness in most people. Don't pre-judge people - that was me Mam's advice anyway. ↗

— Sean Bean

#anyway #find #goodness #inherent #listen

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#chewing #chewing gum #close #device #gum

I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#because #citizen #does #good #good citizen

I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility. ↗

— Boris Becker

#accepted #advice #arranged #child #dna

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#after #given #giving #honestly #indifferent

Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life. ↗

— Lucy Grealy

#life #self-consciousness #sharp #torture #life

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#become #companies #creates #global #good

UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#called #children #ensure #exists #food