#vita

I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring. ↗

— Kate Beckinsale

#boring #drink #i #i do #insufferable

The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary civilians caught up in the battle. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#battle #because #below #caught #civilians

Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#becomes #capitalistic #chinese #democratic #economy

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#advantage #build #follow #govern #hand

The review process was conducted in an extremely bipartisan manner. Minority members of the Judiciary Committee were responsible for the invitation of 1/3 of the witnesses who appeared. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#bipartisan #committee #conducted #extremely #invitation

Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#attempt #brought #catastrophes #course #felt

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#any #inevitable #language #more #state

The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

#artists #cassette #cd #changed #consumed

There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures. ↗

— Steven Brust

#die #each #earth #fail #failures

If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another? ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#body #countless #deaths #find #grain