#were

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#civilization #creeds #deadly #first #history

The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target. ↗

— Douglas Bader

#close #did #fire #open #pilots

He wasn't really Method but he believed that when you did a role there were lots of things you could do with your co-star in order to create the right environment. You known, if you were supposed to be in love, to create that feeling between the two of you. ↗

— Jane Badler

#between #could #create #did #environment

Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I eventually morphed back into one. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#baby #back #day #differently #eventually

Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters. ↗

— Beryl Bainbridge

#being #blisters #children #constantly #expensive

It's a werewolf movie with Christina Ricci, and it was a chance to work with some good people. But playing yourself is always fairly risky because you gotta watch how you goof on yourself. ↗

— Scott Baio

#because #chance #christina #fairly #good

We've always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame. ↗

— Mitchell Baker

#been #certain #certain time #commercial #development

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms. ↗

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#cold #dawn #evening #flowers #frivolity

The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#contractors #draw #failing #filthy #habitually

It is my hope that during my brief passage through this universe, that I may share with you the joy of hearing the music of the stars... knowing that the composer was from a distant place and the songs were written eons ago, which now fall gently on this place for all to hear. ↗

— Richard H. Baker

#brief #composer #distant #during #fall