#were

You don't really see ugly people that are old, or a bit grotty and smelly, in the media. If a Martian came down, they would think we were all tall, thin, attractive and wealthy. ↗

— Jo Brand

#bit #came #down #martian #media

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to - act as if it were impossible to fail. ↗

— Dorothea Brande

#break #fail #frustration #impossible #inertia

At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#concerning #exchange #geneva #ideas #itself

I worked with people I admire; Josh Lucas, who I'd worked with many many years ago on a pilot called The Class of 61 and Kurt Russell, and so there were a variety of different people that I enjoyed working with. ↗

— Andre Braugher

#ago #called #class #different #different people

When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#channels #day #down #end #end of the day

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again. ↗

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

#answered #come #dry #expect #hope

Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child. ↗

— Layne Staley

#child #closest #death #devastated #enough

We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no. ↗

— Edie Brickell

#been #better #enough #had #helped

Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where. ↗

— Robert Bridges

#cloud #fly #gather #i #know

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster. ↗

— William Throsby Bridges

#disaster #doing #first #first step #make