All Quotes

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.
‐‐ Thorstein Veblen

The basis on which the Good Friday agreement was constructed was in addressing those problems in the history of Northern Ireland, the social and constitutional problems as well as the military problems that have been unaddressed for centuries.
‐‐ John Reid

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.
‐‐ Robert Toombs

The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn.
‐‐ Merlin Olsen

The bass is just the crayon that I picked out of the box. I'd probably be writing similar stuff if I played guitar or trumpet. The pictures I want to draw I do with this crayon I chose, which is the bass.
‐‐ Les Claypool

The bass line is the anchor for me. I started with the bass, and either doubled that and then added the harmonies, or sometimes added my own harmonies that I've always wanted to sing on the song. And then it just went on from there - singing violin parts and trumpet parts and just trying to emulate the sounds of the instruments.
‐‐ Petra Haden

The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.
‐‐ Charlie Haden

The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.
‐‐ Suzi Quatro

The bass should be the note of the bass drum, and then you've got the engine of the band that everything else builds on. Everything else, the guitar, the keyboards, is a colour.
‐‐ Suzi Quatro

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.
‐‐ Roland Barthes

The bat is not a toy, it's a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.
‐‐ Virat Kohli

The bathing suits they had me wear on Baywatch were all one-pieces, which kill my figure.
‐‐ Nicole Eggert

The Batiste family is a large musical family in Louisiana, out in New Orleans. People go to New Orleans, and if they go to any club, four days out of the week I guarantee you that you will find a Batiste playing in the ensemble.
‐‐ Jon Batiste

The batsman does not always need to create big hits. He can hit a boundary, then pick up some singles and still gets nine runs. To avoid that, I need to plan in a way where he must look to hit wherever there is a fielder. That is what is called 'bowling to the field.'
‐‐ Harbhajan Singh

The battalion, the whole battalion was affected by the two killed just within a week of being there, and I think that that pulled everybody up to make them realise that this was a very serious business.
‐‐ Peter Scott

The batteries are gradually becoming charged, and if the prudence of the government does not provide an outlet for the currents that are accumulating, some day the spark will be generated.
‐‐ Jose Rizal

The battle against cancer has made me strong. It's like winning a war! When I was diagnosed, I was told by doctors my kidney, liver and other organs could fail. It was tough. I didn't know if I could save my life. But I was positive, and because of that, the doctor told me that I would be a man who would never have cancer.
‐‐ Yuvraj Singh

The battle against terrorism is not only a military fight but primarily a battle of information.
‐‐ Ahmed Chalabi

The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land. It is all about desire. There is no difference between a love triangle and the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
‐‐ Bruno Dumont

The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but I'm not giving up, and I'm not gonna engage in phony pep talks, either.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
‐‐ Eleanor Roosevelt

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.
‐‐ Peggy Noonan

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
‐‐ Margaret Thatcher

The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No, the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen

The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
‐‐ Hamilton Jordan

The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
‐‐ Napoleon Hill

The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.
‐‐ Arthur C. Brooks

The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte

'The Battle of Dorking' was reprinted as a book and became a best-seller.
‐‐ Tom Reiss

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
‐‐ Samuel Smiles

The battle of the euro is being fought right now in Spain and Italy. The future of the euro is at stake in the next weeks.
‐‐ Luis de Guindos

The battle of Varus is an enigma, not in a military but in a political point of view - not in its course, but in its consequences.
‐‐ Theodor Mommsen

The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
‐‐ Arthur Wellesley

The battle over genetically modified crops is rife with business interests and political opportunism. When GMOs were first produced in laboratories around the world, they were rightly heralded as a tremendous leap forward in our ability to supplement nature by providing high-nutrient foods.
‐‐ Richard J. Roberts

The battle to find a workplace that's wheelchair accessible is a feat in itself, let alone an employer who's going to be cool about employing someone with a disability in a job you actually want to do.
‐‐ Stella Young

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.
‐‐ James Weldon Johnson

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte

The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith traditions in all parts of the world.
‐‐ Feisal Abdul Rauf

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
‐‐ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.
‐‐ Jesse Owens

The Bay Area definitely knows the pain of competing for, and retaining, top talent. Offering interesting perks has become a necessity, not a nice-to-have.
‐‐ Paige Craig

The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.
‐‐ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The Bay of Pigs is one of America's most infamous Cold War blunders, and it has been studied, debated, and dramatized endlessly ever since.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

The Bay of Pigs was an operation the United States endorsed. That was a preventive operation. We were afraid that Castro was going to subvert the hemisphere.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

The BBC can be infuriating at times but I love it with a passion.
‐‐ John Sweeney

The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.
‐‐ Andrew Davies

The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.
‐‐ Jonathan Dimbleby

The BBC is a victim of its own independence.
‐‐ Graham Norton

The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.
‐‐ Iain Duncan Smith