B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“By using formula in filmmaking we are admitting that film is not art.”
“By using general consumption PPPs, the World Bank is, in effect, saying to the poor: "Sure, you cannot buy as much food as the dollar value we attribute to your income would buy in the United States. But then you can buy much more by way of services than you could buy with this PPP equivalent in the United States." But what consolation is this? The poor do not buy services - they are services, on their luckier days.”
“By using literature to expose the lie of love, its false pretense of unconditional generosity and kindness, I would be proving yet again that literature is the only magnanimous host in this piddling universe.”
Source: Call Me Zebra
“By using money as the scapegoat and work as our all-consuming routine, we are able to conveniently disallow ourselves to do otherwise: 'John, I'd love to talk about the gaping void I feel in my life, the hopelessness that hits me like a punch in the eye every time I start my computer in the morning, but I have so much work to do! I've got at least three hours of unimportant email to reply to before calling prospects who said 'no' yesterday. Gotta run!”
“By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.”
“By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.”
Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918
“By using power, money, fraud, the enemy is interested in gaining control over the world of Islam.”
“By using propaganda skillfully any delusion can become fact.”
“By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.”
Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
“By using the faculties of the mind constantly, it is being exercised to develop mental powers and stamina. When the mind is not used for a long period or stretched regularly with bigger ideas and new concepts, it starts to crystallize and atrophy.”
“By using the systems archetypes we can learn how to “structure” the details into a coherent picture of the forces at play.”
“By using User in the Loop, where you as the User literally become part of the programming yourself, you never really know where the edges of the entities are. You cannot tell where the script ends, and the recombi-natorials begin.”
Source: Primer for Alien Contact
“By using vertical space more effectively, you not only make more room for greenery but shorter commutes also mean less pressure on CO2 emission problems and by freeing up time now spent on unproductive commuter trains, people would have more options in their lives.”
“By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.”
Source: Collected Works
“By using your heart as your compass, you can see more clearly which direction to go to stop self-defeating behavior. If you take just one mental or emotional habit that really bothers or drains you and apply heart intelligence to it, you'll see a noticeable difference in your life.”
“By using your intelligence, you can sometimes make your problems twice as complicated.”
“By utility is meant that property is any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness(all this in the present case come to the same thing) or (what comes again to the same thing) to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil or unhappiness to the party who whose is considered: if that party be the community in general, then the happiness of the community; if a particular individual; then the happiness of that individual”
Source: The Principles of Morals and Legislation
“By utilizing various channels such as the school website, email, and parent orientation meetings, schools can ensure that parents receive clear and comprehensive information about the fee structure.”
“By validating and aggregating the best material from a wide range of independent and mainstream content owners, Babelgum aims to encourage common interest communities that are not well served by traditional television.”
“By various agencies, unintentional and designed, a society transforms uninitiated and seemingly alien beings into robust trustees of its own resources and ideals. Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating, process.”
Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education
“By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth - scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create products we use in our daily lives.”
“By very definition this wilderness is a need. The idea of wilderness as an area without man's influence is man's own concept. Its values are human values. Its preservation is a purpose that arises out of man's own sense of his fundamental needs”
Source: Where Wilderness Preservation Began: Adirondack Writings of Howard Zahniser
“By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.”
“By viewing our relationships with friends, family, and co-workers as mirrors, as teachers - we see that they are reflecting back to us exactly what we most need to learn.”
“By viewing the body as a machine, I have used my technical background as an engineer to maximize the efficiency of the human diet. Through the lens of my training in chemical engineering, I have concluded that the human organic machine achieves maximal productivity on a predominantly plant-based diet. As a result of this conclusion, I have been able to develop exceptional strength and muscle mass not despite, but because I consume a plant-based diet.”
Source: The Living Machine: Engineering Strength with a Plant-Based Diet
“By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.”
“By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.”
“By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.”
“By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.”
Source: The Divine Milieu
“By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.”
“By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others.”
“By virtue of his dominance over nature, man can also combine souls, and engraft the essence of one upon another. Thus he inspires that which his hands have worked on, and equips his implements with qualities calculated to render them useful in their calling. When be fastens a bunch of feathers to his arrow, he gives its flight the accuracy of a bird, perhaps also something of a bird's
force in swooping on its prey; as surely as he gives himself a touch of birdnature by fastening feathers about his body. Or he may, in the strength of his artistic faculty, content himself with a presentment of nature. He chisels a serpent on his sword, lays “a blood-painted worm along the edge” so that it
“winds its tail about the neck of the sword”, and then lets the sword “bite”. Or be
may use another form of art, he can “sing” a certain nature into his weapon. He tempers it in the fire, forges it with art and craft, whets it, ornaments it, and “lays on it the word” that it shall be a serpent to bite, a fire to eat its way. So also he builds his ship with the experience of a shipbuilder, paints it, sets perhaps a beast at the prow, and commands that it shall tread sure-footed as a horse upon
the water. Naturally, the mere words are not enough, if there is no luck in them; they take effect only if the speaker can make them whole. How he contrives to accomplish this is a question too deep to enter into here, but as we learn to know him, we may perhaps seize upon one little secret after another.”
Source: The Culture of the Teutons: Volumes 1 and 2
“by virtue of living
in a racist world
nonblack people are
raised to be antiblack
we are all taught that
lighter is better
- undoing”
Source: Home Body
“By virtue of love is the lover transformed in the beloved and the beloved transformed in the lover.”
Source: Divine Consolation
“By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.”
“By virtue of rewarding precocity - expecting kids to be able to read and write when they begin Primary 1, for example - the school system values its role in sorting ahead of its role in teaching.”
“By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.”
“By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs by vested interests.”
Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“by virtue of writing
we convey vital knowledge
to those still to come...
long after we've left...”
“By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.”
“By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes, a sort of information map. And when you’re lost in information, an information map is kind of useful.”
“By voicing what I think and feel
I release the pain
and let my heart heal.”
— Finding My Voice”
Source: I'm Not My Story: A Poetic Journey of Healing
“By voluntarily adopting a dominated body posture you display the fact that you have accepted to be inferior.”
Source: James Bond`s Unshakable Confidence: Mission Pack
“By voting for a candidate, we're not endorsing a particular lifestyle. We're simply voting on the issues.”
“By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions.”
“By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Memorial Address Delivered at the Lincoln Centennial Celebration of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
“By waging the drug war and "getting tough" almost exclusively in the 'hood, we've managed to create a vast new racial undercaste in an astonishingly short period of time.”
“By walking a long time in an environment, landscapes begin to influence on your mood, as( landscapes) change, your feelings do.”
“By walking naked you gain far more than coolness. You feel an unexpected sense of freedom from restraint. An uplifting and almost delirious sense of simplicity. In this new simplicity you soon find that you have become, in a new and surer sense, and integral part of the simple, complex world you are walking through. And then you are really walking.”
Source: The Complete Walker IV
“By walking on the path of unhappiness you can learn the things that can never be learned on the path of happiness! He who knows well only the light is very poor; he who knows well the darkness besides the light is very rich!”