B Quotes
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“By walking on the right path, you create a golden fate for yourself and you also become a silver lining for the others!”
“By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind sees the path”
“By walking, I found out where I was going.”
Source: A Wild Peculiar Joy: The Selected Poems
“By wanting the things that you don’t have, in order to be happy, you are not trying to end the suffering you have, you are simply trying to rationalize it. When you have those things, you will realize your suffering did not end. Only the reasons for it have changed.”
Source: Modern Human's Handbook
“By Warrior I do not mean one who loves war or draws sadistic pleasure from fighting or bloodshed. There is a difference between a warrior and a brute. A warrior is a protector... Men stand tallest when they are protecting and defending.”
Source: Tender Warrior
“By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.”
“By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“By way of parenthesis, let us remark that Saint Alphonsus says: "It will suffice to keep silent"; he wishes to indicate that it is profitable to do more than fly under Mary's mantle, viz., not only to show our confidence, homage, and love by just being there, but to practice that fourth and perfecting element of Marian devotion: imitation. By rendering homage to Mary we give Her our minds; by confidence we giver our wills; by love we give our hearts. Such is true but . To be perfect we must sell all and follow Mary; we must give Her our whole selves by imitation. Later the reader will see how the Scapular renders this perfection of devotion to Our Lady very easy; he is now concerned with is what is sufficient and we return to the consideration of Mary's Promise only in so far as it is a means of salvation. (chapter four)”
Source: Mary in Her Scapular Promise
“By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them”
“By way of watching your mind, you will see life beyond a mere set of habits, emotions and beliefs.”
Source: Unbound Intelligence: A Personal Guide to Self-Discovery
“By weaponizing the discourse of human rights to justify the use of force against governments that resisted the Washington consensus, this group of well-connected liberals was able to stir support where the neocons could not. Their brand of interventionism appealed directly to the sensibility of the Democratic Party's metropolitan base, large swaths of academia, the foundation-funded human rights NGO complex, and the New York Times editorial board. The xhibition of atrocities allegedly committed by adversarial governments, either by Western-funded civil society groups, major human rights organizations or the mainstream press, was the military humanists' stock in trade, enabling them to mask imperial designs behind a patina of "genocide prevention." With this neat tactic, they effectively neutralized progressive antiwar elements and tarred those who dared to protest their wars as dictator apologists.”
Source: The Management of Savagery: How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump
“By wearing clothes and footwear only when they are absolutely necessary, you may be able to reclaim your sense of freedom and your connection to your surroundings.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“By weaving their thoughts and feelings into the substance of reality, the Weavers had ensured anyone writing about them would secure an instant bestseller – which wasn’t particularly difficult, considering the Weavers held the strings on the one holding the pen.
Those who controlled the Pattern, controlled reality.”
Source: The Weaver of Odds
“By weaving your passion and unique skills with a need or cause, and standing with the people you want to serve, you will be well-positioned to make a meaningful dent in the world.”
“By welcoming eager, talented workers, we expand America's potential for growth, and our competitive culture of invention and possibility.”
“By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?”
“By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?”
Source: Philosphical Discussions
“By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values.”
Source: The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers
“By what instinct do you pretend to distinguish between a fallen seraph of the abyss and a messenger from the eternal throne, between a guide and a seducer”
Source: Jane Eyre
“By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.”
Source: The Mists of Avalon
“By what peculiar twist of perception, I wondered, had I managed to see the plowed fields and second-growth forests of southern Wisconsin—a landscape of former prairies now long vanished—as somehow more “natural” than the streets, buildings, and parks of Chicago? All represented drastic human alterations of earlier landscapes.”
Source: Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
“By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?”
“By what right does White, in an absolutely even position, such as after move one, when both sides have advanced 1. e4, sacrifice a pawn, whose recapture is quite uncertain, and open up his kingside to attack? And then follow up this policy by leaving the check of the black queen open? None whatever!”
“By what route do otherwise sane men come to believe such palpable nonsense? How is it possible for a human brain to be divided into two insulated halves, one functioning normally, naturally
and even brilliantly, and the other capable only of such ghastly balderdash which issues from the minds of Baptist evangelists?”
“By what route the infant Hansen found his way to the Jesuits, the file did not relate. Perhaps the mother converted. Those were dark years still, and if expediency required it, she may have swallowed her Protestant convictions to buy the boy a decent education. Give the Jesuits his soul, she may have reasoned, and they will give him a brain. Or perhaps she sensed in her son from early on the mercurial nature that later ruled his life, and she determined to subordinate him to a stronger religious discipline than was offered by the easy-going Protestants. If so, she was wise.”
Source: The Secret Pilgrim
“By what sort of experience are we led to the conviction that spirit exists? On the whole, by searching, painful experience. The rose Religion grows on a thorn-bush, and we must not be afraid to have our fingers lacerated by the thorns if we would pluck the rose.”
“By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?”
“By what you decide to put on your body, for example, you're already making a personal judgement. That's an incredible thing that happens...we set our own standards even before we walk out the door. Most of the time, those standards are self insulting. Most of the time we belittle ourselves, because we can't have the things we think we're suppose to have. That's what we've bought into.”
“By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.”
“By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.”
Source: Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge
“By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.”
Source: The Courage to Create
“By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage `Thou art all' and `Thy will be done'.”
Source: Day by Day with Bhagavan: From a Diary of A. Devaraja Mudaliar, Covering March 16, 1945 to January 4, 1947
“By which I get my wealth--
And very gladly will I drink
Your Honour's noble health.”
Source: Through the Looking-Glass
“By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.”
“By willingly confronting the darkest recesses of my being, I fear losing a precarious grip upon eroding sanity. By writing myself into an experimental state of mental, physical, and emotional exhaustion, I fear experiencing the wilting of personal endurance to face another day of introspective examination. One-step too far into the pitch-dark underworld of deconstructive self-scrutiny and a person might not survive. A person’s failure boldly to charge forward with all of their strength of mind when beckoned by the better angels of their nature might preclude that person from unraveling the very purpose of their being.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“By wine eating cares are put to flight.
[Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]”
“By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.”
Source: The Poems
“By wit we search divine aspect above,
By wit we learn what secrets science yields,
By wit we speak, by wit the mind is rul'd,
By wit we govern all our actions;
Wit is the loadstar of each human thought,
Wit is the tool by which all things are wrought.”
Source: The dramatic and poetical works: With memoirs of the authors and notes
“By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.”
Source: Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical
“By Woden, God of Saxons,
From whence comes Wensday, that is Wodensday,
Truth is a thing that ever I will keep
Unto thylke day in which I creep into
My sepulchre”
“By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels.”
“By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.”
“By words the mind is winged.”
“By work alone, men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. Buddha was a working Jnani, Christ was a Bhakta, but the same goal was reached by both of them. Good motives, sincerity, and infinite love can conquer the world. One single soul possessed of these virtues can destroy the dark designs of millions of hypocrites and brutes.”
“By working and living in New York, you are breathing Western civilization, continuously reminded of its benefits and its values.”
Source: Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy
“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”
“By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that.”
“By working hard, by making the right moves, you can create your own luck, I think. But certainly luck plays a part.”
“By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it . . . .”
“By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.”