B Quotes
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“Backing down can become a way of life.”
“Backing up your argument with unnamed sources, rumored facts and hearsay only backs your view and your professional reputation into a corner.
Argue the facts with validity, authority and substantial proof or walk away. It is ok to say you don’t know and it can serve your reputation better than sharing what you can’t prove.”
“Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.”
“Backpackers can pack much more meows than baggers. Beggars never feed stray cats as street cats are self-sustaining.”
“Backpacking is the art of knowing what not to take.”
“Backs dialogue for solving disputes and not military power and threats.”
“Backsliders begin with dusty Bibles and end with filthy garments.”
“Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.”
Source: PRACTICAL RELIGION
“Backstabbers specialize in saying the wrong thing at the wrong time to the wrong person.”
Source: High-Maintenance Relationships: How to Handle Impossible People
“Backstabbing occurs when a friend agrees with you when the two of you are alone but later sides with your opponents in a social setting.”
Source: High-Maintenance Relationships: How to Handle Impossible People
“Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, I got on my knees and told her that I was going to marry her some day. We were both married to someone else at the time. ‘Ring Of Fire’—June and Merle Kilgore wrote that song for me-that’s the way our love affair was. We fell madly in love and we worked together all the time, toured together all the time, and when the tour was over we both had to go home to other people. It hurt.”
“Backstage at the Victoria's Secret show is pure madness. Big personalities, big hair, and tons of press.”
“Backstage wasn’t nostalgia. It was resurrection.”
Source: Backstage Pass: Decades of Sex, Drugs, Tragedy and the Darker Side of Rock & Roll
“Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.”
“Backstory is like a flavour you can’t quite pick, lurking in the layers of a curry. You know it’s there and it enhances the flavour, but it’s intangible and fleeting. Use it sparingly!”
“Backstreet Boys fans don't want to hear the New Kids singing all of their hits. Just like our fans don't want to hear the Backstreet Boys singing all of our hits.”
“Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.”
“Backup singers just bring so much more life to the situation. When a voice opens up, there comes the life.That's when it's a person-to-person connection.”
“Backup?" Tori said. "You mean he didn't need that?"
"Apparently not," I murmured.
Simon looked from her to me, confused, then understanding. "You guys thought..."
"That if you didn't get your medicine in the next twenty-four hours, you'd be dead?" I said. "Not exactly, but close. You know, the old 'upping the ante with a fatal disease that needs medication' twist. Apparently, it still works."
"Kind of a letdown, then, huh?"
"No kidding. Here we were, expecting to find you minutes from death. Look at you, not even gasping."
"All right, then. Emergency medical situation, take two."
He leaped to his feet, staggered, keeled over, then lifted his head weakly.
"Chloe? Is that you?" He coughed. "Do you have my insulin?"
I placed it in his outstretched hand.
"You saved my life," he said. "How can I ever repay you?"
"Undying servitude sounds good. I like my eggs scrambled."
He held up a piece of fruit. "Would you settle for a bruised apple?”
Source: The Awakening
“Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.”
“Backward cities, or younger cities, or newly forming cities in supply regions, have to develop to a great extent on one another's shoulders. This is one of the terrible things about empires.”
“Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.”
Source: Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890
“Backward time dilation or forward time dilation is hard owing to the linearly accelerating conception around spacetime curvature of the universe”
“Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black across the sun.”
Source: Letters Home
“Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take them, and give me my childhood again!”
“Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night!”
“Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.”
“Backyard barbecues are really just about getting together. It's all about making people come over, having a really good time, talking about their lives, and sharing some great recipes.”
“Backyard ducks that supposedly “take care of themselves” require more maintenance than the space shuttle.”
Source: Enslaved by Ducks
“Backyards are as Australian as the Hills Hoists they host, and as individual as those who work and play in them. Whether haven, pantry or playground, they all tell a story.”
“Bacon bits are like the fairy dust of the food community.”
Source: Food: A Love Story
“Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master.”
Source: A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts: In Two Volumes
“Bacon improved things dramatically.”
Source: Bitterblue
“Bacon is clearly a food made by the Nazis to fatten up Americans. It has no nutritional value, is full of fat, sodium, and nitrates, and is a pathetic type of consumable made from the noblest of creatures.”
“Bacon is like a good pair of Levi's-it never goes out of style.”
Source: Michael Symon's Carnivore: 120 Recipes for Meat Lovers
“Bacon is like the opposite of medicine. It's like, "Take that, Lipitor."”
“Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very highly of Democritus , Although he did not deny that the course of nature exemplifies a Divine purpose, he objected to any admixture of teleological explanation in the actual investigation of phenomena; everything, he held, should be explained as following necessarily from efficient causes .”
Source: History of Western Philosophy
“Bacon would not be a choice if the pig had any say in the matter. A lamb, given the gift of speech, would most probably say "no" if you asked if you could eat her leg. Fish would no doubt choose to stay in the water, if they could and I feel pretty sure turkeys must object once their Christmas fête (or should that be fate?) is made clear to them. Chickens are surely protesting from having their eggs systematically stolen and freedoms restricted, and both cows and their calves would be up in arms, if they had any, with the theft of their milk and violent separation. Given the chance, bees will attack and defend ferociously, even sacrificing themselves in the process, in order to protect their precious honey; a sure sign they do not part with it voluntarily.”
Source: Destination Eden - Eden Fruitarianism Explained
“Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string.”
“Bacon's on the way." He smiled. "Hey, they like you!" Wrath to Beth after the brother's bow to her.”
“Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself? To what degree of distortion does a beloved person still remain a beloved person? For how long does a cherished face growing remote through illness, through madness, through hatred, through death still remain recognizable? Where is the border beyond which a self ceases to be a self?”
“Bacon's the best, even the frying of bacon sounds like an applause.”
“Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing in addition to caring for man's well-being they were providing rights for themselves.”
“Bacon. Crispy. Salty. I could just eat a mountain of bacon for breakfast; it's so delicious.”
“Bacteria are so small they need to stick to things or they will wash away; to attach themselves, they produce a slime, the secondary result of which is that individual soil particles are bound together. [...]
Fungal hyphae, too, travel through soil, sticking to them and binding them together, thread-like, into aggregates. [...]
The soil food web, then, in addition to providing nutrients to roots in the rhizosphere, also helps create soil structure: the activities of its members bind soil particles together even as they provide for the passage of air and water through the soil. [...]
The nets or webs fungi form around roots act as physical barriers to invasion and protect plants from pathogenic fungi and bacteria. Bacteria coat surfaces so thoroughly, there is no room for others to attach themselves. If something impacts these fungi or bacteria and their numbers drop or they disappear, the plant can easily be attacked.”
Source: Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
“Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see.”
“Bacteria: The only culture some people have.”
“Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.”
“Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.”
“Bad acting, like bad writing, has a remarkable uniformity, whether seen on the French, German, or English stages; it all seems modeled after two or three types, and those the least like types of good acting. The fault generally lies less in the bad imitation of a good model, than in the successful imitation of a bad model.”
Source: On Actors and the Art of Acting