B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.”
“Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.”
“Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.”
Source: More gilt-edged Bonds
“Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.”
“Before a negotiation can proceed and be completed, what is outside the scope of negotiation needs to be agreed.”
“Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished: tell yourself that what has passed will never come back.
Remember that there was a time when you could live without that thing or that person - nothing is irreplaceable, a habit is not a need.”
“Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas, he sees his picture mentally.... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting, what do you see?... Is the picture one you think worth painting?... You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.”
“Before a performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone". Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.”
Source: Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day
“Before a person can achieve the kind of life he wants, he must think, act, walk, talk and conduct himself in all of his affairs as would the person he wishes to become.”
“Before a race, I block out what's going on in the stadium. It's different for everyone. But for me, I've always been able to block it out. For a sprint race, it's important not to get distracted.”
“Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable.”
“Before a secret is told, one can feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.”
Source: Van Gogh Gone
“Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.”
Source: A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
“Before a shoot, I'll watch what I eat. During the shoot, I watch what I eat. Afterwards, the first thing I do is go have a steak and French fries.”
“Before a show, you might have aches or pains, or it's a bad rainy day, or it's too humid. We all complain about stuff. But... how do I put this poetically? Once it's the roar of the crowd and the smell of the greasepaint, forget it. Once the adrenaline kicks in and your chest expands, you forget about all that.”
“Before a single regiment of U.S. soldiers set foot on European soil, the war changed American culture. It was a stomach that ingested a large diverse nation and started breaking it down into widgets. Hollywood movies and Disney cartoons were about the war now. Business was about the war. Work was about the war, and school was about the war. It was the only time before or since when Americans became emotionally invested in the idea of self-deprivation and frugality. Third graders roamed their neighbor-hoods in packs, gathering scrap materials, tires, and paper and cooking fat and old sneakers whose soles could be sacrificed for the rubber. The Big Three automakers stopped making cars and started making planes. Factory workers took secrecy oaths. Everybody had a secret now. The government issued ration stamps for eggs, milk, bread, gasoline, contained in ration books, manila-colored pamphlets”
Source: The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.”
Source: An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System
“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States.”
Source: An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System
“Before a sunk-cost fallacy creeps into the body of our expectations, we must disentangle a clear line in the merry-go-round of our desires and bring to light the real-world evidence in the cropland of our relationships. (“The infinite Wisdom of Meditation“)”
“Before a vision (dream) can become a reality, it must be owned by every member of the group.”
“Before a wall
of ancient stone,
I place prayers
in cracks of silence.”
Source: Stranger to the Beautiful
“Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.”
“Before a wheat flower is raised, thousands of herbs and silver flowers grow around.”
“Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world.”
“Before accepting your guess
just based on how you feel,
let's admit we just don't know,
and discover if it's real.”
Source: Annabelle & Aiden: Oh, The Things We Believed!
“Before acting on any recommendation, know the rationale.”
Source: Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one.”
“Before Adam there were Heaven and Hell. Sin or no sin, the devil was destined to go in hell no matter how hard he tried to believe in God.”
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“Before addressing what to eat, the most urgent matter is how to eat.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Before adolescence I had an incredible voice. Like when I was 12, 13, 14 - I was taking acting classes, I was painting, I was making music, I was taking photographs. I was kind of exploding creatively, and then something about adolescence really just ground that out of me.”
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“Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young people wearing braids or chokers or ribbon shirts in those days. Hell, I didn't wear 'em. People didn't Sun Dance, they didn't Sweat, they were losing their languages. Then there was that spark at Alcatraz, and we took off. Man, we took a ride across this country. We put Indians and Indian rights smack dab in the middle of the public consciousness for the first time since the so-called Indian wars.”
“Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.”
“Before Alar, there was EDB, a potent human carcinogen allowed in the grain supply and other food for more than a decade after it was known to be dangerous. There was heptachlor, linked to leukemia, and aldicarb, which poisoned thousands of California watermelons, yet is still allowed in potatoes and bananas at levels exposing up to 80,000 children a day to what EPA itself says are unacceptable high risks. Trust the government? Why should we?”
“Before Alaska came along and ruined everything, one of every twenty-five square miles in America was Montanan. This much space has nurtured a healthy Cult of Place in which people find perfection, even divinity in the landscape.”
“Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment or religion.”
“Before aligning the mind, body and soul ... first one has to straighten their mind out.”
“Before all else, be armed.”
“Before all else, Protestantism is, in its very essence, an appeal from all other authority to the divine authority of Holy Scripture”
“Before all else, the Gospel invites us to respond to the God of love who saves us, to see God in others and to go forth from ourselves to seek the good of others.”
Source: The Joy of the Gospel
“Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957
“Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly.”
“Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.”
Source: The Mysterious Island (World Classics, Unabridged)
“Before all things, the Teacher of Peace and the Master of Unity would not have prayer made singly and individually, as for one who prays only for himself. For we do not say, "My Father, who art in heaven"... Our prayer is public and common; and when we pray, we pray not for one, but for the whole people, because we the whole people are one.”
“Before all, and above all, attention shall be paid to the care of the sick, so that they shall be served as if they were Christ Himself.”
“Before all, be real. Only the truth gives to the word the Orpheus' Lyre power.”
“Before all, you need to know who you are, what you believe in, and what you stand for. Be how you want to be received.”
“Before Allah nothing of our material existence impresses Allah. It is our righteousness and our uprightness alone that impresses God.”
“Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose”