B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Being a lady does not require silence.”
“Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men.”
“Being a lady is an attitude.”
“Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.”
“Being a late bloomer gives you a second chance at life.”
“Being a late bloomer, I really didn't have any interest in children until my late 30s, but I'm so happy I didn't go through life without that experience.”
“Being a lawyer, first of all, think creatively. Think, "How can we deal with this particular case in a way we haven't dealt with similar ones in the past?" Second, don't be afraid of the people who are willing to defend your client. I find too many lawyers say, "Keep that defense committee away from me!" If it weren't for my defense committee, I'd be sitting in federal prison in Texas today. And the press! You've got to learn to handle the press because god knows the government does all the time.”
“Being a lazy parent and letting your kid watch stuff that's not appropriate for their age is one of the bigger mistakes you can make.”
“Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.”
“Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.”
“Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.”
“Being a leader is all about being yourself.
It’s not about being perfect. It’s about being honest, courageous, and authentic.”
Source: Overcoming Mediocrity: Limitless Women
“Being a leader is living life on your terms not getting followers”
“Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.”
“Being a leader is often difficult. It requires that you continually put the needs of others before your own desires.”
Source: The Burning Tide
“Being a leader is one thing I've never felt comfortable with. It's not my nature.”
“Being a leader is only one of many roles you might play. You also play personal roles such as a sibling, parent, child, spouse, grandparent, etc. all of these roles depend on you for their existence. But what mindfulness shows us is that your awareness can be independent of these roles.”
Source: Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One
“Being a leader on a quest to amp up your company’s culture might be one of the hardest things you will ever do, but the journey is so worth it. It can be life-changing.”
Source: Leadership That Rocks
“Being a leader, it's the art of trying to find the balance, the right times with each individual and what they need at that moment. It requires looking outward as opposed to looking inside.”
“Being a leading man... that's like saying I want to be astronaut. That's not going to happen.”
“Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind.”
“Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind... I'm total, total, total liberal and proud of it. And I think it's outrageous to say "The L word". I mean, excuse me. They should be damn lucky that they were liberals here. Liberals gave more to the population of the United States than any other group.”
“Being a liberal progressive has been demonized as anti-white or overly on the side of blacks. There's nothing that can be done about that; it's just where we are in the history of our perceptions.”
“Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.”
“Being a librarian isn't an especially high-level job, I can tell you. Pretty close to being in a factory. I'm a cultural assembly line worker.”
Source: The Library of Unrequited Love
“Being a lifelong runner, knowing what running gives me, a variety of factors - that is what motivates me.”
“Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. I’ve been a painter. A personal shopper. An accountant and a banker. I’ve been a beautician. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. A movie reviewer. A nurse. A psychologist. A negotiator. An I have a Ph. D in How to Pretend Like You Don’t Mind.”
“Being a light in the world is brightest and most powerful when you are being the light through darkness and pain. When we feel weakest is often when we are actually being the strongest.”
“Being a little older is not going to win election. Being a little younger might, especially if the older candidates, Hillary Clinton included, can`t make the case that they have learned something that the younger crowd doesn`t know.”
“Being a lone wolf is sometimes better than being in a pack.”
“Being a loner doesn’t make you lonely, but being lonely can make a loner”
“Being a lunatic isn’t so bad, but to be a lunatic AND be wrong would be bleak, man!”
Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“Being a male capable of grunting, sweating, and not asking for directions, but not yet having conqured a women...in our culture, that wasn't manhood, that was dorksville!”
“Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice.”
Source: Absolute Answers to Prodigal Problems
“Being a man (male "macho") does not give you right to anything.”
“Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.”
Source: Babbitt
“Being a man is bullshit; maybe trying to be a man had been the problem all along. At a certain point you just have to trust someone. Even if it’s only yourself.”
“Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.”
“Being a man means your life is not about you anymore. Your existence is no longer defined by what you do for yourself; but what you do for others.”
“Being a man of faith, what was so interesting to me was the subject, which started, by the way, with Anne Rice's wonderful books.”
“Being a man of taste and sophistication, the 80s were objectively, quantifiably, empirically, diagram-it-on-a-blackboard the worst decade in the history of recorded music.”
“Being a man of the theater and a hedonist, I find the idea of building coffins very romantic.”
“Being a man with a conscience I simply felt that I had to do something - anything! - about the world we live in.”
“Being a manager is about getting into the minds of the people you represent.”
“Being a martial artist for many years, it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to bring that part of my life to the screen.”
“Being a martyr is highly overrated.”
Source: Dragon Bones
“Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style as equal, and you want complicated music to devour.”
“Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.”
Source: A Primer of Mathematical Writing: Being a Disquisition on Having Your Ideas Recorded, Typeset, Published, Read, and Appreciated, Second Edition
“Being a mediocre conversationalist is easy. Being a good conversationalist is hard. As I’ve tried to understand how to become a better conversationalist, I’ve found that I’ve had to overcome weird ideas about what a good conversationalist is like. A lot of people think a good conversationalist is someone who can tell funny stories. That’s a raconteur, but it’s not a conversationalist. A lot of people think a good conversationalist is someone who can offer piercing insights on a range of topics. That’s a lecturer, but not a conversationalist. A good conversationalist is a master of fostering a two-way exchange. A good conversationalist is capable of leading people on a mutual expedition toward understanding.”
Source: How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
“Being a medium who can communicate with souls isn't the same as one who can interact with them. It's the difference between listening in on a conversation and changing the subject.”
Source: Teen Spirit Guide to Modern Shamanism