B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Being a part of the crowd with incredible musicians onstage summoning the muse and delivering that to us - doesn't matter if it's an orchestra, two bluegrass banjo pickers, a solo singer, piano player, or Bruce Springsteen - when it all comes together, you can just feel as if you are a part of something bigger and grander than yourself.”
“Being a part of the finesse and physicality of box lacrosse has been a great experience for me. I feel that I have learned and improved as an overall lacrosse player. Learning to adapt in tight space while reading defenders and offensive players has been the biggest improvement in my game.”
“Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.”
“Being a part-time pop star was perfect, really, when I wasn't worn out by the partying.”
“Being a party chair, you really have a chance to make a difference. but what the Democrats have to do is recognize and accept the fact that they're at their lowest point [in 2017] since 1928 in the United States House of Representatives and their lowest point since 1925 in states.”
“Being a pastor for 20 years I realized that the labels, agnostic, atheist, believer, everybody's human and everybody wants to know what kind of universe we're living in, and everybody's living according to a story.”
“Being a pastor, of course, obviously people would say it (shouldn't) have done much but, boy, it sure gave me a peace I never had before. I think we struggle in life. Even people of faith struggle when things don't work out quite the way we think they should.”
“Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.”
“Being a patriot doesn’t mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don’t have to be foreign countries.”
“Being a peaceful people isn’t the same as being a defenseless one.”
Source: The Awakening
“Being a peacock is not the only way to hide yourself, Frida. A pigeon can hide.”
Source: The Lacuna
“Being a pedestrian again is very exciting because in L.A. you live in your car, and you're on a freeway all the time.”
“Being a people pleaser taught me one thing, no matter how much you give, it’s never enough for the wrong people.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“Being a perfectionist does not apply when it comes to children and a tidy house.”
“Being a perfectionist is not an evil thing.”
“Being a perfectionist, I didn't want to settle for just getting by, so I enrolled in a vocal training program. I then learned that songwriting and studying the voice actually pair with a lot of troubles that I had expressing myself, being vulnerable, trusting other people, trusting myself, calming anxiety. It became a life instructor of sorts and that is what kept me engaged with it.”
“Being a perfectly unique specimen is lonely, as it turns out.”
Source: The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“Being a person and being aware of the person we are are activities of the universe: in a manner of speaking, we all ‘have the same Soul’.”
Source: The Meaning of Universal Awareness: A Rational Foundation
“Being a person is not nearly as overrated as having played a part in the initiation of the process that has led to the being of a person.”
“Being a person of integrity means doing the right thing even when no one is watching. The thing is, you’re always watching.”
“Being a person of prayer is the most important calling in one’s life.”
Source: Growing in Prayer
“Being a person you are defined, limited
In meditation become existence, unlimited
Oneness initialised... infinity #Mickeymized!”
“Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.”
Source: The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life
“Being a person, I had come to realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people do not know how to be people unless and until they learn from other people.”
“Being a personality is not the same thing as having a personality.”
“Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best - life wouldn't be worth living if we didn't have hope. And I also do think that human beings often do do wonderful, correct, brilliant things. So, on balance, I'd like to be optimistic about the future.”
“Being a philanthropist doesn't mean necessarily writing a huge check. It can mean mobilizing your community to start asking questions.”
“Being a philosopher, rather than a neophyte in sanctity, Mr. Gaul did not feel it at all incumbent upon him to refrain from contemplating Perdita's legs.”
Source: Weymouth Sands
“Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.”
Source: N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
“Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.”
“Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that science can provide all of the answers. That is scientism and that is wrong. I don't think a billion buckets of science could speak to the problems raised by the Tea Party. Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that the only truths are those of science. I think the claim just made in the last sentence is true but I don't think it is a claim of science. It means that you use science where you can and you respect and try to emulate its standards.”
“Being a photographer helps me see the work differently. I always walk away seeing things differently than when I stare at them myself. It gives me a little distance. So I love photography, but it also helps me tell the story. When I shoot the ad campaign for my work, it allows me to be much more direct.”
“Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at.”
“Being a physicist, not a philosopher, I have devised an entirely new theory of consciousness, allowing one to numerically calculate the level of consciounsess of humans and even animals.”
“Being a pianist allows me to play in any language.”
“Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not a cloud in sight.”
“Being a poet in the States is quite different from being one in China, because in the States poetry depends on the universities for its support. They finance the poets and help them get published. That isn't so in China. But overall it is the same. You can't change society with poetry.”
“Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per cent. The rest is obsession.”
“Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.”
“Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!”
Source: Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
“Being a poetic heart is more like a throbbing self, a pretty melancholic wave inward tides,for many a time I begged the living world's mercy and how many times you fade my dreams at every day break.”
“Being a politician, doesn't mean being capable of making the best decisions for a people.”
Source: Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty
“Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.”
“Being a politician makes your hair turn white.”
“Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to enter the sacred space, genuflecting to reliquaries and ostentatoria that make something splendid of our most secret desires and agonies.”
Source: Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut
“Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.”
“Being a positive person doesn’t mean you don’t feel negative emotions. It means you have faith in your ability to get through tough situations, hope for better days and the willingness to see beyond the drama.”
“Being a 'potential mate' was something rather different and much more complicated. It was when two people had the potential to become like one person, knowing each other's moods and feelings in a way no one else could. Being aware of their presence in a crowded room was just one example. If they were sad or angry, their mate would sense it to a point of feeling the emotion themselves.”
Source: Beasthood
“Being a POW certainly doesn't qualify anyone to be president.”
“Being a powerful woman who also exhibits great warmth is an incredible feat because people think that to be powerful you have to be cold, and you don't.”