B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Being abusive is a choice. Unfortunately in our society today, it is a choice that holds no consequence.”
“Being 'accepted' by God never meant being accepted by your peers.
Stop worrying about what others think about you. Stop judging God by the way people judge you.
Your worth is inherent, not in question.”
“Being accepted by the world is the worst thing that can happen to the Church.”
“Being accountable is somewhat ingrained into the life of a first responder.”
“Being accused of cheating is infuriating, especially if you are cheating, or have cheated.”
“Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.”
“Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so rich with irony that it's a better subject for a comic novel than a column.... On one coast the cops are busting sex workers on Eighth Avenue, dragging them downtown to night court where they pay the fine and go right back to their corner; on another they're charging Heidi Fleiss with pandering in a town in which the verb is an art form.”
“Being active and good health is the most important beauty regime because that will affect you for the rest of your life.”
“Being actors is a strange job. To try to go live that out, it's a very strange thing to want to do when you step back and think about it.”
“Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master. This was the important thing. It had always been the important thing. This was what it was to be Adam.”
Source: The Raven Boys
“Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.”
“Being adopted felt like reading a book that had the first chapter ripped out. You might be enjoying the plot and the characters, but you'd probably also like to read that first line, too. However, when you took the book back to the store to say that the first chapter was missing, they told you they couldn't sell you a replacement copy that was intact. What if you read that first chapter and realized you hated the book, and posted a nasty review on Amazon? What if you hurt the author's feelings? Better just to stick with your partial copy and enjoy the rest of the story.”
Source: Handle with Care
“Being adopted is complicated. It can be both a win and a loss at the same time.”
Source: Voices Unheard: A Reflective Journal for Adult Adoptees
“Being adopted is complicated. It can be both a win and a loss at the same time, and when the “loss” part goes unacknowledged, the omission adds greatly to the complication.”
Source: Voices Unheard: A Reflective Journal for Adult Adoptees
“Being afraid doesn't lessen one's bravery,' he said, finishing the last of the buttons. 'Nor does desperation. If anything, it strengthens the bravery.”
Source: Fall of Ruin and Wrath
“Being afraid is one thing. Being alone and afraid is far worse. Find others who understand your fears and problems.”
Source: Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need
“Being afraid is the worst sin there is.”
“Being afraid meant it was okay to forget your manners. If you're afraid, you never have to be nice.”
Source: Furthermore
“Being afraid of anything is the strongest belief in it”
“Being afraid of building bonds because of the hurt you felt from those who betrayed your trust before, is a foolish sentiment. If you want to discover the truth hidden in the shadows of your mind, then you'll need to use the strength of powerful bonds to do so.”
Source: The Pacemaker
“Being afraid of having an endoscopy (if you're a man) and giving birth (if you're a woman).”
“Being afraid of things going wrong, doesn't help them go right.”
“Being afraid on the court, means you're not confident of your skills”
“Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing. At least you are smart enough to question. Think of how easy it is to believe, for people who don't question, who don't even know how to question. For most people, it's not the truth that is important, it's the cause. Rahl is intelligent; he has given them a cause.”
Source: Wizard's First Rule
“Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing.”
Source: Wizard's First Rule
“being afraid to take chances is scarier than actually doing things that challenge you.”
Source: Leaving Paradise
“Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.”
“Being afreaid proves you're alive and awake.”
“Being against evil doesn't make you good.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“Being against the military because you are against war is like being against the Fire Department because you are against fire.”
“Being against torture ought to be sort of a multipartisan thing.”
“Being ageless isn't about turning back the clock. It's about owning every inch of yourself and feeling damned good about it.”
Source: Savvy Survival. . . : for women starting over alone later in life.
“Being aggressive is a lot less risky in the end. Are you going to eat your lunch, or have your lunch eaten for you.”
“Being aggressive, you can accomplish some things, but with gentleness, you can accomplish all things.”
“Being agile in your company isn’t just a fad; it’s the result of years of research in response to both megatrends that last for years and current trends, which keep their ears to the ground on how things are progressing in real-time. Perhaps the only certainty about the future is that it will be unpredictable, emphasizing the importance of agility.”
Source: Future of Work: From Cubicle to Tribe
“Being Agile is to take that first of many steps.”
Source: Agile Able: Project Management Simplified
“Being Agile; piece by piece, step by step.”
Source: Agile Able: Project Management Simplified
“Being agreeable didn't make people less difficult.”
Source: Henry, Himself
“Being alert is not to vigilantly stand on tip-toe in order to scan some distant horizon out of the fear of some approaching enemy. Quite the opposite. It is falling to our knees knowing that God is already out on that horizon and that He thwarted the enemy long before they ever reached it.”
“Being Ali's doctor is somewhat like being gynacologist to the Queen of England. One does not have to do much to receive good press.”
“Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.”
“Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to actually live take a lot of courage.”
“Being alive at 87 is quite an accomplishment if you're curious, interested, seeing the fun out of life, doing things, having a purpose.”
“Being alive does not necessarily lead to feeling alive.”
“Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells”
Source: 1Q84
“Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.”
“Being alive is about playing to win. Being brain dead is when you play not to loose.”
“Being alive is being a part of a dream and there is no dream outside the life!”
“Being alive is being aware, being able to be touched and moved and changed, being able to respond rather than to react, being able to see and hear.”