B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Being drunk is the only situation when English people completely avoid health and safety rules.”
Source: How to Be an Alien in England: A Guide to the English
“Being drunk leads smart people to do stupid things, which is what is so interesting.”
“Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling.”
“Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.”
“Being dynamic doesn’t necessarily mean you live an effective life”
“Being dyslexic can actually help in the outside world. I see some things clearer than other people do because I have to simplify things to help me and that has helped others.”
“Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.”
“Being early meant being on time. Being on time meant being late. But being late was unacceptable.”
Source: Gold Shadow
“Being easily freaked out comes with its own special skill set: you develop subtle tricks to work around it, make sure people don't notice. Pretty soon, if you're a fast learner, you can get through the day looking almost exactly like a normal human being.”
Source: The Likeness: Dublin Murder Squad: 2
“Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep...in a giant blender.”
“Being Ecuadorian is, I don't want to say it's tough but it's... something special to me.”
“Being edited is like falling face down into a threshing machine.”
“Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.”
Source: Marriage
“Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.”
“Being efficient is the easy part. Suppressing one's ego completely for hours at a time is really hard.”
Source: My Week with Marilyn
“Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.”
“Being effortless is the coolest thing in the world”
“Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.”
“Being Elvis Presley's daughter is a whole lot of pressure. It's been a constant burden in my life.”
“Being embarrassed means that you're human, and we like you better for it”
“Being embodied as such is no insurance against feelings of hopelessness or meaningslessness. Beyond his body, he still has to know who he is.”
“Being emo is both the best and worst thing that has happened to me”
“Being emotionally rich everyday has the power to produce all other riches.”
“Being emotionally undercut by some friends, can feel like a physical uppercut to the chin, when deep down you just weren't ready for it, again.”
“Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.”
Source: Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays & Writings on Theater
“Being empowered includes developing the powerful qualities that lead human beings to cultivate wellness and healing. And those are the same qualities that enhance all relationships on earth and reduce stress (which seems to be the largest precursor to disease)-gentle ness, calmness, patience, humility, compassion, and gratitude.”
“Being empowered with the knowledge that you are the creator of your own reality, is the best way to accelerate healing and learning.”
“being empty means anything can fit inside you. if you want to be reborn, empty's the best way to be.”
“Being endowed with Imagination Human beings can see much beyond their eyes.”
“Being engaged in some way for the good of the community, whatever that community, is a factor in a meaningful life. We long to belong, and belonging and caring anchors our sense of place in the universe.”
“Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It's about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us, a hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That's what I want my life to be all about - full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.”
Source: Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
“Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet's eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by.”
“Being English definitely gave me some insight into these eccentric Brits puttering around Hollywood.”
“Being English, I always laugh at anything to do with the lavatory or bottoms.”
“Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.”
“Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.”
“Being enlightened is a remembering.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“Being enough is something you are not something you earn.”
“Being enough was going to have to be an inside job.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“Being enthusiastic settles nothing.”
“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
Source: The Origns of Psycho- Analysis
“Being equally convinced that aggression and rudeness are synonymous with having a "powerful personality."”
“Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by my first perception, and in which all absence is merely the obverse of a presence, all silence a modality of the being of sound, I enjoy a sort of ubiquity and theoretical eternity, I feel destined to move in a flow of endless life, neither the beginning nor the end of which I can experience in thought, since it is my living self who think of them, and since thus my life always precedes and survives itself.”
Source: Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings
“Being everything that I am is the very thing I need to become so that I am fully equipped to explore everything that I am not. For if I stop at myself, the journey ended in the preparation.”
“Being evil is something that only humans are capable of.”
“Being evil might be a good trend , but it is a bad trait.”
“Being exaltingly thin was, of course, the foundation for the visibility, the man, the adornments of this life-to-be; it was the prerequisite that made the rest of the dream possible. And since no matter how thin I got, I was frightened that I could wake up tomorrow and be fat again, the rest of the dream was forever ten or twenty pounds away.”
Source: Appetites: On the Search for True Nourishment
“Being excessively competitive in every single thing is what makes men jealous, then takes jealous men, and creates snakes with stakes always desperate to win.”
“Being excited about stuff on a daily basis, I'm so excited by it.”
“Being excited about what we do every day and sharing our gifts with the world is how we cultivate joy and energy.”