B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Being feminine is not a game changer, because any woman can be feminine... oh, and still not be romantically desirable.
The real game changer is being a sensual feminine woman, because that opens you up to a whole new level of self mastery that ordinary feminine-looking women can’t even begin to comprehend.”
“Being filled and led by the Spirit may take you places you never planned; but the will of God will never lead you where the grace of God cannot keep you.”
Source: Victory Over the Darkness (Large Print 16pt)
“Being filled with the Spirit is simply this - having my whole nature yielded to His power. When the whole soul is yielded to the Holy Spirit, God Himself will fill it.”
Source: Absolute Surrender
“Being financially independent has meant that women can walk out of bad marriages even when they don’t have family support, fight the pressure to get married by being able to afford to look after themselves, and finally, demand equal treatment in relationships.”
Source: Dear Men: Masculinity and Modern Love in #MeToo India
“Being fired has some of the advantages of dying without its supreme disadvantages. People say extra-nice things about you, and you get to hear them.”
Source: A People's History of American Empire: The American Empire Project, A Graphic Adaptation
“Being fired is part of the risk when anyone plans to take on the responsibility as a head coach.”
Source: Team Of One: We Believe
“Being fired is something... You have to really want to be an actor after you go through something like that. Because the level of self-doubt and insecurity that creeps into your psyche is monumental.”
“Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.”
“Being first is more important to me [than earning money]. I have so much money. Whatever money is, it's just a method of keeping score now. I mean, I certainly don't need more money.”
“Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.”
“Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.”
“Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.”
“Being first to ask for help in a friendship takes courage and humility.”
Source: Storm Sisters: Friends Though All Seasons
“Being fit and being in the best shape that I can be helps me be the best mom as well.”
“Being fit helps me improve my concentration, my will power and even my determination.”
“Being fit is the easiest part of being a dance professional. I used to just throw on a backpack full of rocks and run up a hill. You don't even have to go to a gym.”
“Being fit will keep you mentally sharp and people forget that.”
“Being five-foot-ten at fourteen years old was a little bit scary.”
“Being flexible is incredibly important. You can change your mind. I understand not wanting to flit around, jumping at something little, but you also need to ask yourself if the reasons you're in an investment are still the reasons you should be. It's hard for your ego and it's hard to call clients, but you have to do it.”
“Being flirty is a way of letting a guy know you're interested without making a fool out of yourself.”
“Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people.”
“Being fluid helps you not worry about the things you can't change but rather change the way you see things.”
“Being fly is something that I consider myself. I would love to be at some point.”
“Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone.”
“Being fooled into trying to make things work out for 'me' is called samsara.”
“Being for every man the touchstone of faith and love, the Eucharist, like on the Cross, divided the minds as soon as it was announced... Nothing engages a man as much as does the Eucharist”
“Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being "given up for a younger woman" is for a woman.”
Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
“Being forced to endure torture rather than dreamless sleep, or an otherwise neutral state, would be a tragedy of a fundamentally different kind than being forced to “endure” a neutral state instead of a state of maximal bliss.”
Source: Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications
“Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.”
Source: Town and Country Sermons: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
“Being forcefully rattled out of our consumer mentality - our addiction to comfort and convenience can create an opportunity for us [people] to reconnect with what we really value and with the qualities of life that really can sustain us - which include reconnecting with our roles as citizens, community members, and human beings.”
“Being forgiven is like having all the worst bits of yourself stuffed into a balloon and then having that balloon set free.”
Source: What Flowers Remember
“Being forgiving is one of the most noble virtues of a proactive person.”
Source: The Invisible Four-letter Word: The Secret to Getting What You Really Want in Life.
“Being forgotten hurts worse than being broken.”
Source: Grandpa Byte and The Lost Bots: Humans are faster at deleting bots than updating their emotions.
“Being formed into a nation takes some doing.”
“Being freaked out doesn't mean you can fix what you perceive to be the problem.”
“Being free brings a lightness, a carefree surrender to all that is happening around you, and, above all, an acceptance of reality.”
“Being free is a state of mind.”
“Being free is all about letting go. Our culture acts like “allowing” a weakness, but try it and you’ll know it’s one of the most powerful things ever!
Just for today, see what happens if you let go: of expectations, of fear, of resentments, etc.
Imagine how light you’ll be without all that (old!) weight.”
Source: BIG: the practice of joy
“Being free is as difficult and as perpetual — or rather fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good jew or a good Moslem or a good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up in the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.”
Source: Conversations with Maya Angelou (Literary Conversations
“Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.”
Source: Conversations with Maya Angelou
“Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free”
Source: Creation and Fall Temptation: Two Biblical Studies
“Being freed from superstition isn't enough for science to grow. One must also have the idea of interrogating Nature, of doing experiments.”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.”
“Being fresh is more important than having money.”
“Being friends is different from being lovers. It’s a sea change.”
Source: Blueprints
“Being friends is not just a chapter in life; it is the beautifully written story that unfolds with
every shared moment and heartfelt conversation.”
“Being friends with a person is not frivolous. In fact, friendship is essential to living a happy life [...].”
Source: Storing Up Trouble
“Being friends with anyone for 30 years is no easy task - people change, they drift apart, they move on.”
“Being friends with you was great but now we will be both friends and lovers.”
“Being Friends with you was great but now we will be lovers.”