B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Being must be felt. It can't be thought.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Being my own cause is to position the world around me so that the entirety of it would be at my disposal. And if there’s one way to rather quickly and efficiently dispose of my life, this would be it.”
“Being my own rock is promising, but it would be a huge lie if I didn’t admit that becoming a mountain with someone else could be equally rewarding.”
Source: History Is All You Left Me
“Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without injury to the equal liberty of his fellow citizens, I have lamented that in France the endeavors to obtain this should have been attended with the effusion of so much blood.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798
“Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility.”
Source: A Set of Six
“Being myself didn't work. Being someone else didn't work. Maybe I just wasn't meant to have friends.”
“Being myself has brought me pain
Has made them to define me weak.
Should I change, or still complain?
Let the pain be, I'll still be me.”
Source: Whispers from Within
“Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.”
Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
“Being mysterious and not being courteous are the causes of major assassinations in a nation”
“Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won't do what you've done before.”
“Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the situation, and if we try to become less so, we may accept a definition that confines the definition of small wins to narrower issues than is necessary.”
“Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.”
Source: Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism
“Being naked in water - there's nothing better. It's primal and freeing.”
“Being naked makes me feel vulnerable. Clothes are quite the armor.”
“Being naked takes on different values, according to the self-consciousness of the one who is naked; or according to the consciousness of the one who is looking at the nakedness. The men are tortured in their minds by the meaning of being naked, especially by the literal nakedness of women but also by their own nakedness: what it means to be seen and to be vulnerable. The nakedness of the women they look at, interpret, desire, associate with acts of violence they want to commit.”
Source: Intercourse
“Being named among the best is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothing is won.”
“Being named as a finalist for the USA Basketball National Team is an unbelievable feeling and an opportunity that is truly humbling. It is an honor to be included with such talented players and I look forward to the chance to represent my country this summer.”
“Being nationalistic in France has nothing in common with being patriotic in America.”
“Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.”
“Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame and guilt about the human body.”
“Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame or disgust about the human body. If parents are very secretive about their bodies and go to great lengths to prevent their children from ever seeing a buttock or breast, children will wonder what is so unusual, and even alarming, about human nudity.”
“Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.”
“Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“Being natural is the ultimate secret of our art.”
“Being naturalized to place means to live as if this is the land that feeds you, as if these are the streams from which you drink, that build your body and fill your spirit. To become naturalized is to know that your ancestors lie in this ground. Here you will give your gifts and meet your responsibilities. To become naturalized is to live as if your children’s future matters, to take care of the land as if our lives and the lives of all our relatives depend on it. Because they do.”
Source: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
“Being near her was like balancing on a tipping world, trying to keep your footing as the ground wanted to roll you forward, hurl you into a spiral from which there was no recovery, only impact, and it was a longed-for impact, a sweet and beckoning collision.”
“Being near you for a day was at the top of my bucket list of the greatest life achievements, so this has by far exceeded my expectations and everyday has been magic.”
Source: Write like no one is reading
“Being nearly four years old, she was certainly a child: and children are human (if one allows the term "human" a wide sense): but she had not altogether ceased to be a baby: and babies are of course not human--they are animals, and have a very ancient and ramified culture, as cats have, and fishes, and even snakes: the same in kind as these, but much more complicated and vivid, since babies are, after all, one of the most developed species of the lower vertebrates.
In short, babies have minds which work in terms and categories of their own which cannot be translated into the terms and categories of the human mind.
It is true that they look human--but not so human, to be quite fair, as many monkeys.
Subconsciously, too, every one recognizes they are animals--why else do people always laugh when a baby does some action resembling the human, as they would at a praying mantis? If the baby was only a less-developed man, there would be nothing funny in it, surely.”
Source: A High Wind in Jamaica
“Being nearly naked around Barrons felt a lot like going to a shark convention lightly basted in blood.”
Source: Bloodfever: Fever Series
“Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.”
Source: The Six Rules of Maybe
“Being Negative and Lazy is a disease that leads to pain, hardship, depression, poor health and failure. Be pro active, and give a damn to achieve success!”
“Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con.”
“Being negative is natural and being 100 percent positive takes work.”
Source: Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
“Being negative is not how we make progress, and the most important things are not zero sum.”
“Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.”
Source: Approval Addiction
“Being Nerdy is so close to being awesome sometimes”
“Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.”
“Being nervous actually kept me very tense.”
“Being nervous. Having anxiety. Stuttering. Autism. When you have any of those, at some point, you're forced to spend most of your time alone.”
Source: Stamerenophobia
“Being nervous is a waste of time.”
“Being nervous is not something you should be ashamed of. Nervous means you care, you really want to do well.”
“Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.”
“Being nervous isn't bad. It just means something important is happening.”
“Being nervous, first of all, puts you at a distinct disadvantage, and if you've really prepared and if you've really thought through how to start the conversation, things start to fall into place. There are other things I get nervous about, but not that.”
“Being net value adders puts us better positioned for long-term growth and longevity – because in the long term, capital flows to net value adders.”
Source: Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing
“Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation.”
Source: Speedboat
“Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.”
“Being Nice Has Its Limitations. While you will certainly attract more bees with honey, there are times when being nice can backfire. Take it from a naturally kind person, being a “bitch” has its time and place. There will be times when you must engage with mean, rude, and inconsiderate people.”
Source: The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact
“Being nice is often about avoiding conflict, letting inappropriate actions slide, or bottling up words and actions that ought to be spoken and enacted to prevent creating an uncomfortable scene. At its worst, being nice reinforces actions and attitudes that strip away human dignity.”
Source: In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World