B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Being put in this situation, where it's myself, Kyle O'Reilly and a Jay Lethal, I think it's the best main event you can have right now in Ring of Honor.”
“Being queen is overrated.”
“Being queer was like holding the golden ticket to a club nobody wanted to go to. I had no idea that once I blasted down those closet doors, with their bouncers of fear, religion, and internal bias, the club would be lit. The way a party can be when everyone inside finally knows what it means to come home.
My queerness is a Tupperware container (thank god) that nobody will ever find a lid for. A box that cannot be closed. The reclamation of wholeness over goodness, transforming the perpetual misfit into one holy hell of a celebration.
Owning my queerness was like learning the desert floor was once the bottom of the ocean, meaning the towering 200-year-old saguaro watching over me was somehow born underwater. It is the dogged insistence on coloring outside of every single line.
It is the refusal to accept a singular definition that makes the word witch at me finally feel at home in the spaces where words are left behind.
My queerness rests its foundation on a ground named freedom. I speak it loudly because I have the freedom to do so without fear of reprisal or harm. I claim this life of mine under the rainbow and the complexity of the history it has given me fiercely.
To love a woman in a world that said I must not will never be anything but a revolution.
And when I kiss her, trust me, entire galaxies are mine.”
“Being questioned by the defense was stifling. He didn’t want to open up the emotional territory that she (the DA) did; he wanted to smother it, to erase my specific experience, abstract me into stereotypes of partying and blackouts, to ask technical questions that tied my shoelaces together, tripping me as he forced me to run.”
Source: Know My Name
“Being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.”
“Being racist by default is true.
If you are white!”
Source: Alive
“Being racist is neither right nor something to be proud of. It reveals who you are and what you are. How evil, bad, pathetic, shameless, disgusting, wicked, malicious, depraved, cruel, barbaric, hateful, inhuman, and vile you are. It means you are ill-mannered, rotten, dishonest, satanic, demonic, uncultured, or a bad person, possibly raised by bad parents or from a bad bloodline. You are a curse to this world.-”
“Being raised a Jew in southern California in the 1950s and 1960s, my religious training emphasized learning the Hebrew language and Jewish festivals, history, and culture. We also remembered the Holocaust and supported the newly formed Jewish state of Israel.”
Source: DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences
“Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.”
“Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.”
“Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn't exist to accommodate you, which... is something a lot of people struggle to understand well into their adulthood. It makes you realize how quickly a situation can shift, how danger really is everywhere. But crises when the occur, do not catch you off guard; you have never believed you lived under a shelter of some essential benevolence. And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement.”
“Being raised on a boat felt like it was totally normal to me. I was just another kid hanging out, doing this and that. My girlfriend and I had a funny period of time where I was always wanting to hug her all the time. I looked at my brother and he's the same way. It wasn't that our family was necessarily more affectionate than others. It was that we were basically sitting on top of each other, or side by side squished in together all the time. Because the boat was that small. It became part of our nature to be close to people.”
“Being rational - along with being clear and honest - are important if we are to create the needed shift in fundamental thinking necessary to make it possible to pull this world back from the brink of multiple disasters on ecological, cultural, political, and economic fronts.”
“Being rational is a moral Imperative. You should never be stupider than you need to be.”
“Being reactive is like experiencing the world on choppy seas, always at the whim of the weather.”
Source: Write on: Spiritual Growth
“Being ready is everything.”
Source: Toxic Assets
“Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there.”
“Being ready is state of mind... It's a mentality. Do you think your the best in the world? Do you work hard every single day?”
“Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.”
Source: The winner within: a life plan for team players
“Being real is being true to you.”
“Being real is what is important.”
“Being real may not go viral, but it will set you free.”
“Being REAL means showing people who you are underneath all the TV make up too.”
“Being realistic encompasses the negative, but it by no means excludes the positive.”
Source: Freedom Without Permission: How to Live Free in a World That Isn't
“Being realistic is not about being ordinary or being below average. It is about being honest with investment potentials.”
“Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. Why would you be realistic? What's the point of being realistic? I'm going to do it. It's done. It's already done. The second I decide it's done, it's already done.”
“Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocracy”
“Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity. What's the point of being realistic? It's unrealistic to walk into a room, flip a switch, and have light come on, but fortunately Edison didn't think so.”
“Being realistic is the quickest path to mediocrity”
“Being reasonable is the mandatory requirement in conflict resolution.”
Source: Quantraz
“being Rebeca taught me how to lie. how to look into someone's eyes while there isn't a true word coming out of your mouth, but they believe it because because enough of you believes it”
Source: The Girls I've Been
“Being receptive means overcoming insecurities and self-preoccupation and opening yourself up to the experience of another. It means you resist the urge to project your own viewpoint; you do not ask, “How would I feel if I were in your shoes?” Instead, you are patiently ready for what the other person is offering. As the theologian Rowan Williams put it, we want our minds to be slack and attentive at the same time, the senses relaxed, open, and alive, the eyes tenderly poised.”
Source: How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
“Being receptive to what is happening around me gives me inspiration and feeds my desire to create.”
“Being receptive, being able to listen openly and well, is a crucial skill for creative problem-solving.”
“Being recognised on the street in New York is pretty surreal.”
“Being recognized by Hollywood is a dream true; it's really an amazing moment.”
“Being rejected by someone you knew you never stood a chance with is like pouring salt on a wound that already has salt in it. It preserves the hurt.”
Source: Bottom Feeder
“Being rejected from something good just means that Allah is pointing you to something better”
“Being rejected in life is a blessing in disguise.”
“Being rejected is a blessing in disguise. Rejection simply means that it is time for your spiritual growth.”
Source: The Kodach Secrets: The Book of Real-Life Transformation
“Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.”
“Being rejected is not the end of your life, it's a means to an end for your life. And that end is your destiny.”
Source: Rejected for a Purpose: How God Uses Rejection to Help You Find and Fulfill Your Destiny
“Being related to the horse does not make the mule a noble mustang. – To those who believe that nobility is a matter of lineage.”
Source: The Sunrise Scrolls: To Life from the Shadows II
“Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way.”
Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything.”
“Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.”
“Being Religeous - Question everything and practice what is logical & scientific! Leaving religion will make you illogical, and going forward ‘a confused Soul’!!”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“Being religious doesn't mean you're righteous. It just means you're gullible.”
Source: American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America
“Being religious is quintessentially American.”
“Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.”
Source: The Essential Tillich