B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Being smarter than you look is better than looking smarter than you are.”
“Being Smiling Brahma is to register the fact that nothing is permanent; be it shine, be it shadows, be it happiness, be it sorrows.”
Source: Smiling Brahma
“Being snarky and smug doesn't equate to providing insight, and there's more than one occasion when the filmmakers lose sight of this in their zeal to spread the Gospel According to Maher.”
“Being snubbed is not always a bad thing at awards shows because you end up getting a lot of people coming up to you and telling you how great you are.”
“Being so active, allowing myself to try and fail, made me realize from an early age that”
Source: My Next Breath
“Being so active, allowing myself to try and fail, made me realize from an early age that information was everything, was my savior, would be the thing that saved me from fears, from being too afraid to do things. From as early as seven or eight years old I had a kind of free-flowing energy, a fluidity in my life, especially once I realized that knowledge defeated anxiety every time.”
Source: My Next Breath
“Being so alone and so silent for so long gave me the opportunity to see how our brains actually work. I think of that so often in my regular life, as I'm always interacting with people or with my computer or phone.”
“Being so busy, we're usually left with only small pockets of time to read - perhaps in the morning, during lunch, in the evening after work and before we go to bed. But these pockets of time can add up to become something substantial.”
Source: Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
“Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing touch with its essence.”
Source: Barrier of a common language: an American looks at contemporary British poetry
“Being so easily convinced,
so quickly with information
that is so scripted and so empty,
may be one of the reasons
why conversions, connections and growth
have been so hard and so slow.”
“Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.”
“Being so intensely committed and driven to achieving a goal like this was incredible. I felt like I came to life in a way I never had before. In the course of making the decision to aim for this high goal, planning how to accomplish it, doing the hard work, and finally watching it come to fruition, I became a winner.”
Source: Above All Else
“Being so pathetic, I don't read. I just ... do things - writing out interviews you can't read, on pictures of footprints and things like that. I kind of like the idea of nailing the thing down and not really showing too much about it. There's just so much you can take for collage nowadays.”
“Being so rational, we have created a very simple version of ourselves.”
“Being sober for so many years is getting interesting.”
“Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.”
“Being sociable is a sacrifice, as I see it. I really don't like to be, but it is necessary and worth it.”
“Being sociopath is not what most people would consider to be winning. Most of us have some kind of positive goal in mind when we think of winning. A sociopath thinks in terms of successfully manipulating someone into doing something that he or she would not have done otherwise. That can be a small thing or a tremendous thing, but the point for the sociopath is to win, to make sure that this person does what they're trying to coerce him or her into doing. It can be as disgusting and as simple as making a child cry. Or it can be as complex as making your wife feel bad about herself.”
“Being solemn has almost nothing to do with being serious, but on the other hand, you can't go on being adolescent forever, unless you are in the performing arts, and anyhow most people can't tell the difference. In fact, though Americans talk a great deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who are serious. In politics, the rare candidate who is serious is easily overwhelmed by one who is solemn. This is probably because it is hard for most people to recognize seriousness, which is rare, especially in politics, but comfortable to endorse solemnity, which is as commonplace as jogging. Jogging is solemn. Poker is serious. Once you grasp that distinction, you are on your way to enlightenment.”
Source: So This Is Depravity and Other Observations
“Being somebody who wants to be religious doesn't make me perfect and doesn't make me necessarily any better than anybody else. It maybe makes me better than I would have been if I didn't have that level.”
“Being somebody: it's one of the ideas in life, no? That's what my father made clear to me. The importance of being somebody. He wanted to be somebody. And he underlined to me the fate of trying to be somebody and not quite managing to do it.”
“Being someone I'm not for a period of time and loving every minute of being in someone else's skin.”
“Being someone is not a biological need.”
“Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he's materialistic.”
“Being someone who prays or fasts doesn't mean you want an Islamic state. Islam in the form of the Iranian state has been defeated in the Arab world. All Islamist movements now want to copy the Turkish model.”
“Being someone who supports people of color and stands against racism isn't easy. Sometimes it requires sacrifice and having difficult conversations -- but that will never be as difficult as actually being impacted by racism.”
Source: The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person
“Being somewhere but not completely: that was home for Danny. . . . All he needed was a cellphone or I-access, or both at once, or even just a plan to leave wherever he was and go someplace else really really soon.”
“Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.”
Source: The Talisman: A Novel
“Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.”
“Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay on your toes.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“Being soulful makes you desire depth. You look for depth in everything and everyone. You look for meaning in things that you encounter. Even when you meet someone for the first time you look for their soul. You are not fascinated by shine and sparkle. But you are fascinated by rawness and strength. Their 'soul' that they have held on to and not yet abandoned to the world!”
“Being Southern and being the guy I've been all my life, I've lived more on the lighter side of life. I have a dark side, but that's not where I come from. A lot of artists like to come from that.”
“Being specific with your needs and understanding why you need them is critical to fulfillment. When you've lost your way, when it feels like the journey you planned is no longer the journey you're on. "What do you need?" can be your North Star. Even one small step in a deliberate direction can reorient you back on your path.”
Source: What Do You Need?: How Women of Color Can Take Ownership of Their Careers to Accelerate Their Path to Success
“Being spiritual-but-nonreligious sounds good in theory—at least it’s better than attending antiquated religious institutions. We can do that. And we have. A growing number of us identify as spiritual-but-nonreligious.”
Source: More Likely to Quote Star Wars than the Bible: Generation X and Our Frustrating Search for Rational Spirituality
“Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you allow life to happen within you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch the spirit.”
“Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.”
“Being spiritual is a far more intelligent way to exist. It means being in tune with the intelligence of the Creator.”
“Being spiritually asleep has deceived the vast majority of people into thinking that poverty is a poor person’s main problem in life. To those who are spiritually awake, poverty is not even a problem.”
“Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.”
“Being spontaneous, it's what saved me.”
“Being stagnant in a business is the death of a business.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.”
“Being stick skinny to the extent where you can see your bones through your skin is not a good look. You don't need to be that to be beautiful or to be perfect or to fit in. Who you are is exactly who you should be. You can't let other people dictate your life or how you feel about yourself because then you're not living.”
“Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.”
Source: Intercourse
“Being still and doing nothing are two completely different things”
“Being still at least once a day will enhance your life.”
“Being still does not mean don't move. It means move in peace.”
“Being still is not laziness,
Being still
being quiet
being aware
being the observer
is not being lazy
It is actively
being in the stillness
consciously”
“Being strange is not necessarily bad ... Sometimes it's a person's only redeeming quality.”
“Being stress and anxiety free is a human preset, I just show you how to 'flick the switch' to off. Permanent stress and anxiety recovery is possible quickly and simply despite what many are told.”
Source: The Linden Method: The Anxiety and Panic Attacks Elimination Solution