B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.”
“Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.”
“Being under a tyrant, the nation will cease to expand, development and life will get tougher and worst as time passes by.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“Being under him, trapped, objectified, I lost all fear. With Jonathan, I felt safe. I felt a loss of control so complete, a surrender so honest that it became a luxurious indulgence.”
Source: Control
“Being under pressure is great, if it's all in the right place.”
Source: Piddly Poems for Children: Volume 1
“Being under stress is like being stranded in a body of water. If you panic, it will cause you to flail around so that the water rushes into your lungs and creates further distress. Yet, by calmly collecting yourself and using controlled breathing you remain afloat with ease.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you, but in the things I really cared about - the legal work, or the stories I was telling as a writer, or the office I built in government - I wasn't left a lot of margin for error. It's kept me driven.”
“Being underestimated is an advantage, it's all about perspective. Some people are discouraged by it, I find it amusing because it means they won't see me coming.”
“Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.”
“Being underwater reminds me of the beauty in life’s simplicity. The sea pulses with life. It exudes it, breathes it; a constant reminder that everything is liquid”
“Being undone, we discover we’ve been fooled by wishing wells and have mistaken the fire of desire for radiance.”
Source: The Deepest Peace: Contemplations from a Season of Stillness
“Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.”
Source: Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
“Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side effects which you can only understand if youve truly lived through it.”
“Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems to directly affect people's health, particularly that of older workers.”
“Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.”
“Being unemployed is the true test of who you really are.”
Source: Don't Hurry, be Happy!: 650 Smart Ways to Slow Down and Enjoy Life
“Being unfit for work affords you freedoms that are not available to employees in the corporate workforce.”
“Being unhappy alone isn't all that much fun, but what's even tougher is playing one's part without forgetting one's lines, coping with other people's compassion, their comments, being there with the right line when they give the cue.”
Source: Cat's Grin
“Being unhappy and miserable is your choice. The mentality is destructive, and consenting to staying stuck in that state of mind is a blueprint for disaster.”
“Being unhappy means... Even if you want to love, because of a scar, you can't. Even though you don't want to be alone, because of that scar, you can't help but be alone. Even in bright sunshine, alone, you feel like you are lost in dark darkness.”
“Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?”
“Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up.”
“Being unique helps set you apart from everyone else.”
“Being unique is highly over rated.”
“Being unique is what's cool. Normal? What's normal? A setting on a washing machine. No one wants to be that.”
“Being unique seems more desirable than ever. People are exhausted by clichés, by platitudes, by mass-produced realities, by what's been done and done and done. The role of a true artist is to present their own unique vision, and so it has always made sense to me that works of art should be radical.”
“Being unlimited in your vision and goals but limiting your exposure in some ways is a great risk analysis strategy”
Source: Time Value of Money: Timing Income
“Being unmarried in a man’s world was such a hassle that anything had to be better. Marriage was better. But not much. Damned clever, I thought, how men had made life so intolerable for single women that most would gladly embrace even bad marriages instead.”
Source: fear of flying
“Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.”
“Being unprepared heightens nerves.”
“Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.”
“Being unstoppable is a choice to be free from
perfect, find beauty in everything, and truly live.”
Source: Stronger Now: How to Thrive in Any Circumstance and Become Unstoppable
“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”
“Being up front is the only place to be.”
“Being up here makes me feel small, but being with you makes me feel significant.”
Source: Passion Project
“Being up on something is a way of dismissing it. To espouse any point of view is a danger - it might leave us stuck with last year's cause. Prized for their novelty alone, ideas, gimmicks, trends become equivalent, interchangeable.”
Source: States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America
“Being upbeat is the key to life.”
“Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.”
“Being valuable is the start. But a good business also has to communicate its value to its customers and those customers have to also voluntarily be in agreement with that value. If the customers perceive the value, and determine that the value they obtain from your businesses products or services is greater than the value of the dollars, Renminbi or ETH they have in their wallet… then they will pay for what your business is selling. If not, they won’t.”
“Being varied is something I do instinctively and naturally. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment.”
“Being vegan doesn't make you a stronger, better athlete. But it allows you to make yourself a stronger, better athlete.”
“Being vegan helped me realize I can say and do what I believe is right. That's powerful.”
“Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I relate to the world.”
“Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia, and ableism. At some point, you have to decide who you are and what matters morally to you. And once you decide that you regard victimizing vulnerable nonhumans is not morally acceptable, it is easy to go and stay vegan”
“Being vegan is not a matter of "lifestyle." It is a matter of fundamental moral obligation. Is being vegan a matter of "choice"? Only insofar as we are able to choose to ignore our moral obligations not to exploit the vulnerable.”
“Being vegan is not always easy and accessible. But it's a way of life and makes me as a person feel really good and physically look better.”
“Being vegan is not just a matter of being 'kind' to animals. First and foremost, it is a matter of being just and observing our moral obligation to not treat other sentient beings as things.”
“Being vegan isn't about restricting oneself in any way, it's simply about ceasing to take things which clearly are not ours.”
Source: The Eden Fruitarian Guidebook
“Being vegan just gives you such great karma.”
“Being vegan or vegetarian isn't just about compassion for animals. Most of the destruction of the planet is the result of all the clear-cutting, groundwater contamination, grain production, fuel consumption, greenhouse gas, viral proliferation - the direct result of livestock production.”