B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Base men who prosper are unenviable.”
“Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in the universe.”
“Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.”
“Base not your joy on the deeds of others. For what has been given can be taken away.”
“Base souls have no faith in great individuals.”
“Base stealing for me is another sport all by itself. It's a game within a game. I'm the mouse and the cats are trying to trap me.”
Source: It pays to steal
“Base thy life on principle, not on rules.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.”
Source: Translation of the Iliad of Homer
“Base words are uttered only by the base
And can for such at once be understood;
But noble platitudes - ah, there's a case
Where the most careful scrutiny is needed
To tell a voice that's genuinely good
From one that's base but merely has succeeded.”
“Base your happiness on being real, not on illusions and expectations.”
Source: Spiritual Solutions: Answers to Life's Greatest Challenges
“Base your understanding of the world on data, rather than journalism.
Journalism is a highly non random sample of the worst things that have happened in any given period.
It is an availability machine, in the sense of Tversky and Kahneman's availability heuristic; namely - our sense of risk, danger and prevalence is driven by anecdotes, images and narratives that are available in memory.
A lot of good things are either things that "don't happen" (like a country at peace, or a city that has not been attacked by terrorists, which almost by definition are not news), or things that build up incrementally, a few percentage points a year, and then compound (like the decline of extreme poverty).
We can be unaware, out to lunch about what's happening in the world if we base our view on the news. If instead we base our view on data, then not only do we see that many (although not all) things have gone better (not linearly, not without setbacks and reversals, but in general a lot better... and that paradoxically, as I've cheekily put it, progressives hate progress), but also that the best possible case for progress - that is, for striving for more progress in the future, for being a true progressive - is not to have some kind of foolish hope, but to look at the fact that progress has taken place in the past; and that means: why should it stop now?”
“Base your voting process off your research.”
Source: The Secret of Greatness
“Base yourself in loyalty and trust. Don't be companion with those who are not your moral equal. When you make a mistake, don't hesitate to correct it.”
“Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.”
“Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.”
“Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.”
Source: Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer
“Baseball and malaria keep coming back.”
“Baseball as I have said before to many... many parents it's not about wins and losses. It's about the life lessons that are learned on that baseball field. The perseverance, the hard work that it takes, dealing with failure.”
“Baseball been berry berry good to me!”
“Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying.”
Source: The Best of Brain Droppings
“Baseball builds more character than bible.”
Source: Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
“Baseball calls it a curve ball for a reason: you just don't know where some pitches will land. Your ace could get injured. Your golden glover could err. Your team could sit through a rain delay. Your manager could get ejected. Your bench must be broad and deep enough to overcome.”
“Baseball can be a game of peaks and valleys. Mentally, I want to stay away from the ups and downs and just maintain a level approach.”
“Baseball can build you up to the sky one day and the next day you have to climb a stepladder to look up at a snake.”
“Baseball can have its perfect dimensions, its undeniable drama, but hockey, for all its wrongs, still has the potential to deliver a momentary, flashing magic that is found in no other game we play.”
“Baseball caps never go out of style and are easy to wear. Beyond baseball, beyond sports, I really do think a baseball cap is for everyone.”
“Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.”
Source: The Babe Ruth story as told to Bob Considine: with 49 photos
“Baseball didn't really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak. Getting a daily hit became more important to me than eating, drinking or sleeping.”
“Baseball does have some slack here. When they were losing $20 million a year in Montreal, there was some pressure to get rid of it. But as long as they are [profitable] in Washington, there is less pressure. They've got eight bona fide $450 million offers to buy the team, and those offers aren't going to go away soon.”
“Baseball doesn't seem very important on a day like this...When you live in the United States and you think it's the greatest country in the world, you feel somewhat protected and immune. You read about [terrorism] happening in other parts of the world. A day like this makes you rethink. A lot of us really have a false sense of what the world is really like.”
“Baseball endures at least in part because it is a contemplative sport that delights in nuances. Not a brazen game, eager to sell its thrills cheaply, but rather an understated affair that must be courted if its to be loved.”
“Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.”
“Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.”
“Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.”
“Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.”
“Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.”
Source: Shoeless Joe
“Baseball gets better for whatever reason.”
“Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.”
“Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.”
Source: Ted Williams' Hit List
“Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove you haven't got what it takes.”
“Baseball got into my blood early and I worked harder at it than anything.”
Source: Pride: the Charley Pride story
“Baseball grips a man down to his soul like a love for the sea, until he will make any sacrifice to follow it. —Harold C. Burr, Baseball Magazine, April 1939”
“Baseball has a funny way to tap you on the shoulder when you least expect it and tells you it's the end.”
“Baseball has a special place in our hearts. It is the game that shows us as we would like to be.”
Source: The Best of Mary McGrory: A Half-Century of Washington Commentary
“Baseball has all the money.”
“Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.”
“Baseball has always been slow to accept change. Only through dire pressure can any radical change be accomplished. The move of the Giants and Dodgers from New York to California brought that pressure in abundance.”
“Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.”
“Baseball has been the greatest things in my life, but the cameras and the media surrounding baseball have not been fun. It's unnecessary. How many times do they see me stretch? How many times do they see me walk? It is a big concern. If it affected the team in a negative way, I don't know what I would do.”
“Baseball has been very good to me.”