B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.”
“Basic dance--and I should qualify the word basic--is primarily concerned with motion. So immediately you will say but the basketball player is concerned with motion. That is so--but he is not concerned with it primarily. His action is a means towards an end beyond motion. In basic dance the motion is its own end--that is, it is concerned with nothing beyond itself.”
“Basic Economics 101. It's the most complicated simple subject there is.”
“Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you.”
“Basic facts tend always to be those most easily overlooked.”
Source: Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5
“Basic gardening knowledge tells us that plants located adjacent to each other in the same soil, with similar exposure to sunlight and equal access to water and nourishment may grow at different rates and in different ways. My siblings and I were very different—in personality and temperament, in our views and opinions, and in our dreams and ambitions for the future. How could I be expected to evolve at the same pace and in the same direction as a stranger with whom I had tried (and failed) to build a mutually enabling relationship?”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.”
“Basic income is not a utopia, it's a practical business plan for the next step of the human journey.”
“Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude”
“BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.”
“BASIC LIFE ATTRIBUTES
Four purusharthas or goals of the life be,
So very crystal clear in life undisputedly;
1
Artha getting useful wealth and prosperity,
Finding the meaning for living herein truly;
2
Kama fulfilling desires, acting repeatedly,
It the physical, material desire fulfillment be;
14
Dharma – the foundation of all human goals be,
Refers to obligations, conduct, moral duties;
25
Moksha – the liberation from the web of maya be,
Freedom from the cycles of birth and death clearly;
33
As all the rivers must lead to the sea eventually,
All spiritual paths leading to the same goal finally;
43
And all of the variety of life are created certainly,
By combination of the three Gunas undisputedly.
44”
Source: Goals of Life
“Basic misunderstandings about DID encountered in the therapeutic community include the following:
° The expectation that all clients with DID will present in a Sybil-like manner, with obvious switching and extreme changes in personality.
° That therapists create DID in their clients.
° That DID clients have very little control over their internal systems and can be expected to stay in the mental health system indefinitely.
° That alter personalities, especially child alters, are simply regressive states associated with anxiety or that switching represents a psychotic episode.
Anyone who experiences dissociation on a regular basis knows better, however. DID is not only disruptive to everyday life but is also confusing and, at times, frightening.”
“Basic personality traits develop early in life and over time become inviolable, hardwired. Most people learn little from experience, rarely thinking of adjusting their behavior, see problems as emanating from those around them, and keep on doing what they do in spite of everything, for better or worse.”
Source: The Silent Wife: A Novel
“Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.”
Source: THE WILL TO MANAGE CORPORATE THROUGH PROGRAMMED MANAGEMENT
“Basic Principles:
1. Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.
2. There is an underlying, in-dwelling creative force infusing all of life -- including ourselves.
3. When we open ourselves to our creativity, we open ourselves to the creator's creativity within us and our lives.
4. We are, ourselves, creations. And we, in turn, are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves.
5. Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.
6. The refusal to be creative is self-will and is counter to our true nature.
7. When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good orderly direction.
8. As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.
9. It is safe to open ourselves up to greater and greater creativity.
10. Our creative dreams and yearnings come from a divine source. As we move toward our dreams, we move toward our divinity.”
“Basic principles: no matter what, no matter when, no matter who... any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet. He just needs the right broom.”
“Basic problem is that all models are wrong - not got enough middle and low level clouds.”
“Basic purpose of advance or current secret intelligence is to ensure that the government faces no surprises and the information gathered helps it make informed decisions or take counter-action.”
Source: The Ultimate Goal: A Former R&AW Chief Deconstructs How Nations Construct Narratives
“Basic reality seems to be that the more you try to be like God by radiating unlimited love, the more you become flooded by waves of love from others and from God.”
Source: Pure Unlimited Love
“Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target.”
“Basic research is not the same as development. A crash programme for the latter may be successful; but for the former it is like trying to make nine women pregnant at once in the hope of getting a baby in a month's time.”
“Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.”
“Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.”
“Basic scientific research is scientific capital.”
Source: Science, the endless frontier: A report to the President
“Basic services such as electricity have never been worse and the economy of Arab Iraq is in ruins.”
“Basic steps when giving:
-Don't give to receive
-Don't give to impress
-No cameras
-Include your heart”
“Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose. That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful. But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.”
“Basically ... out of all the ridiculous religion stories which are greatly, wonderfully ridiculous—the silliest one I've ever heard is, 'Yeah ... there's this big giant universe and it's expanding, it's all gonna collapse on itself and we're all just here just 'cause ... just 'cause'. That, to me, is the most ridiculous explanation ever.”
“Basically [I become a Republican], pretty early. I had an English teacher that got me to subscribe to the National Review.”
“Basically [Louise] Brandeis was a Jeffersonian. And you say the timing is great, and it is in a lot of senses, except not for [Tomas] Jefferson, because this is a Hamiltonian moment, and he's the rock star of the minute with a great musical.”
“Basically [United States and France] said "We will use nuclear weapons whenever it suits our purposes to do so." So this expansion of doctrines regarding possible use of nuclear weapons makes them more, you know, sort of, salient and important and so it's increasing the perceived political value of nuclear weapons and therefore causing or contributing to possible proliferation.”
“Basically all the religions,sciences and powers of the world boil down to a simple truth. The Best Story Teller will win in the end!”
“Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia.”
“Basically Britney Spears' video is like a three an a half minute version of Glitter.”
“Basically, control is just an illusion. Far too many factors contribute to everything that happens during a day, even during an hour, a week, a month, a year. And that's the end of the matter. You think you control something because you think you recognize a certain pattern, so you imagine that you’re always gonna achieve the same results with the same actions. Until something unexpected happens.”
Source: Another dance in the flames
“Basically, dating is like climbing a volcano and you never know when it’s going to erupt, dumping molten lava and burning you”
Source: Wild About Her Wingman
“Basically every song on modern metal albums follows a formula and you get that formula in between one to three tracks.”
“Basically, everyone thinks--knows--how sweet I am.
Emma, you threw my sister through hurricane-proof glass.”
Source: Of Poseidon
“Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working. I'll go back and use something that disgusted me 15 years ago but that I had enough sense to think about. Some artists change dramatically. I see my work more like history being written.”
“Basically, exfoliation causes the cells to send signals to produce new skin cells. It also stimulates the production of new collagen fibers, replacing the damaged, irregular, and aged collagen fibers. Exfoliation can reverse the thinning of the collagen in the dermis that occurs with aging, and it also enhances the work of treatment creams and serums. This is why I prefer evening for exfoliation.”
Source: The Age Fix: A Leading Plastic Surgeon Reveals How to Really Look 10 Years Younger
“Basically for everything that comes out of Five Four, I've come up with the idea or changed it in some way. I'm also working with Putnam Accessory Group, a private label hat manufacturer. I'm in the process of re-branding a line they have called Chuck. It was mostly hats and bags, but I'm adding apparel and eyewear and whatever I feel like adding to turn it more into a brand. I'm supposed to be working with Pharrell on Billionaire Boys Club, but that's on hold.”
“Basically for me a story can be anything. Anything you tell me, anything I read in the newspaper, in any mode. I don't have any restrictions.”
“Basically he never went to work and didn't have a job. Of course I thought he did. I thought he was on the phone doing business deals instead of borrowing money from people.”
“Basically I am a low-culture person. I prefer watching baseball with a beer and some meatballs.”
“Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.”
“Basically I can't sleep without every single song I'm writing repeating endlessly, but I'm loving it again. Embracing the torture, as I'm assaulted by my own thoughts. Like a locust giving birth to earworms. Eeeeew!”
“Basically I don't care what people think of me. I'm not in the communications business.”
“Basically I got an insight into what it really was through Alcoholics Anonymous. One day the switchboard lit up and I saw where it was all going. I saw what alcohol could do to people and I saw that it wasn't a good thing anymore. Plus I wasn't a teenager anymore myself.”
“Basically I have, like, five really close friends - girls and guys. I like being friends with both because you can do different things with both.”