B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.”
Source: Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords
“By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right also implies a duty: one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.”
“By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.”
“By accepting a suspicion against the neighbor, by saying, 'What does it matter if I put in a word about my suspicion? What does it matter if I find out what my brother is saying or what a guest is doing?' the mind begins to forget about its own sins and to talk idly about his neighbor, speaking evil against him, despising him, and from this he falls into the very thing he condemns. Because we become careless about our own faults and do not lament our own death, we lose the power to correct ourselves and we are always at work on our neighbor.”
“By accepting and learning to embrace the inevitable sorrows of life, we realize that we can experience a more enduring sense of happiness.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.”
Source: Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God
“By accepting life before it happens, and letting go of your inner resistance to all things you cannot change, you unlock true emotional freedom from all of your self-imposed emotional pain.”
“By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.”
“By accepting our aging and letting its lessons broaden us internally, we become calmer in the face of the body's inevitable deterioration. Becoming less attached to our outer appearance is so liberating.”
“By accepting responsibility, we take effective steps toward our goal: an inclusive human society on a habitable planet, a society that works for all humans and for all nonhumans. By accepting responsibility, we move closer to creating a world that works for all.”
“By accepting the pro-sex work position that prostitution is a ‘choice’, advocates have consigned prostituted women to a segregated class of women who are kept in systems of sexual exploitation that pass for benevolent institutions, especially in those countries and states where the prostitution industry is legalized or decriminalized. So-called ‘progressive’ LGBT+ organizations are in the vanguard of advocating the decriminalizing of prostitution, where brothels, pimping and sex buyers are the building blocks of an ever-expanding sexual exploitation industry that has ravaged the lives of women through a romanticizing of ‘free choice’, a ‘choice’ that is not free for the thousands of women who are abused in the industry.”
Source: Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism
“By accepting the process of letting go, we make people and things that we can’t stay with forever a part of our history.”
“By accepting the things as they are, you allow yourself to make the right choices.”
Source: When Roses are Crushed
“By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving”
“By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.”
“By accident Jeb Bush announced that he was running for president. And then he said, 'No, not yet. OK, I made a mistake.' And then later in the day, by accident, he called Hillary and congratulated her.”
“By accident of geography, the world's major oil resources are in Shi'ite-dominated areas. Iran's oil is concentrated right near the gulf, which happens to be an Arab area, not Persian. Khuzestan is Arab, has been loyal to Iran, fought with Iran not Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. This is a potential source of dissension. I would be amazed if there isn't an attempt going on to stir up secessionist elements in Khuzestan.”
“By acknowledging, accepting, and leaning into your pain, you are able to integrate and transform your struggles into healing and healthy wisdom.”
Source: The Art of an Enlightened Woman: A Manifesto
“By acknowledging and accepting the ultimate commonality, we can naturally and voluntarily develop the attitude of compassion and benevolence toward other people, other life-forms, and all beings. We will want to live for the good of all because we know that's the way we benefit ourselves, too.”
Source: Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential
“By acknowledging and preparing for adversity, you will forge your ambition in the fires of difficulty, ensuring that your dreams are not easily extinguished.”
Source: Machiavellian Dreams: A Manual
“By acknowledging how ridiculous something is, people know what’s real again. We need those refreshers. It’s amazing how out of touch people can be when pretending there’s no elephant in the room. People must be elephant finders. But not of those big, monstrous, disgusting elephants, but the cute tiny ones in the room that we were each privately suspecting.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“By acknowledging my impermanence, I can consider if there is anything I can do now to help my loved ones who will be left behind cope with losing me and to facilitate healing.”
Source: A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent
“By acknowledging our boundaries and limitations, we attain greater heights than we ever will by appearing to think we know everything.”
“By acquiescing in an act that can cause such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished as a human being.”
Source: Silent Spring
“By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?”
“By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your end product have a great spirit.”
“By acquiring Gnan (true worldly knowledge) one can tell 'what is right' and 'what is wrong', it makes one have discretion between good and bad; whereas by Knowing Vignan (spiritual science), one attains liberation. By acquiring Gnan (true worldly knowledge) one gets awareness of what is beneficial and what is harmful.”
Source: Right Understanding To Help Others
“By acting as if I was not afraid, I gradually ceased to be afraid.”
Source: Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt
“By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act.”
Source: The Positive Principle Today
“By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.”
Source: Compassion in action: setting out on the path of service
“By acting in a positive, pleasant and optimistic way, you become a positive, optimistic and enjoyable person.”
Source: Universal Laws of Success
“By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.”
“By activating an expansive, tolerant, and creative mindset, positive feelings maximize the social, intellectual, and physical benefits that will accrue.”
Source: Authentic Happiness
“By actively overseeing and providing guidance on risk management and cybersecurity, the board demonstrates its commitment to protecting the company's assets, reputation, and long-term success.”
Source: Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance
“By actively proving to yourself and others that you believe you are capable of becoming better than you currently are, you would unlock your potential over time, and this possibility can motivate you to do more.”
“By actively thinking about the implications a space has on its inhabitants, we can create great experiences for those who enter. Make Space is an articulate account about the importance of space; how we think about it, build it and thrive in it.”
“By actually taking Sleepy Hollow and the Rip Van Winkle story, and finding the spirit of what was great about both of them and putting them together. So it felt, actually, like one of those ideas that clicked for us, right away, on instinct.”
“By adapting and adjusting to randomness, you shape but do not control your endpoint.”
Source: The 5 Essentials: Using Your Inborn Resources to Create a Fulfilling Life
“By adding new meaning, we add value.”
“By adding vegetables like carrots, potatoes and zucchini, you were able to create seven separate pâtes of different colors.
And each pâte has been cooked in a way to maximize the deliciousness of each vegetable. I'm impressed you were able to complete all that work in so little time."
"You made two separate sauces too. A sweet and tangy sudachi gelée...
... and a refreshing green herb sauce centered on shiso... and mixed with other fragrant herbs to make a pesto."
"Wow! Seasoning a European terrine with distinctly Japanese flavors like sudachi and shiso... what a fresh idea!"
"Mmmm! The sautéed zucchini together with the herb sauce is so invigoratingly zesty and tasty! Exquisite!"
"The tangy sudachi sauce goes well with the mildly sweet tomatoes too."
"Seven different pâtes with two different sauces means there are fourteen flavors to enjoy.
I'm already excited to try various combinations!"
"Me too. It seems the colorful rainbow stripes aren't only pleasing to the eye...
they also manage to be equally pleasing to the palate!”
Source: 食戟のソーマ 4 [Shokugeki no Souma 4]
“By addressing fears and communicating openly, you can find a balance that honors both personal aspirations and family responsibilities.”
Source: Fear OFF Life: Psychological tools to overcome 21st century fears
“By addressing the building as an empty signifier (just as the Bauhaus lamp reveals the electrical wiring inside, so the Pompidou exposes its content and function according to a relationship that Baudrillard deems totally arbitrary), the Pompidou Centre is downgraded from architectural icon to hyper- functionalist failure.”
Source: Baudrillard for Architects
“By addressing the factors contributing to underperformance, we can unlock human potential, ensuring that no gift goes untapped and empowering individuals to reach new heights.”
“By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed by his family and function in the real world without doing violence to the hopes his mother held out for him. But those who cannot live within this pattern are the freaks and poets, and they travel a different road to peace.”
Source: Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties
“By admitting that the only guarantee not to be robbed of the fruits of your labour is to possess the instruments of labour - which is true - the economists only prove that man really produces most when he works in freedom, when he has a certain choice in his occupations, when he has no overseer to impede him, and lastly, when he sees his work bringing in a profit to him and to others who work like him, but bringing in little to idlers. Nothing else can be deducted from their argumentation and this is what we maintain ourselves.”
Source: The Conquest of Bread and Other Writings
“By admitting they have no contingency plan to assist the millions that may lose subsidies, the administration confirms how the misguided law is unworkable for the American people. I’m committed to working with my Republican colleagues on how Congress can respond to help those hurt by Obamacare’s broken promises.”
“By adolescence, if not earlier, people are getting feedback about their market value, feedback that shapes their self-esteem and thus affects how high they aim their sights.”
Source: The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
“By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.”
“By adopting an agile mindset and providing improved engagement, collaboration, transparency, and adaptability via Scrum's values, roles, events, and artifacts, the results were excellent.”
Source: Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change
“By adopting programs to distribute substantial amounts of income, a nation guarantees that its government will become more powerful and invasive in other ways.”