B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.”
“By adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts, and exchanges. The financing of all public enterprises, the maintenance of stable government and ordered progress, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical administration. The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own government.”
“By affliction He teaches us many precious lessons, which without it we should never learn. By affliction He shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from the world, makes us long for heaven.”
“By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.”
Source: Letters: Including Several Never Before Published
“By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.”
“By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.”
“By age twelve I had memorized all the Qur’an’s words, yet understood few of them—a bit like repeatedly watching a foreign film without any subtitles, knowing the scenes in detail without comprehending the dialogue.”
Source: The Life of the Qur'an: From Eternal Roots to Enduring Legacy
“By aggrandizing one's own abilities and achievements, the grandiose person remains out of touch with who they truly are and as such, remains prone to crossing the boundaries of others.”
Source: Make Self-Knowledge Great Again
“By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.”
Source: Hindu Dharma
“By aligning actions with her vision and mission, a school's reputation can be enhanced.”
“by aligning with her autonomic nervous system (ANS) activation instead of trying to move her toward a ventral state, ventral could arrive on its own.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“By all account you are art.”
“By all accounts, she should be dead, but she was moving. How was that even possible?”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“By all accounts, we're damned regardless. But I hope,maybe foolishly, we'll get some measure of credit for trying”
Source: New Moon
“By all accounts, the senate race I ran in was a quality race in the wrong year.”
“By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.”
Source: the new industrial state
“By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.”
Source: A short history of decay
“By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing; but instead of nonchalantly promenading our own corruption, we exude our sweat and grow winded upon the fetid air.”
“By all implies marry if you get a great wife/husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you are going to become a philosopher.”
“By all indications, American business leaders are more adept at creating business strategies than they are skilled at human capital management. American entrepreneurs are world-beaters when it comes to creating new businesses, and corporate managers are adept at using the latest marketing, financial, and technological practices.”
“By all kinds of traps and sign-boards, threatening the extreme penalty of the divine law, exclude such trespassers from the only ground which can be sacred to you. It is so hard to forget what it is worse than useless to remember! If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain-brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the town-sewers. There is inspiration, that gossip which comes to the ear of the attentive mind from the courts of heaven. There is the profane and stale revelation of the bar-room and the police court. The same ear is fitted to receive both communications. Only the character of the hearer determines to which it shall be open, and to which closed. I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality. Our very intellect shall be macadamized, as it were,--its foundation broken into fragments for the wheels of travel to roll over; and if you would know what will make for the most durable pavement, surpassing rolled stones, spruce blocks, and asphaltum, you have only to look into some of our minds which have been subjected to this treatment so long.”
Source: Life Without Principle
“By all means ask for abundance and health for you, but also ask for it to be given to everyone.”
Source: The Secret Daily Teachings
“By all means attend to your duties. Action, in which you are not emotionally involved and which is beneficial and does not cause suffering will not bind you. You may be engaged in several directions and work with enormous zest, yet remain inwardly free and quiet, with a mirror like mind, which reflects all, without being affected.”
“By all means be compassionate but never allow the envious into your inner circle.”
“By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment”
“By all means be selfish; the right way. Wish yourself well, labour at what is good for you. Destroy all that stands between you and happiness. Be all; love all; be happy; make happy. No happiness is greater.”
“By all means be submissive in the bedroom (if you are that way inclined), but don't be submissive to life. Being life's bitch is no fun at all. Life may play up in many ways, but it's up to you to take control, take charge and show life who's really calling the shots.”
Source: Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
“By all means, become an abomination--but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.”
Source: The Last Werewolf
“By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.”
“By all means break the rules.”
“By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many.”
“By all means," cried Bingley; "let us hear all the particulars, not forgetting their comparative height and size; for that will have more weight in the argument, Miss Bennet, than you may be aware of. I assure you that if Darcy were not such a great tall fellow, in comparison with myself, that I should not pay him half so much deference. I declare I do not know a more awful object than Darcy, on particular occasions, and in particular places; at his own house especially, and of a Sunday evening, when he has nothing to do.”
Source: Pride & Predjudice
“By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.”
“By all means give vent to your anger, let it out in nondestructive ways--if you are still deciding to have it. But begin to think of yourself as someone who can learn to think new thoughts when you are frustrated, so that the immobilizing anger can be replaced by more fulfilling emotions. Annoyance, irritation, and disappointment are feelings that you will very likely continue to experience, since the world will never be the way you want it. But anger, that hurtful emotional response to obstacles, can be eliminated.”
“By all means judge and react, but at some point afterwards be sure to reflect and switch sides. The next time you might be less quick to react.”
“By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.”
“By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. -this quote is actually found in Carl Sagan's book The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, where he attributes it to engineer James Oberg, who says he stole it from someone else.”
“By all means listen to other people's advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct.”
“By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.”
“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
“By all means must we fly; not with our feet, however, but with our hands.”
“By all means never fail to get all the sunshine and fresh air you can.”
Source: Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology
“By all means play the game of life, create new visions and have fun but do not identify yourself with your vision.”
Source: The Mystery of Belief: How to Manifest Your Dreams
“By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together.”
“By all means rid yourself of an impoverished faith.”
“By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there.”
“By all means take thought for the tomorrow, yes, careful thought and planning and preparation. But have no anxiety.”
Source: How to stop worrying & start living
“By all means, take your emotions along for the ride, but make sure you are driving the car.”
“By all means, tell the cops about the crazy robot lady with the black leather body suit and the Kill Bill sword. Hope you like straitjackets.”
Source: Bounty
“By all means tell the world how good you are - but do it with actions, not words.”