B Quotes
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“By and large, the kind of science fiction which makes tomorrow's headlines as near as this morning's coffee has enlarged popular awareness of the modern, miraculous world of science we live in. It has helped generations of young people feel at age with a changing world.
But fashions change, old loves return, and now that Sputniks clutter up the sky with new and unfamiliar moons, the readers of science fiction are willing to wait to read tomorrow's headlines. Once again, I think, there is a place, a wish, a need for the wonder and color of the world way out. The world beyond the stars. The world we won't live to see. That is why I wrote The Door Through Space.”
Source: The Door Through Space
“By and large, the mission of any ghost is to offer humility. They point out what's important by mocking what is not.
(Joshua Malina, Sports Night)”
“By and large, the poor do not want some small life. They don't want to game the system or eke out an existence; they want to thrive and contribute.”
Source: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them”
Source: The Lessons of History
“By and large, the truth is not merely a fierce battle with ignorance and fallacy, but, first and foremost, a combat with our own preconceived ideas and aprioristic conceptions. ("The hidden sides of his character" )”
“By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.”
“By and large, Willy tried to be a good son. At those rare moments when he was able to stop thinking about himself, he even made a conscious effort to be nice to her [his mum]. If they had their differences, they were less a result of personal animosity than of starkly opposing world views.”
Source: Timbuktu
“By and large, Americans close their ears to anything not in English. That's stupid because there's some great music around the world that we should be listening to.”
“By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.”
“By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.”
Source: Critical Path
“By and large, I think it should be a rule in the teacher employment manual that you can't go attend any event where if you took your classroom on a student field trip, they would summarily be obliterated. That should be rule No. 1.”
“By and large, I've been healthy all my life.”
“By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.”
“By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.”
Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“By and large, life will give you what you deserve and it doesn't give a damn what you like. So it is up to you to take full responsibility to connect what you want with what you need to do to get it, and then to do those things.”
“By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.”
“by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.”
Source: Auto da Fay: A Memoir
“By and large, people are sort of technologically averse in the political space.”
“By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.”
Source: Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives
“By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith.”
Source: Who's Afraid of the Religious Right?
“By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed.”
Source: Screening history
“By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.”
Source: My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic
“By and large, the answer to the question "How do large institutions survive?" is "They don't!" The vast majority of large modern-day institutions - some of them extremely vital to the functioning of our complex civilization - simply fail to exist in the first place.”
“By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.”
Source: Shadow and Act
“By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.”
Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“By and large, the Healing Dream is not the defender of our waking goals-material achievement, perfect romance, a modest niche in history-but an advocate-general for the soul, whose aims may be diametrically different... The nourishment of the dreamworld is a reciprocal affair: as we provide for it, it provides for us.”
“By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need to ratchet this up.' If you do, don't call it 'Captain Phillips' or 'The Maersk Alabama.' Call it something else, and then you have carte blanche to do anything, down to sea serpents and aliens.”
“By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.”
“By and large, the world wants to move away from the nuclear era. The question is how fast and how far. In a world of sovereign nation-states, I can't rationalize any number above zero. If it's more than zero, you have to acknowledge every nation has the right to have them.”
“By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.”
“By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made.”
“By and large... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too much.”
Source: Storm of the Century: The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935
“By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.”
“By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.”
“By another angle, Hardy is pessimist about gods and optimist about the man. Bhutta”
“By anticipation we sugar misery and enjoy happiness before they are in being. We can set the sun and stars forward, or lose sight of them by wandering into those retired parts of eternity when the heavens and earth shall be no more.”
“By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.”
Source: Ancient Gonzo Wisdom
“By any means necessary, I am for Africa.”
“By any means necessary.”
“By any rational metric, I am boring.”
“By any reasonable criteria, the discipline of economics as a whole, in its present state, is sadly lacking.”
“By any reasonable definition of the term, the Archons are crazy.”
Source: Cali the Destroyer
“By any reasonable definition, the Christian God is an extraterrestrial. And given God’s track record of demanding human sacrifices and destroying whole cities, one could make a very strong case we are talking about an extremely malevolent force.”
Source: Cali the Destroyer
“By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.”
Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
“By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. Today the greatest divide within humanity is not between races, or religions, or even, as is widely believed, between the literate and illiterate. It is the chasm that separates scientific from prescientific cultures.”
Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
“By any reasonable standard of proof, the combination of human epidemiology and track-analysis demonstrates that there is no threshold dose or dose-rate below which "repair" invariably prevents health harm.”
“By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such views-not of a narrow river, as there is across town, but of one of the noblest rivers in the United States.”
“By any rights, he should be dead. He was involved in an explosion with a bomb, which he happened to be carrying at the time. Conrad is something of a scientific miracle. There are more than thirty metal pins in his body. He has a metal plate in his skull. There are metal wires in his jaw and in most of his major joints."
"He must set off a lot of airport alarms," Alex muttered.”
Source: Skeleton Key
“By any sane definition of success, if you wake up in a pool of blood and nobody has shot you, you are not successful.”
“By anyone's measure, [Warren Beatty] is proven himself. But he still sets out to make something as great as it possibly can be.”