B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“By definition, the principal beneficiaries are those who already possess considerable social, cultural, and economic advantages. Everyone else remains stuck in the basement.”
Source: Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
“By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.”
“By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.”
“By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.”
“By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.”
“By definition, as a Prime Minister I cannot be a liar.”
“By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.”
Source: Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world
“By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy.”
“By definition, half the people leaving the courtroom are unhappy. Any good judge can make more than half the people unhappy. The job is not to make people like you or make people think you're their friend.”
“By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest.”
“By definition, if man contributes anything toward acceptance by God, he loses everything. God expects man to be the recipient, not the originator. Jesus paid it all, not 99% of it. Paul wrote, "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast"”
“By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.”
“By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.”
“By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.”
Source: Handle with Care: A Novel
“By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.”
“By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.”
“By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon”
“By definition, revolutions are not linear, one step at a time, event A leading to event B, and so on. Many causes operate on each other at once. Revolutions shift into place suddenly, like the pattern in a kaleidoscope. They do not so much proceed as crystallize.”
Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s
“By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.”
Source: The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions
“By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.”
“By definition, saving - for anything - requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later.”
“By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.”
“By definition, the moment one crosses from center to left, one accepts more government control of people's lives. Therefore, the further left society moves, the more there is government control over its citizens' lives. It is astonishing that this obvious fact is not universally acknowledged and that the Left has somehow successfully portrayed itself as preoccupied with personal liberty.”
“By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.”
Source: Trainspotting
“By degrees, the bitterness at my heart diffused itself to the circumference of the circle in which my life went its cheerless mechanical round.”
Source: A Strange Story
“By dehumanizing others, among many other things, these people are also aiding the neocons and other forces of darkness to justify more war, more suffering, and more destruction.”
“By deliberately changing the internal image of reality, people can change the world.”
Source: Global mind change: the promise of the last years of the twentieth century
“By delivering experience, novels can alter the stance we adopt toward news - not much, I'm sure, but they can make it a little more difficult for us to consign "other people" to our tidy boxes. Widening our imaginative life might - it's not hard to imagine - also develop our ability to contemplate counterfactuals and our capacity to speculate about how things might differ from how they're being represented.”
“By demonstrating excellence in whatever skin we wear, we challenge ignorance by our very existence.”
“By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry , plot and narrative and character in fiction , the elite arts wrote off the vast majority of their audience . They purposely excluded people who approach art in part for pleasure and edification in favour of social one-upmanship and an ever-narrowing, in-crowd elite.”
“By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.”
“By denying women the opportunity to fail in the same way afforded to men, by raising the stakes for half of society so significantly, we have yet another socially constructed systemic barrier to women succeeding.”
Source: The Gender Bias: The Barriers That Hold Women Back, And How To Break Them
“By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.”
“By depriving the charged person of any defenses [the rulings] mean that sexual dalliance, however voluntarily engaged in, becomes harassment whenever an employee sees fit, after the fact, so to characterize it.”
“By deriving it's just powers from the governed, government becomes primarily a mechanism for defense against bodily harm, theft, and involuntary servitude. It cannot claim the power to redistribute money or property nor to force reluctant citizens to perform acts of charity against their will. Government is created by the people. No individual possesses the power to take another's wealth or to force others to do good, so no government has the the right to do such things either. The creature cannot exceed the creator.”
Source: The Constitution: A Heavenly Banner
“By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.”
Source: Men and manners: sketches and essays
“By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and should be a progressive factor not only economically. It will force the peasant to reflect on the bases of the capitalist system, demolish faith in the tsar and tsarism, and consequently in due course make the victory of the revolution easier... Psychologically all this talk about feeding the starving and so on essentially reflects the usual sugary sentimentality of our intelligentsia.”
“By developing a contaminated, stigmatized identity, the child victim takes the evil of the abuser into herself and thereby preserves her primary attachments to her parents. Because the inner sense of badness preserves a relationship, it is not readily given up even after the abuse has stopped; rather, it becomes a stable part of the child's personality structure.”
Source: Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
“By developing a sense of concern for others' well-being, then no matter what others' attitudes are, you can keep inner peace.”
“By developing a sense of respect for others and a concern for their welfare, we reduce our own selfishness, which is the source of all problems, and enhance our sense of kindness, which is a natural source of goodness.”
“By developing balance in your life, you will increase your energy, motivation, and your sense of satisfaction. In short, your happiness. Most people are as happy as they choose to be. May you choose to be very happy in 1998! SUCCESS to You . . .”
“By developing individual strengths, guarding against weaknesses, and appreciating the strengths of other types, life will be more amusing, more interesting, and more of a daily adventure than it could possibly be if everyone were alike.”
Source: Gifts differing: understanding personality type
“By developing your discipline and courage, you can refuse to let other people's mood swings govern your financial destiny. In the end, how your investments behave is much less important than how you behave.”
Source: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed
“By dialogue, we let God be present in our midst, for as we open ourselves to one another, we open ourselves to God.”
“By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?”
Source: The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan
“By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich”
“By digitizing a traditionally analog business model or process, we're effectively turning it into bits and atoms and enabling an infinite variety of possibilities.”
Source: Mastering Digital Business: How powerful combinations of disruptive technologies are enabling the next wave of digital transformation
“By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing how to keep silent, knowing that there are times when one should say nothing.”
Source: Alternating Current
“By dinnertime, Amanda had managed to pick off all of her red nail polish purely out of habit. She was disappointed and silently cursed at herself when she remembered not having anymore to put on. She stared at her fingernails for about twenty minutes for lack of something better to do.”
Source: No Hope For The Hopeless At Kings Park