B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.”
“By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.”
“By dint of that concern and because that society was willing to examine its particular reality, Solidarity could come into existence.”
“By dint of waiting, he hoped his heart would wear out and stop beating. What other way was there to stop loving someone?”
Source: The Killer's Tears
“By dipping us children in the Bible so often, they hoped, I think, to give our lives a serious tint, and to provide us with quaintly magnificent snatches of prayer to produce as charms while, say, being mugged for our cash or jewels.”
Source: An American Childhood
“By directing combat and war pieces, I could experience catharsis and successfully avoid committing a murder in real life. In this sense, I'm really grateful for that because I was conscious that I had such homicidal traits, to be honest.”
“By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we surrender of innocent love of self is exchanged for the safeties and pleasures of belonging to a larger whole. We are born dependent, but only imagination can bind our passions to other human beings.”
Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood
“By disciplining and training the mind to focus on one thing, we gain control of perception; we learn to grab it and put it someplace we want it to be.”
“By disciplining our thoughts, we can direct our focus towards positive and productive thinking, which in turn can lead to the manifestation of our goals and dreams.”
Source: Paradigm Shift: Change Your Mindset and Live the Life of Your Dreams
“By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.”
“By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.”
Source: Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson
“By dislaiming the idea of a next life, we can take more excitement in this one!”
“By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.”
Source: Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics
“By dismissing the perspectives of others, you jeopardize the depreciation of your own worth.”
Source: The Girl From America
“By dismissing what could work, we dismiss our own growth. We dismiss what's possible.”
Source: The Attractor Factor: 5 Easy Steps for Creating Wealth (or Anything Else) from the Inside Out
“By disobeying immoral orders, that individual preserves the institution's highest rank - dignity.”
Source: Voice of Reason
“BY DISPOSITION OF ANGELS
Messengers much like ourselves? Explain it.
Steadfastness the darkness makes explicit?
Something heard most clearly when not near it?
Above particularities,
these unparticularities praise cannot violate.
One has seen, in such steadiness never deflected,
how by darkness a star is perfected.
Star that does not ask me if I see it?
Fir that would not wish me to uproot it?
Speech that does not ask me if I hear it?
Mysteries expound mysteries.
Steadier than steady, star dazzling me, live and elate,
no need to say, how like some we have known; too like her,
too like him, and a-quiver forever.”
Source: Complete Poems
“By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.”
“By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men.”
“By dividing the total cycle of 25,920 years by the twelve astrological signs, each astrological age equals 2,160 years. Each age also represents approximately 30 degrees of the 2,160 year cycle.”
Source: Aquarius Rising: Christianity and Judaism Explained Using the Science of the Stars
“By divine design, men and women are intended to progress together toward perfection and a fulness of glory. Because of their distinctive temperaments and capacities, males and females each bring to a marriage relationship unique perspectives and experiences.”
“By divine mandate the interpreter and guardian of the Scriptures, and the depository of Sacred Tradition living within her, the Church alone is the entrance to salvation: She alone, by herself, and under the protection and guidance of the Holy Spirit, is the source of truth.”
“By dog! I love you, and your hate spewing god. How became so both of you, dog?”
“By doing a complete 180 and acting like you have a thing for me? Do you expect me to believe you’re Mr. Knightley all of a sudden”
Source: The Crush
“By doing actions, one will not attain Liberation [Moksha]; through understanding leads one to Liberation. The fruit (effect) of action is the worldly life [sansaar].”
“By doing good we become good.”
Source: Emile
“By doing good with his money, a man, as it were, stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass current for the merchandise of heaven.”
“By doing good, we do well.”
“By doing his share in the associated activity, the individual appropriates the purpose which actuates it, becomes familiar with its methods and subject matters, acquires needed skill, and is saturated with its emotional spirit.”
Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education
“By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I'll learn how to die, and leave the world and hope to land in light.”
Source: Odd Hours
“By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.”
“By doing more of what is right, you will reduce the chances of doing anything wrong.”
Source: Quantraz
“By doing nothing we learne to do ill.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“By doing ordinary actions efficiently you will become the best among ordinary, but you will not be an extraordinary.”
“By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?”
“By doing that and being very competitive, the grown-ups started telling me even back before I started playing organized ball that I was too physical and too advanced for the kids my own age.”
“By doing the only core exercise, leg raises on wall bars, you can develop the strength needed to perform numerous other core exercises with ease, making them unnecessary.”
Source: Enhancing the Benefits of Nauli with a Key Exercise for Abdominal Muscle Strength: Second Edition
“By doing the things that are noble, we become noble and by doing the things that are evil, we become evil.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better.”
“By doing things when you are too tired, by pushing yourself farther than you thought you could - like running the track after a two-hour practice - you become a competitor. Each time you go beyond your perceived limit, you become mentally stronger.”
Source: Reach for the Summit
“By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands now, we make ourselves stronger; and improving our strength in this manner step by step, we may reach a state in which it shall be our privilege to do the most coveted and honored duties in life and in society.”
“By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger”
Source: Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation
“By doing what I do, by just staying, pardon me, true to myself and maintaining my maverick position, unbranded, unbought in a corporate sense, I've managed to migrate to and participate in the work of people far younger than my own children. This astounds me. It makes me feel all at once, beyond retirement age, as a player in the present tense. I'm a lucky guy.”
“By doing what our assailant least expects us to do, we may throw him completely off. ... what he usually least suspects is instant, violent counterattack, so the principle of aggressiveness is closely tied to threat of surprise.”
“By doing what you love and finding how to serve, you add a very special joy to life.”
Source: Stardust Family - We Are One!
“By doing your best, the habits of misusing your word, taking things personally, and making assumptions will become weaker and less frequent with time. You don't need to judge yourself, feel guilty, or punish yourself if you cannot keep these agreements.”
Source: The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
“By doubting we are led to enquire, and by enquiry we perceive the truth.”
“By doubting we come at truth.”
“By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth.”
“By downplaying clear targets and frameworks, ... the Prime Minister is ignoring calls from UK companies who want a clear framework to operate within now. There has been a lot of discussion about the false choice between targets and technologies, but the reality is that without both we cannot achieve either.”