B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“By far, the content of Canadian films. You're able to push the envelope in ways you can't in the U.S., I find. But also, because of the budgets and everything, it's all condensed, quick, and short.”
“By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.”
“By Fate, by Destiny, said the Vermonter. By the fact that time runs in only one direction, and we are borne along by it, influenced precisely as we are, to do just the things that we do, the bass lisper said.”
Source: Lincoln in the Bardo
“By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom.”
“By fate or forgery, our dances are entwined for eternity.”
Source: Fire & Raine
“By Feeling Good Throughout the Day, you Become an Instrument of Peace”
Source: The Invisible Force: 365 Ways to Apply the Power of Intention to Your Life: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
“By feeling the sunshine, or pleasure, we end up forgetting all of our miseries, or pains in life.”
Source: Resistance To Intolerance
“By fetishizing youth and virginity, we're supporting a disturbing message: that really sexy women aren't women at all- they're girls.”
Source: The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women
“By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.”
Source: How to win friends & influence people
“By finally enforcing our immigration laws, we will raise wages, help the unemployed, save billions and billions of dollars, and make our communities safer for everyone.”
“By finding a way to keep gratitude as a constant companion, the blessings of joy and contentment become our reward.”
Source: The Miracle Collectors: Uncovering Stories of Wonder, Joy, and Mystery
“By finding the courage to be ourselves, we gain the power to make a difference.”
“By finding waste and abuse in entitlement programs, and eliminating it, we can ensure that the funds that are put into these programs go to the people that need them the most.”
“By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled into life; How Love and Sympathy with potent charm Warm the cold heart, the lifted hand disarm; Allure with pleasures, and alarm with pains, And bind Society in golden chains.”
Source: The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts ... The Economy of Vegetation, and The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes
“By first grade, my sense of worth was in direct proportion to what I learned and what I contributed back to the class. I had already become a human doing instead of a human being.”
Source: Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
“By first light, immigrants haul crates of melons and buckets of ice over the narrow cobblestone streets. Old men sell salted capers and branches of wild oregano while the young ones build their fish stands, one silvery torqued body at a time, like an edible art installation. It's a startling scene: gruff young palermitani, foul-mouthed and wreathed in cigarette smoke, lovingly laying out each fish at just the right angle, burrowing its belly into the ice as if to mimic its swimming position in the ocean. Sicilian sun and soil and ingenuity have long produced some of Italy's most prized raw ingredients, and the colors of the market serve as a map of the island's agricultural prowess: the forest green pistachios of Bronte; the Crayola-bright lemons and oranges of Paternò; the famous pomodorini of Pachino, fiery orbs of magical tomato intensity.”
Source: Pasta, Pane, Vino: Deep Travels Through Italy's Food Culture
“By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life
“By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.”
“By focusing on accessibility for persons with disabilities, companies do more than just broaden their market—they create products and services that are easier and more accessible for everyone in society.”
“By focusing on love and cultivating an internal security, we can start to take the steps in our lives to create profound change.”
“By focusing on positive, healthy motivations and letting the more negative ones pass, you can purify the source of you imaginative power.”
“By focusing on possibilities, you can see more than a potential light at the end of the tunnel. The light doesn't have to be at the end of the tunnel; it can illuminate an opportunity wherever you are.”
Source: Rewire Your Brain: Think Your Way to a Better Life
“By focusing on such a narrow slice of Nepali life, Ms. Spray and Mr. Velez have ceded any totalizing claim on the truth and instead settled for a perfect incompleteness.”
“By focusing on teaching businesses about the ROI they can achieve by preserving and investing in nature, you're expanding the scope of the impact you can have.”
“By focusing on the community, you can learn more about the whole country.”
“By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the vocal cords into sound of fair quality, but that did not satisfy him. He worked for a while on vibrations picked up from panes of glass in windows and on framed pictures, and he experimented briefly with the diaphragms in speaker systems, intercoms and telephones. He kept on into October without stopping, and finally achieved a device that would give tinny but recognizable sound from any vibrating surface - a wall, a floor, even the speaker's own cheek or forehead.”
“By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.”
“By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.”
Source: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud
“By following "the path of reverie"-a constantly downhill path-consciousness relaxes and wanders-and consequently becomes clouded. So it is never the right time, when one is dreaming, to "do phenomenology."”
“By following the concept of one country, two systems, you dont swallow me up nor I you.”
“By following the intelligent sensations of the body we are led to an even deeper self-knowing.”
Source: The Nia Technique: The High-Powered Energizing Workout that Gives You a New Body and a New Life
“By following this simple path, you become extraordinary, unfathomable, a being of profound cosmic subtlety. You outlive time and space by realizing the subtle truth of the universe.”
Source: Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu
“By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.”
“By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution.”
Source: THE IDLER. BY SAMUEL JOHNSON, L.L.D. TWO VOLUMES IN ONE. WITH ADDITIONAL ESSAYS. To which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings OF THE AUTHOR
“By force you will conquer,
and by force you will fall.”
“By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs - now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life.”
Source: STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California
“By forgetting everything you have learned, that is the moment you start educating.”
“By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.”
“By forsaking joy in pursuit of growth, you forget that growth should make you feel alive.”
Source: The Comfort Zone: Create a Life You Really Love with Less Stress and More Flow
“By forsaking joy in pursuit of growth, you forget that growth should make you feel alive, and that when you reach your goals, you should feel energized, even exhilarated, not exhausted and burned out.”
Source: The Comfort Zone: Create a Life You Really Love with Less Stress and More Flow
“By Fortune's adverse buffets overborne
To solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn,
And not in utter loneliness to live,
Myself at last did to the Devil give!”
Source: Faust
“By fostering a growth mindset, individuals can stay motivated and committed to addressing the root cause of their underachievement—be it emotions, motivations, or knowledge—and taking purposeful action for improvement.”
“By fostering self-regulated learning skills, transformative teaching empowers students to become active participants in their own education, enabling them to set goals, monitor their progress, and adapt their learning strategies to achieve success.”
“By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.”
“By four years of age, the average child in a family receiving public assistance has heard about 13 million words, compared to 45 million for a child from a wealthier family. The disadvantages developed during their first four years are usually still present in high school.”
“By freely choosing to believe God's promises, a person's faith may be more strongly embraced and, therefore, less likely to falter in times of struggle, sadness, or other such difficulties.”
Source: To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story
“By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.”
Source: A Discourse of Free-thinking: Occasion'd by the Rise and Growth of a Sect Call'd Free-thinkers ...
“By freeze-framing the image of our lifestyle, by stopping our mental clock at times and letting time flow, 'psychological' time can replace 'chronological' time and our human condition can be called into question. This opens the door to a new challenge and a new future. ( "Svp "Arrêt sur image" )”
“By friendship you mean the greatest love, the greatest usefulness, the most open communication, the noblest sufferings, the severest truth, the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds which brave men and women are capable.”
“By fulfilling his dharma a man marches along the path of progress until he attains the supreme dharma of all beings, namely, the realization of Truth. (p. 28)”
Source: Self-Knowledge: Atmabodha