B Quotes
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“By God’s grace and mighty power, we can do great deeds.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“By God’s grace, I have the wisdom to reject my limitations, the discipline to act beyond them, and the humility to know it could all end in an instant.”
“By god the Buddhist means that from which the universe was born, the unborn of the Buddhist scriptures, and by soul that factor in the thing called man which moves towards enlightenment. Why need more be said of it, at any rate those who are not content with scholarship, but strive to attain that same enlightenment?”
Source: An Invitation to the Buddhist Way of Life for Western Readers
“By God, the point of the thing is not in this property, which can be confiscated, but in that which no one can steal and carry off! ... Forget this noisy world and all its seductive fancies; let it forget you, too. There is no peace in it. You see: everything in it is either an enemy, a tempter, or a traitor.”
Source: Dead Souls
“By God ye shall be called to account for your doings!”
“By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will - what matters it?”
Source: The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris
“By God's design, I believe our hearts and minds are shaped by Story. It's how we learn. It's how we make sense of the world. Characters, situations, moral consequences are all around us.”
“By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things.”
“By god, DH Lawrence was right when he said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?”
“By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.”
Source: The First Part of King Henry IV
“By God, I could make myself bring her that economically halved grapefruit, that sugarless breakfast.”
Source: Lolita
“By God, I shall spend the rest of my life getting my heart back, healing and forgetting every scar you put upon me when I was a child. The first move I ever made, after the cradle, was to crawl for the door, and every move I have made since has been an effort to escape.”
Source: O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life
“By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!”
“By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.”
“By God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own modesty.”
“By God, we will make the fire eat up half of Isreal if it tries to do anything against Iraq.”
“By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.”
“By God’s design, he has wired his children for spiritual reproduction. He has woven into the fabric of every single Christian’s DNA a desire and ability to reproduce.”
Source: Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.
“By going "ah" and "hah" they were able to lift the unrelenting pain of their dark, bestial days into something more recreational. It is only through the godly gift of humor that man endures the horror. What other faculty allows you to turn pain into triumph? Tears of sadness into tears of laughing too hard?”
Source: Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bible!
“By going along with feelings, you unify your emotional, mental and bodily states. When you try to fight or deny them, you divorce yourself from the reality of your being.”
Source: The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know
“By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest.”
“By going back to your own center you can always find the pure idea of right for every relationship.”
Source: The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ
“By going from the bottom-up again, we see where successes work, and you can also see where the status quo can be the biggest obstacle or roadblock to success. The kind of entrepreneurs in whom we need to invest are the kind who are willing to fight that status quo, bureaucracy, complacency, and corruption.”
“By going into third world countries and serving, by actually feeding and helping people, I've been led to focus a little more on how people here try to be happy by ignoring other people who are unhappy.”
“By going into your mind, those coordinates no longer exist in the quantum event, so of course, it changes course. BUT if you put the coordinates back in such a way that you don't remember observing them, then it goes back to being as if they were never taken to begin with.”
Source: Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
“By going on the defensive. [...] libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should be policed for propriety, and that those who violate standards set by the PC set are somehow defective on those grounds alone and deserve to be purged from "polite" company.”
“By going out of your mind, you come to your senses”
Source: The essence of Alan Watts
“By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.”
Source: Earl Nightingale's
“By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.”
“By going to places where I do not belong, I experience the art of living - orientation through disorientation. All the deserts of the world lie within us, after all.”
Source: My Life at the Limit
“By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.”
“By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.”
“By Goodbye, we truly mean:
Let us be able to say hello again.”
Source: Call Us What We Carry
“By Googling myself, I'm not going to find anything I like.”
“By gor’, that’s a bloody enormous cat.”
“It’s a lion,” said Granny Weatherwax, looking at the stuffed head over the fireplace.
“Must’ve hit the wall at a hell of a speed, whatever it was,” said Nanny Ogg
“Someone killed it,” said Granny Weatherwax, surveying the room.
“Should think so,” said Nanny, “If I’d seen something like that eatin’ its way through the wall I’d of hit it myself”
Source: Witches Abroad
“By government giveaway programs, individuals are often hurt far more than they are helped. The recipients of these programs become dependent on the government and their dignity is destroyed. Is it compassionate to enslave more and more people by making them a part of the government dependency cycle? I think compassion should be measured by how many people no longer need it. Helping people to become self-sufficient is much more compassionate than drugging them with the narcotic of welfare.”
“By Grace Thou fixed Thy blood on me to sculpture me into a Masterpiece
,
Rome not fallen Thy Centerpiece: For I am David Thy Beloved,
Holding the Gates of Jerusalem from the Pits of Hell.”
Source: Journeys Beyond Earth
“by grace ye are saved, not of works,' but by the will of God through Jesus Christ . . . If we please Him in this present world, we shall receive also the future world, according as He has promised to us that He will raise us again from the dead, and that if we live worthily of Him, 'we shall also reign together with Him,' provided only we believe . . .”
“By grasping control over reality it's possible to mould life to suit your wishes.”
Source: Life Is A Circus
“By greeting students at the door with a warm smile, friendly comment, or personalised encouragement, teachers create an inviting atmosphere that fosters a sense of belonging and enthusiasm for learning.”
Source: Mastering the Moment: 10 Keys to Classroom Victory
“By growing a spiritual practice, we are given all that we need.”
“By growing entire waves of reminiscence,
I, a fellow traveler of the same period
will keep waiting for the
melody of your song
right at the same river … unbrokenly …”
Source: Simalko Geet
“By growing up in Alabama, I had a melting pot of the whole pie: R&B, gospel, country.”
“By Gryffindor, the bravest were Prized far beyond the rest; For Ravenclaw, the cleverest Would always be the best; For Hufflepuff, hard workers were Most worthy of admission; And power-hungry Slytherin Loved those of great ambition.”
“By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!”
Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen
“By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up, working up, yea, bursting up-often through oppression, unjust discrimination and prejudice-but through them all we are coming up, and with proper habits, intelligence, and property, there is no power on earth than can permanently stay our progress.”
Source: An Autobiography - The Story of My Life and Work
“By habitus, I mean dispositions that inhere and mold the deepest, subtlest, intricate structures of personhood, are constituted and emergent in the most elusive folds and lineaments of consciousness, and are articulated in lastingly resilient, enduring textual tapestries of experience, orientations, desires. The range of habitus is deep and broad: habitus forms the long arc of evolutionary developments and arrangements of the body in action and at rest, posture, gait, stance, and gesture; it is the silent teacher of the phonemic alphabet, determining subtle distinctions of timbre and tone, accents and intonations in voice articulations; it is the subcutaneous, ingrained dynamic inhering in daily competencies, executed flawlessly and yet seemingly unconsciously, such as balancing huge loads the size of a person’s body weight on the head as Kikuyu women often do, or walking fearlessly on narrow glacial paths through plunging cliffs as the Sherpas do, or weaving in and out of traffic while engaged in deep conversations on a cell phone as Californians do. Habitus describes the imbrication of structure and culture in desire. It is what defines subtle distinctions of taste, those almost ineffable differences of sweetness, succulence, spiciness, and bitterness in food and drink; the raging fetishes and unbidden cravings that shadow sexuality; the fickle difference between scents that intoxicate or trigger upheavals of wretching. Habitus, then, is “human nature” understood as the deep penetration of sociality with biology in such a manner that it is the motor of self, of choice, of vocation.”
Source: Groundwork for the Practice of the Good Life: Politics and Ethics at the Intersection of North Atlantic and African Philosophy
“By handling each sentimental item and deciding what to discard, you process your past. If you just stow these things away in a drawer or cardboard box, before you realise it, your past will become a weight that holds you back and keeps you from living in the here and now.”
“By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion, or a mood, but an optimal state of being. Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.”
Source: The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill
“By happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same!”
Source: The Excursion,: Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem