B Quotes
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“By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.”
“By my count, the Deputy Prime Minister has sworn an oath of loyalty and service to Her Majesty no fewer than four times in the last two years, yet he has used his position as a minister of the Crown as a podium from which to rail against our history and our heritage. The minister says that instead of the monarchy he would prefer an entirely Canadian institution, but he fails to recognize that the monarchy is as Canadian as the House of Commons itself.”
“By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.”
“By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.”
“By my early twenties, I was still devoted to heroic woman stories, but the love narratives had started to lose some of their appeal. The release of a new Meg Ryan/Tom Hanks vehicle seemed far less interesting to me than the latest installment of the Alien movie franchise. Had I lost interest in romance? Far from it. In fact, this was at the time in my life when I was very serious about finding a great love. However, I was also struggling to be my own person, to understand my identity, to follow my own dreams and start down my chosen career path. I had plans to travel the world, to attend graduate school. I was coming into—and exercising—my own forms of strength and independence. But I was tired of the one-sided representations of male-identified characters doing this, of feeling that only one version of this kind of empowerment existed. I wanted balance and social justice. I wanted to see more evidence of women on screen doing the same, women making a difference, doing something amazing, and being the heroes of their own lives and stories. Unfortunately, there weren’t very many female-bodied characters who did that who also got to find love. In fact, the more romance a woman enjoyed in a narrative, the less strength or independence of any kind she expressed in the story, especially before the last two decades. (3)”
“By my estimation, dating was 1 percent confidence and 99 percent troubleshooting.”
Source: Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy
“By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.”
Source: The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms
“By my faith,' said Wamba, 'it would seem the Templars love the Jews' inheritance better than they do their company.”
Source: Ivanhoe
“By my love and my hope I beseech you - do not forsake hero in your soul!”
“By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.”
“By my monastic life and vows I am saying no to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials, the judicial murders, the racial injustices, the economic tyrannies, and the whole socioeconomic apparatus which seems geared for nothing but global destruction in spite of all its fair words in favor of peace.”
Source: Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation
“By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man ... Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocracies, have at times thrown this assemblage of sloth, sleep, and littleness into rage like a lion.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.”
“By my reckoning, I only need about 200 more takeout coffee cups to complete my bitterly ironic mosaic of Al Gore.”
“By my reckoning, I'm about 100 kilometers from Pathfinder. Technically it's called “Carl Sagan Memorial Station.” But with all due respect to Carl, I can call it whatever the hell I want. I'm the King of Mars.”
“By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group”
“By my side. Not beneath or above. Now that truly is the way it was meant to be.”
Source: Dante
“By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakspeare
“By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.”
Source: Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life : and Particularly Shewing the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage
“By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract.”
“By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will he that dies this year is quit for the next”
Source: King Henry IV Part 2: Second Series
“By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets.”
“By myself walking, To myself talking.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb. [With Six Poems by Mary Lamb.] A New Edition
“By myself, I'm a hard pill. My wife makes me look real good, because she smoothes my rough edges. That's why I say, "Take your wife everywhere. It's a good thing."”
“By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents”
“By natural law there are two parts to everything; ‘relative’ and ‘real’. By praying to a picture, the 'relative' mail reaches Lord Krishna , and in the ‘real’ it is indeed the worship of the Self within you.”
Source: The Guru and The Disciple
“By natural means, as the Lord always operates for the accomplishment of his purposes, means so simple that the thoughtless and unbelieving do not see the manifestation of his power, he brought the Puritans from the old world to New England, the Dutch to New York, the English Cavaliers to Virginia and the French to New Orleans, a combination of races which, paradoxical as it may appear, was just calculated to give us the composite America who made the United States of America what it is, the greatest nation of the world today.”
“By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound”
Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
“By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.”
Source: St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts
“By nature all people are alike, but by education become different”
“By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.”
Source: Heart of the West
“By nature domineering, she had furthermore been brought up with a strong sense of entitlement. Circumstances had forced her to be tolerant for a while, but it was not a situation she could live with in the long run.”
Source: The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
“By nature, human beings are receivers. Only God can give without expecting anything from us. But we continue to pray, plead and praise Him. It is said that, in the holy scriptures, even God loves to be worshiped and praised daily.”
“By nature, humans are happy souls, but we choose to feel miserable.”
Source: Quantraz
“By nature I am curious about life, and this extends to my business.”
Source: Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way
“By nature I am not tough, believe it or not.”
“By nature I will find hope in everything. Even if it's the most incredibly hopeless situation or circumstance. That's just me... I'll never be able to see things any other way.”
“By nature I'm not a brooder.”
“By nature independent, gay, even exuberant, seductively responsive and given to those spontaneous sallies that sparkle in the conversation of certain daughters of Paris who seem to have inhaled since childhood the pungent breath of the boulevards laden with the nightly laughter of audiences leaving theaters, Madame de Burne's five years of bondage had nonetheless endowed her with a singular timidity which mingled oddly with her youthful mettle, a great fear of saying too much, of going to far, along with a fierce yearning for emancipation and a firm resolve never again to compromise her freedom.”
Source: Alien Hearts
“By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.”
“By nature man without woman can feel no joy. She is his mother, his sister, his loving friend. She is seldom his enemy.”
“By nature, Men are electric and Women are magnetic. Together they combine to complete an electromagnetic circuit.”
“By nature men are uncontrollable and wild, and it should be, but women have the key to control them, if they know how to use it.”
“By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism”
Source: Legend
“By nature of routine, our mind allows us to leverage patterns; repetition permits us to perform remedial tasks without much active thought or input.”
“By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.”
“By nature, that mind is easily fooled by supernatural mysticism. It is extremely gullible. And no matter how much we the civilized human beings advance in the fields of modern sciences, there is always a part of us, that tries to allure us with magical nonsense, because that nonsense has been with us since the birth of humanity.”
Source: Neurons of Jesus: Mind of A Teacher, Spouse & Thinker
“By nature, we are a cabal.”
Source: Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
“By nature we are creatures of hope, always ready to be deceived again, caught by the marvel that might be wrapped in the grubbiest brown paper parcel.”
Source: A Month in the Country