B Quotes
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“By nature, we are slightly selfies.”
“By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.”
Source: Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims
“By nature, we want to be liked. We want to be accepted. But, most of the time, we allow our worth to be decided by the people on the sidelines. By people that see snapshots of our life but have no clue what the whole picture looks like.”
“By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense
“By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of fraud. Nor is this natural right among the first which is taken into the hands of regular government after it is instituted. It was long retained by our ancestors. It was a part of their common law, laid down in their books, recognized by all the authorities, and regulated as to circumstances of practice.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Published by Order of Congress from the Original Manuscripts Deposited in the Department of State
“By nature's law, man is at peace with man till some aggression is
committed, which, by the same law, authorizes one to destroy another as
his enemy.”
Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
“By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across - each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip - is a coffee bean that will be crushed, ground up, mixed with a touch of cardamom, sometimes a tiny pinch of salt, boiled thrice with sugar, and served as a piping-hot tale.”
“By nature, an auction is kind of a wholesale beast anyway. You're buying second hand goods, even with the historical, antique or aesthetic value. You look to get the wholesale price and you hope for retail spikes periodically when you get two or three people in the audience that want the same thing.”
“By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.”
“By nature, human beings search for ways to make sense and meaning out of their lives and their world. One way that we make meaning is through the telling of our stories. Stories connect us, teach us, and warn us never to forget.”
“By nature, I am a low-key person and like being behind the camera.”
“By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.”
Source: Cuts: Texts 1959-2004
“By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.”
“By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.”
“By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.”
“By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition”
“By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had.”
“By nature, I'm a little distractible. I get very overwhelmed by the world.”
“By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.”
“By nature, I'm like a 90-year-old woman, so the whole internet and Twitter and Facebook, and all of that, I'm very new to. But, I am quite shocked at how much fun it is to be able to reach out to people, on a daily basis, and keep content out there, and how much it actually really does help promote things, in such a different way.”
“By nature, Im an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.”
“By nature, it's impossible to describe enlightenment! How do you plan on sharing your enlightenment? Hahaha, that's impossible. Wake up! That'll be the end of the world if you ever succeed!”
“By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.”
Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean
“By nature, men love newfangledness.”
“By nature, most people are controlled by their emotions. They feel sad, so they look sad.”
“By nature, we are a plant-based intelligence - not just our exhale, which plants inhale, but they are my food chain. They are my medicine. I cannot live without plants. They are part of my life support. And this is why plant species need to be preserved.”
“By nature, worship is not some performance we do, but a presence we experience.”
“By nature, you're aggressive, if you're a fighter, so you deal with things in an aggressive way.”
“By nature, your soul is soft, gentle, loving and kind. It is forgiving, peaceful, and humble. Confident and comforting in times of despair, your soul is strong, focused, and determined in the mission called life.”
“By navigating between excess and deficiency in our desires, we can find the means to discover the ideals of our fulfillment. Patience is a steady guide
and reassures us that we can traverse our emotional landscapes without getting lost in them, offering a comforting presence in the often-turbulent journey of love and emotions. (“Crépuscule du désir “)”
“By necessity there are other characteristics that are not accounted for, that are not measured, and that remain hidden and occulted. Anything that reveals itself does not reveal itself in total. This remainder, perhaps, is the "Planet". In a literal sense the Planet moves beyond the subjective World, but it also recedes behind the objective Earth. The Planet is a planet, it is one planet among other planets, moving the scale of things out from the terrestrial into the cosmological framework. Whether the Planet is yet another subjective, idealist construct or whether it can have objectivity and can be accounted for as such, is an irresolvable dilemma. What's important in the concept of the Planet is that it remains a negative conceit, simply that which remains "after" the human. The Planet can thus be described as impersonal and anonymous.”
Source: Starry Speculative Corpse
“By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.”
“By needlessly provoking him [Vladimir Putin] and humiliating him, we empower far worse possibilities in Russia.”
“By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any atomic war, and we are doing it with all the bland complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors.”
“By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman, for I do care.”
Source: In Times Like These
“By night an atheist half-believes in God.”
“By night, beloved, tie your heart to mine
and let them both in dreams defeat the darkness”
Source: 100 Love Sonnets
“by night only crazy things
like the full moon and the whippoorwill
and us, are busy.”
Source: Selected Writings of Charles Olson
“By night the Glass
Of Galileo ... observes
Imagin'd Land and Regions in the Moon.”
Source: Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books
“By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness”
“By no amount of agile exercising of a wistful imagination could my mother have been called lenient. Generous she was; indulgent never. Kind, yes, permissive, never. In her world, people she accepted paddled their own canoes, pulled their own weight, put their own shoulders to their own plows and pushed like hell.”
“By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us to get a determinate picture of the existing world. We must eliminate some of the conflicting possibilities, and this can be brought about only by experiment and observation.”
“By no longer operating out of a place of fear. So if you see me on a carpet with my arms and legs out glistening, or my midriff exposed, it's a reminder to myself and the world that I know I'm beautiful.”
“By no longer relying on approval from others for (false) reassurance or acceptance, you access a Divine channel of freedom.”
“By no means because I am a World Champion will I ever stop learning and that’s the biggest thing that’s difficult for someone to see.”
“By no means could I play at the level of these kids who play in the NHL now but as 50-year-olds go, I feel really good and I feel blessed that I'm still healthy.”
“By no means do I consider myself this great sparkling personality.”
“By no means do I think that playing games online is wrong or rude. However, constantly sending requests is an act of bad manners as well as being very annoying to the one receiving them.”
Source: Oops! Did I Really Post That
“By no means do I want to be a piece of meat for the rest of my career. It's funny when you get asked to do a talk show, and then they follow it up with requesting you take your shirt off.”