B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.”
Source: The Church Porch, :... [being the Introduction to the Poem Entitled
“By no means shall ye attain righteousness unless ye give (freely) of that which ye love; and whatever ye give, of a truth GOD knoweth it well.”
“By no means, I can't sing any rock and roll.”
“By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I am (in the full force of the term) an anarchist. Listen to me.”
Source: Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology
“By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings
“By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.”
“By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality. The problem is not a purely racial one, with Negroes set against whites. In the end, it is not a struggle between people at all, but a tension between justice and injustice. Nonviolent resistance is not aimed against oppressors but against oppression.”
Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
“By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.”
Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury
“By noon, silence arrives one last time, flowing into every space of her room. And before long, silence swallows sound and color and seconds and equations and entire stanzas of old poetry, leaving new words. The sheets are breathless. The room is bruised.
My mother is still warm.”
“By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything..like..a starry night in the mountains, or even the existence of fate.”
“By not burning their poppy fields to the ground but instead maintaining a security umbrella that international development agencies could safely work under as they improved these ordinary people's lives, we would win their 'hearts and minds' in the classic manifestation of a successful counter-insutgency operation.
[...]
Maybe our Western values world somebe instilled in these people. But in country where the average life expectancy was 42 and with the price of that life coming in contrasting cheap at $10 plus the bonus of martyrdom, or alien values might just as equally not be snapped up.”
Source: Among You: The Extraordinary True Story of a Soldier Broken By War
“By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed with them because, again, I don't care too much what other people think.”
“By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.”
“By not claiming to be first in the world one can rule.”
“By not coming forward, you make yourself a victim forever.”
“By not conveying what needs to be conveyed to maintain some short-term harmony, you can also prevent others from making decisions that are informed and mature. This may cause many problems to remain unsolved or deteriorate, and you may even lose people’s trust and become less well-regarded by others.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“By not eating animals vegans are taking the most direct action possible to help save the Earth's environment and its biosphere.”
“By not employing the correct method, it is not possible to win.”
Source: Gorin no Sho & Dokkodo: Miyamoto Musashi
“By not exhausting your self, you are allowing difficulties to win.”
“By not foretelling the ending to yourself, as a writer, you're able to open up the canvas and say, "I'm going to go here. I'm going to go there." It's just a little bit more freeing than a stand-alone procedural, where you work backwards from the end.”
“By not forgiving, by not letting wrongs go, we aren't getting back at anyone. We are merely punishing ourselves by barricading our own hearts.”
“By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.”
“By not having sex before marriage, you are insisting on your right to take these things seriously, when many around you do not seem to. By reserving a part of you for someone else, you are insisting on your right to keep something sacred.”
Source: A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue
“By not hurting anyone through one's mind, speech and action, all the vows (vrat) are encompassed in this!”
Source: Death: Before, During After...
“By not imposing laws to control the population, we are issuing the nature a license to kill the population.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“By not making your own choices, you give up power to change your life.”
Source: The Reason
“By not paying attention to your body, you are putting it in the same predicament as a neglected child. How can a child be expected to develop normally if the parents pay no attention, if they ignore its cries for help, and remain indifferent to whether their child is happy or unhappy?”
“By not replying to the stupid, you can save so much time in your life!”
“By not sharing our interests, talents and abilities, we limit our possibilities.”
“By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud.”
“By nothing,under no conditions, be ye perturbed.”
“By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum”
“By now, at the end of a sloping alley, we had reached the shores of a vast marsh. Some unknown quality in the sparkling water had stained its whole bed a bright yellow. Green leaves, of such a sour brightness as almost poisoned to behold, floated on the surface of the rush-girdled pools. Weeds like tempting veils of mossy velvet grew beneath in vivid contrast with the soil. Alders and willows hung over the margin. From where we stood a half-submerged path of rough stones, threaded by deep swift channels, crossed to the very centre.
("The Basilisk")”
Source: Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror
“By now both mother and daughter were in a good humor and able to joke, mother sat up in bed and chuckled from time to time; they were temperamentally akin and shared the blessed ability to suppress dark memories.”
Source: The Women at the Pump
“By now even the word socialism has so many meanings and interpretations. The Russians call themselves socialists, the Swedes call themselves. And let's not forget that in Germany there was also a national socialism.”
“By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.”
Source: The Magicians Trilogy
“By now, I can only see with the help of sunlight. Once the sun sets, I am taken down into the valley of shadows.”
Source: The Boneyard: Short fictions of the morbid and macabre: The Boneyard Series: Vol 1
“By now I have come to feel that the fact of being a ‘child’, of being wholly
subservient and dependent, of being seen by older people as a mixture of expensive nuisance, slave and super-pet, does most young people more harm than good”
“By now, I hope you recognize this as one more example of the reductionist paradigm at work, even when it's couched in natural and alternative terms. As we saw in chapter ten, one of the major problems with modern medicine is its reliance on isolated, unnatural chemical pharmaceuticals as the primary tool in the war against disease. But the medical profession isn't the only player in the health-care system that has embraced this element of reductionism. The natural health community has also fallen prey to the ideology that chemicals ripped from their natural context are as good as or better than whole foods. Instead of synthesizing the presumed "active ingredients" from medicinal herbs, as done for prescription drugs, supplement manufacturers seek to extract and bottle the active ingredients from foods known or believed to promote good health and healing. And just like prescription drugs, the active agents function imperfectly, incompletely, and unpredictably when divorced from the whole plant food from which they're derived or synthesized.”
Source: Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition
“By now I was utterly deprogrammed. I walked along naked usually, clothes being not only putrid but unnecessary. My skin had been baked a deep terra-cotta brown and was the constituency of harness leather. The sun no longer penetrated it. I retained my hat.”
Source: Tracks
“By now it is eleven
And time to make a brew,
I shall also have a biscuit,
Oh f**k it, I’ll take two.”
Source: Grumpy & Me: From 9-to-5 to 24-7. The Unofficial Guide to Marriage in Retirement
“By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.”
“By now it was clear that Howl was in a mood to produce green slime any second. Sophie hurriedly put her sewing away. "I'll make some hot buttered toast," she said. "Is that all you can do in the face of tragedy??" Howl asked. "Make toast!”
Source: Wizard's Castle
“by now learning that almost all stories in life end in some type of heartbreak—
exhausted, turning your back:
and in so doing, making you vulnerable
to the combustion that is human interaction.
(Every human being alive and dead is a cautionary tale)”
“By now Morrissey has circled the lot. Her sedan slows at the stop sign fronting the main road. One of her taillights is cracked, a detail that gives me an unkind flicker of amusement. She lifts her phone and scowls at the screen as she types: driving directions, a takeout food order on an app, maybe a text. The phone remains in her raised hand as she pulls out onto the boulevard, where she guns the engine and shoots away, an angry bullet in the sun.”
Source: Culpability
“By now she knew better than to betray desire.”
Source: Wilderness Tips
“By now, she was far from the scorch of these sands. After the ransom deal, she would be safely married in England. To Ashton. And Caine, who had hurt her far more than anything Abdullah had planned for her with that long, curved dagger, deserved no better than this torment of knowing it.”
“By now the crusaders had christened the most powerful French catapult 'Mal Voisine', or 'Bad Neighbour', while nicknaming the Muslim stone-thrower that targeted it for conter-bombardment 'Mal Cousine', or 'Bad Relation'.”
“By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'.”
“By now, they rank people by income level or wages roughly the same: The bottom seventy per cent or so are virtually disenfranchised; they have almost no influence on policy, and as you move up the scale you get more influence. At the very top, you basically run the show.”