B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“By setting our motivation strongly in the morning when our mind is fresh and clear, we are much more likely to remember it during the day and act with that intention”
“By setting such strong, harsh dichotomies God taught Israel that any assimilation to pagan idolatry is intolerable. It was His way of preserving Israel’s spiritual health and posterity. God knew that if these Canaanite children were allowed to live, they would spell the undoing of Israel. The killing of the Canaanite children not only served to prevent assimilation to Canaanite identity but also served as a shattering, tangible illustration of Israel’s being set exclusively apart for God.”
“By setting the passenger seat of my car far back, and opening the glove compartment, I nestle in a very large sheet of thick fiberboard. It's big enough to hold a table easel, my big palette and a water container. Winter is not going to lock me indoors!”
“By setting the right priority and focusing resources and budget on the most critical areas, IT has the opportunity to not only be responsive but ultimately be the strategic business partner.”
Source: Digital It: 100 Q&as
“By setting up a universe which tends to hold everything we do, see, and say in the sway of its cosmos, an archetype is best comparable with a God”
Source: The Essential James Hillman: A Blue Fire
“By setting up Berkshire Hathaway, Warren has done everything very rationally.”
“By setting your intention, you create a focused and purposeful mindset to guide your journey.”
Source: Psychedelic Preparation Workbook: Sixty Days to Engagement
“By shaping our morals we can shape our lives.”
Source: Wait Late: Why waiting is not the right option execution is
“By shaping some august decree,
Which kept her throne unshaken still,
Broad-based upon her people's will,
And compass'd by the inviolate sea.”
“By sharing a kind smile, a kind word, a kind hug, you are lifting up others and thus lifting up the world.”
“By sharing an experience, or creating an experience that we all go through where the character survives - though not easily, I always say that it's victory at a price - does give people hope.”
“By sharing it with others, you help ensure that the tallgrass prairie continues to delight future generations.”
Source: The Tallgrass Prairie: An Introduction
“By sharing it with others, you help ensure that the tallgrass prairie continues to delight future generations. By growing in your knowledge of prairie, you develop a better understanding of the natural world. And by experiencing prairie---over the four seasons, and at various times of day, in all weathers---you develop a heightened sense of awe and wonder that will spill over into every other area of your life. Your adventure is only beginning.”
Source: The Tallgrass Prairie: An Introduction
“By sharing something, I realized that I'm not alone, that there are a lot of people that share with me the same preoccupations, the same ideas, the same ideals, and the same quest for a meaning for this life.”
“By shielding people against the dangers of examination, it teaches them to hold fast to whatever the prescribed rules of conduct may be at a given time in a given society. What people then get used to is not so much the content of the rules, a close examination of which would always lead them into perplexity, as the possession of rules under which to subsume particulars. If somebody appears who, for whatever purposes, wishes to abolish the old values or virtues, he will find that easy enough provided he offers a new code and he will need relatively little force and no persuasion—that is proof that the new values are better than the old—to impose it. The more firmly men hold to the old code, the more eager will they be to assimilate themselves to the new one. Which means that, in practice, the readiest to obey will be those who were the most respectable pillars of society.”
Source: The Life of the Mind
“By shifting the balance away from the individual we open the door for the individual. Because we make it obvious that anyone can do it given the right circumstance.”
“By shifting the perception of a person, product, or place, you will significantly impact their value and how the market interacts with them. Per- ception is closer to reality than ever before, and your ability to positively shift perception directly correlates to how much value you can create in the Age of Ideas.”
Source: The Age of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential
“By showing a picture, you're showing an x-ray of your heart.”
“By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.”
“By showing that you don't have to lose yourself, maybe someone else will feel some sort of comfort.”
“By shrewdly linking procreation to an act likely to make you stupid with excitement, God has seen to it that Life does indeed go on. It's possible, by the way, that this is why God's name comes up so often in the middle of the act; it's a salute to the author: Hey, whoever made this up - thanks.”
“By shutting out the real world we can live peacefully in ours. We know that a world without pain is a world without feeling… But a world without feeling is a world without pain.”
Source: The Minds of Billy Milligan
“By sight and observation and thought, with the help of the camera, and the addition of the date of the year, we can hold fast the history of the world.”
“By signing the Oslo accords in 1993 he took a giant step towards the realization of this vision. It is tragic that he did not live to see it fulfilled.”
“By signing up for acceptance, I also signed up for resistance, even if it was in my ignorance.”
Source: Fat Girls in Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own
“By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own.”
“By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.”
“By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.”
“by simple way to give maximal benefit”
“By simply braking down the task into more manageable pieces much can be accomplished in a year.”
Source: Take Stress from Chaos to Calm
“By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an emerging business model that will enable them to create - and demonstrate - real, sustainable social impact in society.”
“By simply giving your attention to the living stillness of a flower, you become inwardly still yourself.”
Source: Silent Awareness: The Revelation That Changes Everything
“By simply refusing to fund a president's unconstitutional conduct, Congress can stop him dead in his tracks - even after the courts have abdicated their responsibilities to do so.”
“By simply stating the truth, we open conversations about grief, which are really conversations about love. We start to love one another better. We begin to overhaul the falsely redemptive storyline that has us, as a culture and as individuals, insist that there's a happy ending everywhere if only we look hard enough. We stop blaming each other for our pain, and instead, work together to change what can be changed, and withstand what can't be fixed. We get more comfortable with hearing the truth, even when the truth breaks our hearts.”
Source: It's OK That You're Not OK
“By six in the morning, she was baking with Emma. She was allowed to eat the burnt and the broken, and together they invented new muffins and pastries.”
Source: Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
“By six-thirty, the sun was officially on the rise, it was pretty. I suppose, if you liked that sort of thing. Fresh starts, new beginnings, the warming rays of hope.”
Source: Let It Snow
“By sixteen I thought, "Ah, this is all crap, you're all sheep, I'm not going to church, leave me alone." And then at a certain point in my teens I started to go to Catholic churches, by myself. Not because I wanted to be Catholic, but because I wanted to light a candle and say something like a prayer and just sit there. There was something I was missing or trying to reconnect with. But it was a secret at the time. I'd developed this cynical persona and the last thing I wanted to admit was that I was skulking around churches in my spare time.”
“By skepticism . . . we arrive first at suspension of judgment, and second at freedom from disturbance.”
“By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get lower productivity and higher rent and operating costs.”
“By slow, thoughtful watching, you can gain much, as against working up a wild, panicky condition.”
Source: Gadsby: A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter
“By slowing down and focusing on how fortunate you are, you will in turn elevate your level of satisfaction.”
“By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they work better; they live better.”
“By smiling, you automatically feel peace.”
“By so giving up, of course, it renews itself- that is the secret”
Source: Son of a Witch
“By so many measures, our country is stronger and more prosperous than it was when we first got here. And I'm hopeful we'll build on the progress we've made in the years to come.”
“By softening our attitudes, practicing mercy and compassion, we transform our lives by transforming other people's experience of us. Send love before you when you enter a room, and people will subconsciously feel it; they'll be prone to show greater kindness in return. That's how love makes things work better in our lives; it realigns the reactions of people and things around us.”
“By solving other’s problems, while having your own problems, you prove yourself to be courageous. Never let your situation stop you from solving other’s problems.”
“By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight.”
Source: Common Sense in Chess
“By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth, lying, on quilts, on the grass in a summer evening, among the sounds of the night. May God bless my people, my uncle, my aunt, my mother, my good father, oh, remember them kindly in their time of trouble; and in the hour of their taking away.”
Source: A Death in the Family
“By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing - which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring.”