B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“By stepping outside your comfort zone to do something peculiar, you confirm that you can do more than you've done. Move out!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“By sticking to my principles and what I firmly believe in - I always have my own attitude towards everything in life. I wish to create trends rather than follow them. My daily routine at the moment is really just a combination of work and family.”
“By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation.”
“By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.”
Source: The Blacks: A Clown Show
“By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.”
“By strictly observing Botvinnik's rule regarding the thorough analysis of one's own games, with the years I have come to realize that this provides the foundation for the continuous development of chess mastery.”
“By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.”
“By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders capable of enriching the lives of not just her own people, but of all people.”
Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
“By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.”
“By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.”
“By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a gift from God to people who don't deserve it. The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.”
Source: What's So Amazing about Grace?
“By structural violence, I mean the violence committed by configurations of social inequalities that, in the end, has injurious effects on bodies similar to the violence of a stabbing or shooting. This is what the English working men described by Friedrich Engels called 'social murder'. Much of the structural violence is organized along the fault lines of class, race, citizenship, gender, and sexuality. (...) Symbolic violence works through the perceptions of the 'dominating' and the 'dominated' (in Bourdieu's words), while it tends to benefit those with more power. each group understands not only itself but also the other to belong naturally in their positions in the social hierarchy. (...) Structural violence - with its pernicious effects on health - and symbolic violence - with its subtle naturalization of inequalities on the farm, in the clinic, and in the media - form the nexus of violence and suffering through which the phenomenon of migrant labor in North America is produced.”
Source: Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
“By studying Bhagavad-gītā, one can become a soul completely surrendered to the Supreme Lord and engage himself in pure devotional service. As the Lord takes charge, one becomes completely free from all kinds of materialistic endeavors.”
“By studying psychology i want to be a better actor. There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun.”
“By studying the Bible one can at best know about God. There is a vast difference between knowing God and knowing about God. Knowing God comes through direct power encounters and through biblical study. These power encounters are usually of a variety which cannot be found within the context of the dusty moldy pages of God's past tracks.”
“By studying the masters and not their pupils.”
Source: The Legacy of Niels Henrik Abel: The Abel Bicentennial, Oslo, June 3-8, 2002
“By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement. Indeed, not infrequently, such individuals represent pathetic failure as persons.”
Source: Stay Alive All Your Life
“By succumbing to external conditioning and looking outside ourselves for answers, thus denying the power of our imagination and ignoring the only viable path forward into the future (that of internal transformation), we’re bound to just keep pouring gasoline on a world already on fire.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“By such deductions the law of gravitation is rendered probable, that every particle attracts every other particle with a force which varies inversely as the square of the distance. The law thus suggested is assumed to be universally true.”
“By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.”
Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha
“By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers turned the living word into dead law.”
Source: The Telling
“By suffering comes wisdom.”
“By suffering God's will, we learn to do God's will.”
Source: Correction, instruction: or, The rod and the word
“By suffering we are able to give something to God. The gift of pain, of suffering is a big thing and cannot be accomplished in Paradise.”
“By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.”
Source: The Sense of Wonder
“By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will ... now I choose the direction of my thought and the direction of my faculties, my tendencies, my reality.”
“By suicide, yeu can only hurt the people who loves yeu.”
“By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death”
“By suprematism I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art.”
“By surrendering my life to the revolution, I found eternal life”
Source: Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“By surrendering, you create an energy field of receptivity for the solution to appear.”
“By surviving passages of doubt and depression on the vocational journey, I have become clear about at least one thing: self-care is never a selfish act -- it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others. Anytime we can listen to true self and give it the care it requires, we do so not only for ourselves but for the many others whose lives we touch.”
Source: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
“By swallowing evil word unsaid noone has ever yet harmed his stomach.”
“By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.”
“By symbolizing the end of elite privileges (culture was finally made available to the most), the Pompidou was being offered to the masses as a transparent (read: democratic), manipulable (read: empowering), enjoyable (read: ideology- free) and larger- then- life (read: inoffensive) Troy horse meant to defuse masses’ scepticism towards the government, which just ten years before had been contested in the street of Paris. Sounds good, right?”
Source: Baudrillard for Architects
“By synthesizing contradictions you begin to achieve a unity of being and purpose. Unity arises through the equilibration of all opposites into the point of transcendence.”
Source: Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendence
“By synthesizing contradictions, you begin to achieve a unity of being and purpose. Unity arises through the equilibration of all opposites into the point of transcendence. You then become a lightning bolt of power, transcending all contradictions. Your total power becomes greater than the sum of your parts. This is the Great Alchemical Marriage that is spoken of in the ancient texts: the annihilation of the two ingredients at the birth of a third.”
Source: Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendence
“By taking a business-like approach, the student-athletes and their parents will be in control of the outcome and that's how it should be.”
“By taking a keen look at what God
promised Abraham and the results of that
Word, we can adequately define what it
means to be blessed.”
Source: BLESSED BEYOND MEASURE
“By taking a look at your anger it can be transformed into the kind of energy that you need - understanding and compassion.”
“By taking a personal interest in other people’s lives, you are demonstrating selflessness, grace, and respect.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.”
Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals
“By Taking Care of Yourself, You're Taking Care Of Someone Else”
“By taking elements you observe in life, you can develop qualities in your acting life that you don't ordinarily call upon in your personal life.”
Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel
“By taking good care of your posture now, you will enjoy and savor lifelong health benefits and beauty.”
Source: My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
“by taking notice of those feelings and images that seemed to be in my blood and bones rather than in my head, I had found myself able to behave, not less reasonably, but more so. Apparently it was as much a false extreme to try and live by reason alone, leaving the passions out of count, as to ignore reason and put passion in its place as the guiding force of life.”
Source: An Experiment in Leisure
“By taking out a loan, I am committing myself to years of interest repayments, and therefore to years of wage slavery. And the UK has been borrowing like crazy since 1694, when the Bank of England was invented. This means that we are locked into high taxation to pay for 300 years of wars and other costly and generally disastrous state enterprises.”
“By taking responsibility and playing our role in imparting the gift of forgiveness and love to ourselves and to the world, we will start liberating ourselves from all pain and suffering, and gift ourselves with Peace and Spiritual Freedom.”
“By taking responsibility for your life, including your actions, reactions, thoughts, and words, you can create the life you know you deserve. How you live no longer depends on anyone or anything other than yourself.”