B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“by taking risks," she said to Brida,“By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in your search for Love. As long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end.”
Source: Brida
“By taking systematic actions and by focusing on beauty, for sure we can change our society.”
“By taking the key, you have accepted the Artifact of the Lost Portal Quest. Any sentient life who holds this key holds access to the burden of awareness. Your access must be earned.”
Source: Lost Portals: LitRPG Omniverse 1
“By taking the risk, you give yourself the chance to succeed. By allowing yourself this opportunity, regardless of the outcome, you give that thing permission to enter your life. But by giving up and accepting from the very beginning that you can’t do it, it’s the same as trying and failing; you will lose either way.”
Source: Light Beings: Heaven’s Guide to Self-Realization, of the Spirit, in the Physical World
“By taking the time to explore charged memories in therapy we might uncover feelings that have been buried for decades.”
“By taking the time to live life in the slow lane, we quickly experience a deeper, more profound experience of contentment.”
Source: You Can Have What You Want
“By taking the time to permanently clear negative energy from your body you improve every aspect of your life.”
“By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.”
“By taking these three steps you will get closer to the Gods: First, Say the Truth. Second: Don't let you get Angry. Third: Give, even though you have so little to give.”
“By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1974
“By taking up space, standing up for ourselves, and reassessing a future with crystal-clear perspectives, we gain clarity and make room for self-care, well-being, and joy. (“The Infinite Wisdom of Meditation“)”
“By talking about Mars, Elsa hoped she was making Dylan insecure, was making him realize he loved her more than she loved him, because if that were true then Elsa was safe. As long as his side of their love had more ballast to it, she felt in control and like he would not leave. Everyone left Elsa, and so she needed to be sure.”
“By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing.”
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“By tapping into flowers and their elixirs, we have a method at our fingertips that helps us be our happiest, clearest, and most loving selves. With this book I invite you to catalyze your own personal Flowerevolution and create a worldwide ripple effect of positivity—transforming the world from the inside out.”
Source: Flowerevolution: Blooming into Your Full Potential with the Magic of Flowers
“By teaching others you will learn yourself.”
“By teaching our children to stay in line we create well-behaved followers. While this may make parenting a bit easier, it has enormous costs later in life. These same children grow up to be unhappy adults who desperately want to lead their own lives, yet lack the necessary skills to do so.”
Source: Stand Up for Your Life: A Practical Step-by-Step Plan to Build Inner Confidence and Personal Power
“By teaching ourselves to stay connected to our sensuality, we start to install new neurological hardware that becomes a blueprint for the body to experience the richness, soulfulness, and beauty of being alive.”
“By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually impossible before the Patriot Act.”
“By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.”
“By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain.”
Source: The Things They Carried
“By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are.”
Source: The Handmaid’s Tale
“By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are. So I will go on. So I will myself to go on.”
“By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“By temperament and disposition and emotions, I'm a liberal; but in my beliefs about what's best for the country, I'm a centrist.”
“By temperament I am not unduly excitable and certainly not trigger-happy. I think twice before I shoot and very often do not shoot at all. By professional standards I do not waste a lot of film; but by the standards of many of my colleagues I probably miss quite a few of my opportunities. Still, the things I am after are not in a hurry as a rule.”
Source: Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography
“By ten o'clock she thought he might soon be ready to talk. He'd threatened, blustered, even tried to sweet-talk her. Then the bribery had begun. He'd let her live if she let him out immediately. He'd give her three horses, two sheep, and a cow. He'd give her a pouch of coin, three horses, two sheep, not just a cow but a milking cow, and set her up anywhere in England, if she would just leave his castle and not bother him again for the rest of his life. The only offer/threat that had perked her momentary interest was when he'd shouted that he was going to "toop her 'til her bonny legs fell off."
She should be so lucky.”
Source: Kiss of the Highlander
“By tentatively sharing a story rather than attacking, name-calling, and threatening, the worried spouse averted a huge battle, and the couple’s relationship was strengthened at a time when it could easily have been damaged.”
Source: Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
“By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.”
“By that point, I was about 12, 13 years old. I was this young black kid into rock music, which was kind of strange. People would always assume I'd be into like more modern R&B, which is a stereotype, but that was kind of what was expected. And I had all these guitar magazines of all these musicians that didn't look like me. So I assumed Jimmi Hendrix was one of those.”
“By that point, it’ll have been more than year since I met Lulu. Any sane person would say it’s too late. It already felt too late that first day, when I woke up in the hospital. But even so, I’ve kept looking. I’m still looking.”
“By that sin fell the angels.”
“By that time [1966], we did begin to get some protests [against Vietnam War]. But not from liberal intellectuals; they never opposed the war.”
“By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.”
“By that time it was already clear that the next prime minster was going to be Golda Meir, a woman whom I frankly detested - a mutual sentiment, I might add. I knew her as an opinionated, obstinate person, primitive in her outlook, rigid in her attitudes, with a genius for reaching and exploiting the deepest fears and prejudices of the Jewish masses. I was certain that with her as prime minister, all peace efforts would come to a total standstill.”
“By that time this society is going to be completely different for one thing. Your own son or your own son's son is not going to have the needs for money that you feel you have now. The society itself will be less dependent on money and currency to get along.”
“By that which you kill are you bound.”
Source: The Chronicles of Faerie (Book 2): The Summer King
“By that who find the world eager, should not be despaired by it.”
“By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.”
“By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be -- all the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly. According to that theory, the education of laborers, is not only useless, but pernicious, and dangerous. In fact, it is, in some sort, deemed a misfortune that laborers should have heads at all.”
Source: Lincoln on Democracy
“By the 1920’s, the wolves had been all but eliminated from the continental United States, except for a small population in northern Minnesota and Michigan’s upper peninsula. It was a campaign unprecedented in its scope and thoroughness. One species almost completely whipped out another. The impetus for the killing was clear enough, but as Barry Lopez asked in “Of Wolves and Men”, his seminal meditation on the fraught relationship between the two species, why did the pogrom continue, even after the threat to the westerner’s way of life was essentially gone? Why did our ancestors feel they had to rout out every last wolf, and why were hunters still so eager to shoot them in the few places they remained?
There was hate, Lopez decided, but there was something else, too. Something more akin to envy. Here is an animal capable of killing a man, an animal of legendary endurance and spirit, an animal that embodies marvelous integration within its environment. This is exactly what the frustrated modern hunter would like, the noble qualities imagined, a sense of fitting into the world. The hunter wants to be the wolf.”
Source: American Wolf
“By the 1920s if you wanted to work behind a lunch counter you needed to know that 'Noah's boy' was a slice of ham (since Ham was one of Noah’s sons) and that 'burn one' or 'grease spot' designated a hamburger. 'He'll take a chance' or 'clean the kitchen' meant an order of hash, 'Adam and Eve on a raft' was two poached eggs on toast, 'cats' eyes' was tapioca pudding, 'bird seed' was cereal, 'whistleberries' were baked beans, and 'dough well done with cow to cover' was the somewhat labored way of calling for an order of toast and butter. Food that had been waiting too long was said to be 'growing a beard'. Many of these shorthand terms have since entered the mainstream, notably BLT for a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich, 'over easy' and 'sunny side up' in respect of eggs, and 'hold' as in 'hold the mayo'.”
Source: Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
“By the 1970s, pornography had caught up with The Block, where performers were totally in the nude. I wasn't going to do that, and I certainly wasn't about to let my girls do it. After all, I'm religious, and if my mother knew I was performing in the nude, she would have had a heart attack.”
“By the 1970s, the American woman was being called 'liberated' or 'superwoman' while the American man was being called 'baby killer' if he fought in Vietnam, 'traitor' if he protested, or 'apathetic' if he did neither. Even men who came home paraplegics were literally spit on.”
Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
“By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot. Hats had been in competition with hair, and hair had won. Thirty years before that, Brits of all classes and ages wore hats all the time.”
“By the 1990s, longevity will be so improved that 150 years will be no unusual age to reach.”
“By the 2016 American election, it was clear America was ready for change.
By nominating Trump, the Republican Party had rejected the Republican establishment.
By electing Trump, the country rejected the entire Washington establishment—Republican and Democrat alike...”
“By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.”
Source: The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
“By the 20th century, war ceased to be an encounter between two armies. It became an encounter between two societies, because a factory worker producing a gun or a bomb is as deadly as a pilot.”
“By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing all the time when they are little, but then something happens. It's not that we stop singing. I still sang. I just made sure I was alone when I did it. And I made sure I never did it accidentally. That thing we call 'bursting into song.' I believe this happens to most of us. We are still singing, but secretly and all alone.”
“By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever.”