B Quotes
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“By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all.”
“By the end of the weekend I want to stab him with his dessert fork, which is always lodged in a wedge of chocolate cake or his mouth.”
Source: Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale
“By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make a difference in someone's life.”
“By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.”
“By the end of this decade we will live under the first One World Government that has ever existed in the society of nations ... a government with absolute authority to decide the basic issues of human survival. One world government is inevitable.”
“By the end of this decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out of the Pacific, because the United States is and always will be a Pacific power.”
“By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our clothing, providing full-immersion visual virtual reality.”
Source: The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
“By the end of Wagner’s life all this had changed. He had lifted the status of
the composer to that of a seer, raised the standard of musicianship, brought into
being a whole new school of singing and conducting, built the revolutionary
Bayreuth opera house, and created in Germany an operatic tradition that was the
admiration of the world. Furthermore the mythology which he welded together
and the ideology which he promulgated played a key role in the launching of a
new German nationalism.”
“By the end of your incredibly arduous, disappointing, stressful journey, you will be your true self, in a place where you belong, with friends who truly understand you and bring all sorts of opportunities your way.”
Source: Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
“By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.”
“By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people.”
“By the exhibition of powerful eloquence, the conscience may be roused, & the passions moved. But nothing less than the operations of an Almighty agent, sanctioning, directing,& applying the means used, can reach the heart, can impress the spirit, can change the will, can influence the life, can save the man. -- William Bengo Collyer”
Source: Lectures on scripture facts and prophecy Volume 1
“By the experience of active love. Strive to love your neighbour actively and indefatigably. In as far as you advance in love you will grow surer of the reality of God and of the immortality of your soul. If you attain to perfect self-forgetfulness in the love of your neighbour, then you will believe without doubt, and no doubt can possibly enter your soul. This has been tried. This is certain.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)
“By the external appearance of your knowledge, you have attained (high) ranks and reverence with the people! So seek with Allah higher ranks and closeness by virtue of your hidden good deeds. And know that these two ranks, one cancels out the other.”
“By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].”
“By the favour of the heavens”
“By the first mouthful I knew that I was going to get drunk that night. The drink tasted too good not to.”
Source: Mule
“By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.”
“By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.”
Source: Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs
“By the former of these (canon law), the most refined, sublime, extensive, and astonishing constitution of policy that ever was conceived by the mind of man was framed by the Romish clergy for the aggrandizement of their own order.”
Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections
“By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.”
“By the fourth millennium BC, the Fertile Crescent was not the only region of coalesced communities; organized agricultural, military, religious, and administrative activity had also begun to appear in the Indus Valley, in what is now Pakistan. Even before written records, there is evidence of trade between these two regions. Archaeologists have discovered lamps and cups in Mesopotamia dating from the late fourth millennium BC and made from conch shells found only in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Oman.”
Source: A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
“By the fourth or fifth record there was not a lot of time to sit around. We [The Replacements] stopped rehearsing. We stopped getting together and rehearsing. We'd perform, and that would take it all out of us. Then we'd be done touring and we'd be sick of each other. We'd never call each other up and hang out.”
“By the fridge, Lily holds a sleepy toddler in a panda onesie, and she whispers quietly with Lo. He has this look like he’s half-listening but really he’s thinking about how adorable his wife fucking is, especially with his daughter right there. I know how this’ll go so I don’t wait around to watch. He’ll tease her by leaning in for a kiss, only to stick his tongue in Lily’s ear. She’ll whisper-hiss his name and then slug his shoulder. He’ll mock wince. They’ll look infatuated with each other, remembering how many years they’ve spent. How far their lives have come. How much love they’ve shared. Their romance has never changed. We all thank the fucking world for that because there is no Lily without Lo. There is no Lo without Lily”
“By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.”
“by the general love of scandal and detraction in Dublin, one might reasonably imagine they were all to feed themselves through the holes which they had made in the characters of others.”
Source: Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington
“By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.”
Source: The Works of Plato: The Apology of Socrates, Crito, Phaedo, Gorgias, Protagoras, Phaedrus, Theaetetus, Euthyphron, and Lysis
“By the grace of AEC, BNL, God, Green and Hayworth (alphabetical order), we should see neutrinos.”
“By the grace of God alone, I was able to still focus, when it was time for me to do my job, and I think I've done it pretty good, and I know I can buckle down even more.”
“By the grace of God and with His help, I shall one day be a Liszt in technique and a Mozart in composition”
“By the grace of God I am what I am”
“By the grace of God I want to impart the Word, and bring you into a place where you will dare to act upon the plan of the Word, to so breathe life by the power of the Word that it is impossible for you to go on under any circumstances without his provision. The most difficult things that come to us are to our advantage from God's side. When we come to the place of impossibilities, it is the grandest place for us to see the possibilities of God.”
Source: Greater Works: Experiencing God’s Power
“By the grace of God, I will finish what I have started.”
“By the Grace of God, we are highly favoured. His Grace is bigger than what our minds, can ever comprehend.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“By the grace of God, we are highly favoured. His grace is greater than our minds can ever comprehend.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we'll lead them to damnation and not salvation.”
“By the grace of God you are what you are; glory in your selfhood, accept yourself and go on from there.”
“By the Grace of God, I am cured of the disease of egotism, and Death no longer terrifies me.”
“By the grace of God, I'll be that man.”
“By the grace of God, we won the Cold War.”
“By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“By the grace of the Lady, whose face mirrors my own, may I ever remember I am made in her image, blessed and beautiful.”
Source: The Body Sacred
“By the grace of the spiritual master the cloud of the mercy of the Personality of Godhead is brought in, and then only, when the rains of Krishna consciousness fall, can the fire of material existence be extinguished.”
“By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By each spot the most unholy, by each nook most melancholy, there the traveller meets, aghast, sheeted memories of the Past. Shrouded forms that start and sigh, as they pass the wanderer by. White-robed forms of friends long given; In agony, to the Earth - and Heaven.”
Source: The best known works of Edgar Allan Poe: poems, tales, essays, criticisms
“By the hairy balls of Jesus”
Source: Wolf Hall
“By the help of God and with His precious assistance, I say that Algebra is a scientific art. The objects with which it deals are absolute numbers and measurable quantities which, though themselves unknown, are related to "things" which are known, whereby the determination of the unknown quantities is possible.”
“By the help of microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible world discovered to the understanding.”
Source: Micrographia: Or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
“By the help of the water of new birth, the stain of former years had been washed away, and a light from above, serene and pure, had been infused into my reconciled heart, — after that, by the agency of the Spirit breathed from heaven, a second birth had restored me to a new man.”
“By the immediate preservation of eggs for home consumption through the use of water glass or lime water, larger supplies of fresh eggs may be made available for marketing later in the season, when production is less and prices higher.”
“By the inquiry 'Who am I?'.
The thought 'who am I?' will destroy all other thoughts,
and like the stick used for stirring the burning pyre, it will itself in the end get destroyed. Then, there will arise Self-realization.”
Source: The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi