Best James Bryce Quotes: The most famous quotes by James Bryce
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. — James Bryce
Best James D. Bryden Quotes: The most famous quotes by James D. Bryden
Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all of life’s hazards, save one — neglect. — James D. Bryden
Best Bill Bryson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Bill Bryson
He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor. — Bill Bryson
Best Lyman Bryson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Lyman Bryson
The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely. — Lyman Bryson
Best Martin Buber Quotes: The most famous quotes by Martin Buber
Play is the exultation of the possible. — Martin Buber
Best Marty Bucella Quotes: The most famous quotes by Marty Bucella
When it comes to staying young, a mind lift beats a face lift any day. — Marty Bucella
Best John Buchan Quotes: The most famous quotes by John Buchan
We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. — John Buchan
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest. — John Buchan
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. — John Buchan
Best Edna Buchanan Quotes: The most famous quotes by Edna Buchanan
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway. — Edna Buchanan
Best Art Buchwald Quotes: The most famous quotes by Art Buchwald
The best things in life aren’t things. — Art Buchwald
Just when you think there’s nothing to write about, Nixon says, ‘I am not a crook.’ Jimmy Carter says, ‘I have lusted after women in my heart.’ President Reagan says, ‘I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope.’ — Art Buchwald
I worship the quicksand he walks in. — Art Buchwald
You can’t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you’re doing is recording it. — Art Buchwald
Best Pearl Buck Quotes: The most famous quotes by Pearl Buck
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same. — Pearl Buck
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness. — Pearl Buck
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends. — Pearl Buck
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up. — Pearl Buck
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream – whatever that dream might be. — Pearl Buck
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them. — Pearl Buck
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. — Pearl Buck
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. — Pearl Buck
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. — Pearl Buck
Best Pearl Sydenstricker Buck Quotes: The most famous quotes by Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. — Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. — Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
All things are possible until they are proved impossible-even the impossible may only be so, as of now. — Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. — Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. — Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream-whatever that dream might be. — Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. — Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Hunger makes thief of any man. — Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. — Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. — Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Best A. G. Buckham Quotes: The most famous quotes by A. G. Buckham
Monotony is the awful reward of the careful. — A. G. Buckham
Best Henry Thomas Buckle Quotes: The most famous quotes by Henry Thomas Buckle
If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine if you can make him believe that those who reject that doctrine are doomed to eternal perdition if you then give that man power, and by means of his ignorance blind him to the ulterior consequences of his own act,-he will infallibly persecute those who deny his doctrine. — Henry Thomas Buckle
Best Mary Lorraine Buckley Quotes: The most famous quotes by Mary Lorraine Buckley
Husbands are awkward things to deal with even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. — Mary Lorraine Buckley
Best Buddha Quotes: The most famous quotes by Buddha
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance. — Buddha
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. — Buddha
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. — Buddha
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. — Buddha
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. — Buddha
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. — Buddha
He is able who thinks he is able. — Buddha
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. — Buddha
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. — Buddha
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. — Buddha
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. — Buddha
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. — Buddha
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. you yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. — Buddha
Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care. — Buddha
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. — Buddha
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed. — Buddha
Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison. — Buddha
Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings — that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide. — Buddha
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. — Buddha
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes he who loves no one has no woes. — Buddha
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. — Buddha
On life’s journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him. — Buddha
Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train. — Buddha
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned. — Buddha
To keep the body in good health is a duty. . . otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. — Buddha
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. — Buddha
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. — Buddha
We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think. — Buddha
You should respect each other and refrain from disputes you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together. — Buddha
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death. — Buddha
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. — Buddha
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten. — Buddha
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes. — Buddha
Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly nothing in this world can be long enjoyed. — Buddha
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. — Buddha
On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions it is the best refreshment on the journey and it is the greatest property. — Buddha
Everything changes, nothing remains without change. — Buddha
If a man’s mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure. — Buddha
If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way. — Buddha
Best Eustace Budgell Quotes: The most famous quotes by Eustace Budgell
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. — Eustace Budgell
Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves. — Eustace Budgell
Best Carl W. Buechner Quotes: The most famous quotes by Carl W. Buechner
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. — Carl W. Buechner
Best Frederick Buechner Quotes: The most famous quotes by Frederick Buechner
If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child. — Frederick Buechner
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints. — Frederick Buechner
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage. — Frederick Buechner
It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle. — Frederick Buechner
The grace of God means something like Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn’t have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It’s for you I created the universe. I love you. There’s only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you’ll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too. — Frederick Buechner
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality–not as we expect it to be but as it is–is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love. — Frederick Buechner
Best Jimmy Buffett Quotes: The most famous quotes by Jimmy Buffett
We are the people our parents warned us about. — Jimmy Buffett
If the Phone Doesn’t Ring, It’s Me — Jimmy Buffett
If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane. — Jimmy Buffett
Best Warren Buffett Quotes: The most famous quotes by Warren Buffett
It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming naked. — Warren Buffett
I’ll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It’s addictive. And there’s a fantastic brand loyalty. — Warren Buffett
The only time to buy these is on a day with no ‘y’ in it. — Warren Buffett
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. — Warren Buffett
Best Comte de Buffon Quotes: The most famous quotes by Comte de Buffon
Never think that God’s delays are God’s denials. Hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius. — Comte de Buffon
Best George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon Quotes: The most famous quotes by George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Never think that God’s delays are God’s denials. Hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius. — George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. — George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Best Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes: The most famous quotes by Lois McMaster Bujold
Any community’s arm of force – military, police, security – needs people in it who can do neccesary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity. — Lois McMaster Bujold
Experience suggests it doesn’t matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive. — Lois McMaster Bujold
Our children change uswhether they live or not. — Lois McMaster Bujold
But pain… seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain — Lois McMaster Bujold
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation. — Lois McMaster Bujold
My home is not a place, it is people. — Lois McMaster Bujold
Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We’re not giving up. We’re waiting for a better opportunity to win. — Lois McMaster Bujold
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. — Lois McMaster Bujold
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards. — Lois McMaster Bujold
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they’ll be called on to do before the next chance. — Lois McMaster Bujold
It’s important that someone celebrate our existence… People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture. — Lois McMaster Bujold
I don’t confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow isthe higher achievement. — Lois McMaster Bujold
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old — Lois McMaster Bujold
It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart’s hope. It was what I wanted to be. — Lois McMaster Bujold
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can’t trade for your heart’s desire is your heart. — Lois McMaster Bujold
I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chosethough not always what I pleased. — Lois McMaster Bujold
If you want to catch something, running after it isn’t always the best way. — Lois McMaster Bujold
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it. — Lois McMaster Bujold
You try to give away what you want yourself. — Lois McMaster Bujold
If you can’t do what you want, do what you can. — Lois McMaster Bujold
Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you’ll be so close as to be living inside each other’s skins. — Lois McMaster Bujold
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It’s peace that’s wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with. — Lois McMaster Bujold
A hundred objective measurements didn’t sum the worth of a garden only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something. — Lois McMaster Bujold
Adversity does teach who your real friends are. — Lois McMaster Bujold
If you’re trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it’s a lot easier to hit your targets if you don’t yell going through the door. — Lois McMaster Bujold
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind. — Lois McMaster Bujold
Adulthood isn’t an award they’ll give you for being a good child. You can waste… years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just… take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I’m sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that’s hard. — Lois McMaster Bujold
An honor is not diminished for being shared. — Lois McMaster Bujold
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack. — Lois McMaster Bujold
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. — Lois McMaster Bujold
If the truth doesn’t save us, what does that say about us — Lois McMaster Bujold
The dead cannot cry out for justice it is a duty of the living to do so for them. — Lois McMaster Bujold
Never… ever suggest they don’t have to pay you. What they pay for, they’ll value. What they get for free, they’ll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear. — Lois McMaster Bujold
A good friend of my son’s is a son to me. — Lois McMaster Bujold
You couldn’t be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you’d been abused into affecting public humility. — Lois McMaster Bujold
If power was an illusion, wasn’t weakness necessarily one also — Lois McMaster Bujold
You have to be careful who you let define your good. — Lois McMaster Bujold
When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all. — Lois McMaster Bujold
If you make it plain you like people, it’s hard for them to resist liking you back. — Lois McMaster Bujold
You don’t pay back your parents. You can’t. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It’s a sort of entailment. Or if you don’t have children of the body, it’s left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one. — Lois McMaster Bujold
I take it as a man’s duty to restrain himself. — Lois McMaster Bujold
Some men just aren’t cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son. — Lois McMaster Bujold
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else. — Lois McMaster Bujold
What you are is a question only you can answer. — Lois McMaster Bujold
Best Charles Bukowski Quotes: The most famous quotes by Charles Bukowski
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. — Charles Bukowski
I was no petty thief, I wanted the world or nothing. — Charles Bukowski
Best Bill Bulko Quotes: The most famous quotes by Bill Bulko
Artificial Intelligence the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies. — Bill Bulko
Best Sitting Bull Quotes: The most famous quotes by Sitting Bull
What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world the sun rose and set on their land they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today Who slew them Where are our lands Who owns them….What law have I broken Is it wrong for me to love my own Is it wicked for me because my skin is red Because I am a Sioux because I was born where my father lived because I would die for my people and my country — Sitting Bull
Best Rudolf Karl Bultmann Quotes: The most famous quotes by Rudolf Karl Bultmann
There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting. — Rudolf Karl Bultmann
Best E. R. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes: The most famous quotes by E. R. Bulwer-Lytton
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best. — E. R. Bulwer-Lytton
‘It is destiny’ – phrase of the weak human heart ‘It is destiny’ – dark apology for every error The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. — E. R. Bulwer-Lytton
Best Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes: The most famous quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton
It was a dark and stormy night the rain fell in torrents–except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Best Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Quotes: The most famous quotes by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Talent does what it can genius does what it must. — Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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