I would say that I've been lucky. Being blessed and not really ever giving up.
Babyface
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Lauren Bacall
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Richard David Bach
Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is
reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
Richard David Bach
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in
each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
Richard David Bach
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Francis Bacon
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Francis Bacon
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainty.
Francis Bacon
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.
Francis Bacon
If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to
feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave.
Kevin Bacon
She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.
Arthur Baer
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
Joan Baez
By the structure of the world we often want, at the sudden occurrence of a grave tempest,
to change the helmsman - to replace the pilot of the calm by the pilot of the storm.
Walter Bagehot
Every banker knows that if he has to prove that he is worthy of credit, however good may be his arguments, in fact his credit is gone.
Walter Bagehot
The worst families are those in which the members never really speak their minds to one another; they
maintain an atmosphere of unreality, and everyone always lives in an atmosphere of suppressed ill-feeling.
Walter Bagehot
Ray Stannard Baker - See
David Grayson
Tammy Faye Bakker - See
Tammy Faye Messner
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is
because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James Baldwin
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
James Baldwin
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Baldwin
Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their employees there would have been no unions.
Stanley Baldwin
War would end if the dead could return.
Stanley Baldwin
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi - See
Rumi
We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.
Steve Ballmer
What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question Can we trust Microsoft?
Steve Ballmer
Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in
some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.
Honoré de Balzac
Love is the poetry of the senses.
Honoré de Balzac
No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
Honoré de Balzac
There is no such thing as great talent without great will-power.
Honoré de Balzac
Bambino - See
Babe Ruth
Codeine...bourbon.
Tallulah Bankhead
First person to fall asleep is a shit!
Party at her place.
Tallulah Bankhead
Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
Tallulah Bankhead
I'll come up and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me.
Tallulah Bankhead
Bapu - See
Mahatma Gandhi
When you apply the word power to a man, it means strong and bold - very positive
attributes. When you use it to describe a woman, it suggests bitchy, insensitive, hard.
Jill Barad
But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth,
for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
For man's greatest crime is to have been born.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Love that is not madness is not love.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Brigitte Bardot
For workaholics, all the eggs of self-esteem are in the basket of work.
Judith M. Bardwick
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Daniel Barenboim
You grew old first not in your own eyes, but in other people's eyes; then, slowly, you agreed with their opinion of you.
Julian Barnes
You can't permit a honeymoon of small changes over a year or two. A long series of small changes just prolongs the pain.
Percy Barnevik
A human soul, that God has created and Christ died for,
is not to be trifled with. It may
tenant the body of a Chinaman, a Turk, an Arab or a Hottentot - it is still an immortal spirit.
P. T. Barnum
How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden?
P. T. Barnum
There's a sucker born every minute.
P. T. Barnum
Beauty comes in all sizes - not just size 5.
Roseanne Barr
Every man who is high up loves to feel that he has done it himself; and the wife
smiles, and let's it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.
J. M. Barrie
I can't sleep.
J. M. Barrie
If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
J. M. Barrie
You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a
thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
J. M. Barrie
I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.
Dave Barry
When you think about it, giving up your real
personality is a small price
to pay for the richness of living happily ever after
with an actual man!
Lynda Barry
Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.
Ethel Barrymore
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
John Barrymore
Ultimately, the job of the manager is to get ordinary people to create extraordinary results.
Christopher Bartlett
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Bernard Baruch
Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
Bernard Baruch
Mr. Basketball - See
Bill Raftery
Age is deformed, youth unkind,
We scorn their bodies, they our mind.
Thomas Bastard
Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an
executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business.
Jean Baudrillard
Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.
Melissa Bean
Polar Bear - See
Hugh Rowland
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.
James Beard
I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon.
James Beard
I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.
Thomas Becket
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
I swear they're real!
Victoria Beckham
You are going to hurt me, please don't hurt me, just one more moment, I beg you!
Jeanne Becu
Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: -
So many times do I love again.
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
After a long silence, Dodge cleared his throat. I think I speak for all of us when I say, 'Huh?
Seeing Redd
Frank Beddor
And even, if circumstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan.
Seeing Redd
Frank Beddor
For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man.
To be killed by you is to be desired more
than a life excluded from your service.
Bravo.
Her Imperial Viciousness laughed with genuine feeling. Bravo!
Seeing Redd
Frank Beddor
Only the previous day, Arch had found him in a spirit-dance corral, blistering
the creatures to the point of death, such was his need to touch and destroy.
Seeing Redd
Frank Beddor
Well now,
the scholar went on, I'm just an old fuddy-duddy who could use a tan, so you needn't grant my opinion any authority, but I
consider the queendom lucky that a handful of Milliners and their children lived incognito among the population during Redd's tyranny.
Seeing Redd
Frank Beddor
The largest profits go to those businesses which most devotedly follow a policy of insisting
on a competitive advantage, no matter how small, for every product or service they market.
R. H. Beeby
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward Beecher
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Henry Ward Beecher
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry Ward Beecher
No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.
Henry Ward Beecher
Now comes the mystery.
Henry Ward Beecher
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Henry Ward Beecher
Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to
a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.
Max Beerbohm
Friends applaud, the comedy is finished.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Fame is failure disguised as money.
Brendan Behan
I only drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
Brendan Behan
I was ... court-martialled in my absence, sentenced to death in my absence. So I said, right, you can shoot me in my absence.
Brendan Behan
There's no bad publicity except an obituary.
Brendan Behan
Ellis Bell - See
Emily Brontë
Physicians of the Utmost Fame
Were called at once; but when they came
They answered, as they took their Fees,
There is no cure for this disease.
Hilaire Belloc
Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside
of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemetries.
Saul Bellow
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.
Robert Benchley
I never sleep through a performance. I always make sure that I am awake for the intermission.
Robert Benchley
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert Benchley
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Robert Benchley
Glass is, in general, the enemy of secrets. It is also the enemy of possession.
Experience and Poverty
Walter Benjamin
All war represents is a failure of diplomacy.
Tony Benn
If you file your waste basket for 50 years, you have a public library.
Tony Benn
Normally, people give up parliament because they want to do more business or spend more time with family. My wife
said why don't you say you're giving up to devote more time to politics?
. And it is what I have done.
Tony Benn
Life, you know, is rather like opening a tin of sardines. We're all of us looking for the key.
Alan Bennett
Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
Alan Bennett
You only have to survive in England and all is forgiven you ... if you can eat a boiled egg at ninety in England they think you deserve a Nobel Prize.
Alan Bennett
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Arnold Bennett
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied
and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Arnold Bennett
The rough broad difference between the American and the European business man is that
the latter is anxious to leave his work, while the former is anxious to get to it.
Arnold Bennett
We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served
in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.
Arnold Bennett
Copying other organizations' activities sounds like industrial espionage to
some people, but the truth is that benchmarking is perfectly legal and ethical.
Warren Bennis
Managers are people who do things right and leaders are people who do the right things.
Warren Bennis
The leader ... is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather, they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators
than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.
Warren Bennis
The only way many companies can attract and keep the best people is by offering them
more than merely money or prestige - they offer them the chance to make history.
Warren Bennis
Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have
unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, not should they be.
Warren Bennis
I don't deserve this, but I have arthritis, and I don't deserve that either.
Jack Benny
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
A. C. Benson
All punishment is mischief: all punishment in itself is evil.
Jeremy Bentham
Accounting issues did not cause Enron's stock price to fall - its failed business model did.
Joseph Berardino
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
Jorge Mario Bergoglio - See
Francis I
Anything you can do, I can do better, I can do anything better than you.
Irving Berlin
Under current law, on January 1st, 2013, there is going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases.
House Committee on Financial Services on February 29, 2012.
Ben Bernanke
Bernard of Chartres - See
Bernardus Carnotensis
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity
to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Timothy Berners-Lee
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
Timothy Berners-Lee
All the pictures that hung in my memory before I knew you have faded and given place to our radiant moments
together. Now I cannot live apart from you ... Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Sarah Bernhardt
A good ball club.
When asked what makes a good baseball team manager.
Yogi Berra
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
Yogi Berra
Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't go to yours.
Yogi Berra
I didn't really say everything I said.
Pointing out that he didn't say everything that people think he said.
Yogi Berra
I thought they said steak dinner, but then I found it was a state dinner...
Regarding a fancy dinner he attended at the White House.
Yogi Berra
I usually take a two hour nap from 1 to 4.
Yogi Berra
I want to thank you for making this day necessary.
Spoken on Yogi Berra day in St Louis in 1947.
Yogi Berra
I'd say he's done more than that!
When asked if Don Mattingly had exceeded expectations.
Yogi Berra
If I didn't wake up I'd still be sleeping.
Yogi Berra
If they don't want to come, you can't stop them.
Yogi Berra
If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else.
Yogi Berra
It ain't over 'til it's over.
Commenting about the 1973 National League pennant race.
Yogi Berra
It gets late early around here...
Yogi Berra
"...It was hard to have a conversation with anyone; there were so many people talking.
Regarding a fancy dinner he attended at the White House.
Yogi Berra
It's like déjà vu all over again.
In reference to the number of home runs hit by Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle.
Yogi Berra
Never answer an anonymous letter.
Yogi Berra
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
A general comment on the game of baseball.
Yogi Berra
Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
Commenting on a restaurant in St. Louis called Ruggeri's.
Yogi Berra
Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
Yogi Berra
Surprise me!
When asked by his wife Carmen where he would like to be buried.
Yogi Berra
The future ain't what it used to be.
Yogi Berra
Think! How the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time?
Yogi Berra
We have a good time together, even when we're not together.
Talking about his wife Carmen.
Yogi Berra
We make too many wrong mistakes.
Yogi Berra
What? You mean right now?
When asked what time it is.
Yogi Berra
When you get to a fork in the road, take it.
Giving driving instructions to his house.
Yogi Berra
Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel!
Yogi Berra
You better make it four, I don't think I could eat eight.
After being asked how many slices should be cut in his pizza.
Yogi Berra
You can observe a lot by watching.
Yogi Berra
You don't look so hot yourself.
Replying to the Mayor of New York's wife after being told that he looked cool in his summer suit.
Yogi Berra
You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what is left.
Yogi Berra
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Aneurin Bevan
Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
Aneurin Bevan
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
Aneurin Bevan
Will last as long as there are folk left with the faith to fight for it.
Referring to the National Health Service (NHS).
Aneurin Bevan
If someone thinks they are being mistreated by us, they won't tell 5 people, they'll tell 5000.
Jeff Bezos
The common question that gets asked in business is, why?
That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?
Jeff Bezos
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
Jeff Bezos
Bibi - See
Benjamin Netanyahu
Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
Joe Biden
If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't Black.
In an interview with The Breakfast Club
radio program, May 22, 2020.
Joe Biden
Isn't it a bitch? I mean, ... this vice president thing?
Response to a student body vice president at Harvard College, Oct. 2, 2014.
Joe Biden
Let's build back better.
Joe Biden
Poor kids are just as bright, just as talented, as white kids.
Remarks made to Asian and Latino Coalition, Des Moines, Iowa, August 8, 2019.
Joe Biden
We have to be remembered for what's been done.
Joe Biden
You're a lying dog-faced pony soldier.
Remark made to a student at a campaign event, Hampton, New Hampshire, February 9, 2020.
Joe Biden
Acquaintance: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Ambrose Bierce
BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
Ambrose Bierce
COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.
Ambrose Bierce
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce
CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
Ambrose Bierce
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce
When money talks, few are deaf.
Earl Derr Biggers
Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water.
Karan Bilimoria
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
Josh Billings
As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither.
Josh Billings
In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us.
Josh Billings
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Josh Billings
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh Billings
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
Josh Billings
Bird - See
Charlie Parker
Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only through gambling can we take advantage of them.
Clarence Birdseye
Nathan Birnbaum - See
George Burns
I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between
different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.
Otto von Bismarck
Politics is the art of the possible.
Otto von Bismarck
Eric Arthur Blair - See
George Orwell
The first steps to becoming a really great manager are simply common sense; but common sense is not very common.
Gerard M. Blair
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Tony Blair
If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
On reaching the supposed age of 100, which many people believed to be 96.
Eubie Blake
And did those feet in ancient time walk upon England's mountains green?
William Blake
I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
William Blake
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is, infinite.
William Blake
Love seeketh only Self to please,
To bind another to its delight,
Joys in another's loss of ease,
And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.
William Blake
Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
William Blake
My mother groan'd, my father wept,
Into the dangerous world I leapt;
Helpless, naked, piping loud,
Like a fiend hid in a cloud.
William Blake
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake
Congratulations offer more potential than cash. The amount of available cash is limited, but managers have an unlimited supply of
congratulations. It's important to pay people fairly, but managers also should heap on congratulations and feed people's souls.
Kenneth Blanchard
Everyone is a potential winner. Some people are disguised as losers, don't let their appearances fool you.
Kenneth Blanchard
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the
heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
Alan Bleasdale
Tania Blixen - See
Isak Dinesen
Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke
- See
Isak Dinesen
The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.
Michael Bloomberg
If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure, no
use, nothing which will attract and charm me, for by the suppression of your individuality, you lose your distinctive character.
Edward Wilmot Blyden
Ethel Mae Blyth (or Blythe) - See
Ethel Barrymore
John Sidney Blyth (or Blythe) - See
John Barrymore
William Jefferson Blythe III - See
Bill Clinton
Bobby - See
Robert F. Kennedy
Body - See
Jesse Ventura
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
Boethius
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
Boethius
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
Boethius
Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.
Boethius
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Boethius
I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.
Humphrey Bogart
When a dog bites a man, that isn't news. It often happens. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.
John B. Bogart
A triviality is a statement whose opposite is false. However, a great truth is a statement whose opposite may well be another great truth.
Niels Bohr
Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - Thank God It's Friday.
They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.
Richard Nelson Bolles
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Erma Bombeck
Laughter rises out of tragedy, when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
Erma Bombeck
The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
Erma Bombeck
When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.
Erma Bombeck
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoléon Bonaparte
He who fears being conquered is certain of defeat.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Josephine...
Napoléon Bonaparte
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Napoléon Bonaparte
This record is not tainted at all. At all. Period.
Spoken after breaking Hank Aaron's Major League Baseball all-time home-run record
with his 756th career homer amid rampant speculation that he has used steroids.
Barry Bonds
Doing the things we do now and doing them better, cheaper and faster will take us so far.
But it will not take us far enough. We're going to have to do new things in new ways.
Peter Bonfield
The big danger in mega-mergers is that they are seen as a mating of dinosaurs.
Peter Bonfield
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Edward de Bono
Do I believe in giving up? No, I don't.
David Boreanaz
A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
James Boren
Bureaucracy is the epoxy that greases the wheels of progress.
James Boren
Guidelines for bureaucrats: (1) When in charge, ponder. (2) When in trouble, delegate. (3) When in doubt, mumble.
James Boren
I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.
James Boren
I have what it takes to take what you've got.
James Boren
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
James Boren
That favourite subject, Myself.
James Boswell
What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.
Horatio Bottomley
I am about to - or I am going to - die: either expression is correct.
Dominique Bouhours
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
Elizabeth Bowen
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Elizabeth Bowen
Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
Elizabeth Bowen
Start with your own money and value your intuition. It's all about endurance in the
beginning. Your dream and passion to succeed must be stronger than your fear of failure.
Terri Bowersock
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
Omar Bradley
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
Omar Bradley
Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you.
Johannes Brahms
Those who won our independence ... believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Louis Brandeis
Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.
Richard Branson
I believe in benevolent dictatorships, provided I am the dictator.
Richard Branson
In a restless, creative business with an emphasis on experiment and development, ideas are the lifeblood.
Richard Branson
No one has ever accused us of lagging behind. In fact, I am willing to turn an
entire company upside down if it's time to do that. We're in perpetual evolution.
Richard Branson
The kinds of people we employ are not afraid of taking risks. If someone mucks up, they
don't get a bollocking from me. They know they've mucked up and they redouble their efforts.
Richard Branson
We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?
Richard Branson
The only real failure is giving up.
Scooter Braun
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Wernher von Braun
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for the Emperor can actually do nothing.
Bertolt Brecht
Sarah Breedlove - See
C. J. Walker
The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.
Arthur Brisbane
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
Tom Brokaw
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good
life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
Tom Brokaw
Lev Davidovich Bronstein - See
Leon Trotsky
Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.
Charlotte Brontë
No coward soul is mine, no trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere; I see heaven's glories shine, and faith shines equal, arming me from fear.
Emily Brontë
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
Rupert Brooke
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England.
Rupert Brooke
If there's no point, then there's no point giving up.
Charlie Brooker
I am 46, and have been for some time past.
Anita Brookner
In real life, of course, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention
that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market ... Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
Anita Brookner
Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get
anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
Garth Brooks
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
Joyce Brothers
The best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers
Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
Heywood Broun
Most British statesmen have either drunk too much or womanised too much. I never fell into the second category.
George Brown
They should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.
Commenting about a voter he met while campaigning for the British general election.
Gordon Brown
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
Rita Brown
How does one keep from growing old inside
? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with
people? Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.
Robert McAfee Brown
There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
Robert McAfee Brown
I know that upon 4th of July, our 4th of July orators talk of Liberty, while three million of their own country men are groaning in abject Slavery. This
is called the land of the free and the home of the brave
; it is called the asylum of the oppressed
; and some have been foolish enough to call
it the Cradle of Liberty.
If it is the cradle of liberty,
they have rocked the child to death. It is dead long since, and yet we talk about
democracy and republicanism, while one-sixth of our countrymen are clanking their chains upon the very soil which our fathers moistened with their blood.
William Wells Brown
He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
Thomas Browne
We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
Thomas Browne
Beautiful.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Robert Browning
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be.
Robert Browning
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still
climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Browning
Oh, to be in England now that April's there.
Robert Browning
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning
The shortest and the best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interests to promote yours.
Jean de La Bruyère
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to
speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
Jean de La Bruyère
Whereas logic is the art of demonstrating truth, eloquence is the gift of winning over people's
hearts and minds so that you may inspire them and persuade them in whatever way you choose.
Jean de La Bruyère
The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience,
while the error of age is to believe that experience is a substitute for intelligence.
Lyman Bryson
A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.
Martin Buber
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
Martin Buber
I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.
Martin Buber
There are three principle in a man's being and life: The principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of
action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.
Martin Buber
There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not for everyone's greed.
Frank Buchman
Once the what
is decided the how
always follows. We must not make the how
an excuse for not facing and accepting the what.
Pearl S. Buck
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
Pearl S. Buck
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted
by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Pearl S. Buck
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
Pearl S. 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 S. Buck
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pearl S. Buck
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from
meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Pearl S. Buck
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
Pearl S. Buck
Bucky - See
Buckminster Fuller
Business is all about putting out money today to get a whole lot back later.
Warren Buffett
I don't pay attention to what the stock does. If the business does well, the stock eventually follows.
Warren Buffett
I've learned the perimeter of my circle of confidence.
Warren Buffett
Managerial intellect wilted in competition with managerial adrenaline. The thrill of the chase blinded pursuers to the consequences of the chase.
Warren Buffett
My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.
Op-ed from the New York Times on Monday, August 15, 2011.
Warren Buffett
Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside
advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked.
Warren Buffett
One's objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out, and get it over ... your problem won't improve with age.
Warren Buffett
Our favorite holding period is forever.
Warren Buffett
Take Wrigley's Chewing Gum. I don't think the Internet is going to change how people chew gum.
Warren Buffett
The attitude of disrespect that many executives have today for accurate reporting is a business disgrace.
And auditors ... have done little on the positive side. Though auditors should regard the investing public
as their client, they tend to kowtow instead to the managers who choose them and dole out their pay.
Warren Buffett
The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.
Warren Buffett
The funny thing is better TV shows don't cost that much more than lousy TV shows.
Warren Buffett
The market will pay better to entertain than educate.
Warren Buffett
The true investor welcomes volatility ... a wildly fluctuating market means
that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses.
Warren Buffett
The truly big investment idea can usually be explained in a short paragraph. We like a business with enduring competitive advantages that is
run by able and owner-oriented people. When these attributes exist, and when we can make purchases at sensible prices, it is hard to go wrong.
Warren Buffett
Wall Street is the only place people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from people who take the subway.
Warren Buffett
Your goal as an investor ... to purchase, at a rational price, a part interest in an easily-understandable
business whose earnings are virtually certain to be materially higher ... years from now. Over time, you will find
only a few companies that meet these standards - so when you see one ... buy a meaningful amount of stock.
Warren Buffett
Bugs - See
Arthur Baer
Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as
excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.
Charles Bukowski
I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover.
Sandra Bullock
We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.
Charlotte Bunch
Napoleone di Buonaparte - See
Napoléon Bonaparte
Abigail Van Buren - See
Pauline Phillips
Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
Billie Burke
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Attributed.
Edmund Burke
If you are having as much fun running a big corporation as you did running a piece of it,
then you are probably interfering too much with the people who really make it happen.
James E. Burke
Watch how a man takes praise and there you have the measure of him.
Thomas Burke
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
The Sphere and Duties of Woman
George Burnap
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
Leo Burnett
When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
Leo Burnett
Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.
George Burns
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
George Burns
A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My
advice: Don't worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements.
H. S. M. Burns
Jesse Louis Burns - See
Jesse Jackson
Rabbie Burns - See
Robert Burns
But to see her was to love her;
Love but her, and love for ever.
Robert Burns
O my Luve is like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June;
O my Luve is like the melodie
That's sweetly played in tune.
Robert Burns
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!
The best laid schemes of mice and men
oft go awry,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!
Robert Burns
As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when
you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.
Augusten Burroughs
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter ... to
be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
John Burroughs
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
John Burroughs
Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.
William S. Burroughs
Globalization has much potential. It could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable
problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice.
Sharan Burrow
One evening in October, when I was one-third sober,
An' taking home a load
with manly pride;
My poor feet began to stutter, so I lay down in the gutter,
And a pig came up an' lay down by my side;
Then we sang It's all fair weather when good fellows get together,
Till a lady passing by was heard to say:
You can tell a man who boozes
by the company he chooses
And the pig got up and slowly walked away.
Benjamin Hapgood Burt
Our wrangling lawyers ... are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell.
Robert Burton
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
Leo Buscaglia
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Leo Buscaglia
Too often we under estimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest
compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia
Who knows, somewhere out there in the audience may even be someone who will one day follow in
my footsteps and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well.
Barbara Bush
All skills begin with the basics of reading and math, which are supposed to be learned in the early
grades of our schools. Yet for too long, for too many children, those skills were never mastered.
George W. Bush
Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job.
To FEMA director Michael Brown, who resigned 10 days later amid criticism over his handling of the Hurricane Katrina debacle.
George W. Bush
I really am not the kind of guy that sits here and says, Oh gosh, I'm worried about my legacy.
Quote from an interview with CBS' 60 Minutes on January 14, 2007.
George W. Bush
I'm the decider, and I decide what is best. And what's best is for
Don Rumsfeld to remain as the secretary of defense.
In Washington, D.C.
George W. Bush
Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundations of America.
George W. Bush
There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -
that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.
In Nashville, Tennessee.
George W. Bush
These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of America's resolve.
George W. Bush
They misunderestimated me.
In Bentonville, Arkansas.
George W. Bush
Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country.
In Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
George W. Bush
You're working hard to put food on your family.
In Greater Nashua, New Hampshire.
George W. Bush
By blaming others, we fail to find the real solutions to our problems and we do not carry out our own responsibilities.
Jeb Bush
Probably nothing.
Jeb Bush
My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was
serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.
Kate Bush
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Many people's tombstones should read, Died at 30. Buried at 60.
Nicholas Murray Butler
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler (Author)
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
Samuel Butler (Author)
Genius ... has been described as a supreme capacity for taking trouble ... It might be more fitly described as a supreme
capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds and keeping them therein so long as the genius remains.
Samuel Butler (Author)
Home, Sweet Home
must surely have been written by a bachelor.
Samuel Butler (Author)
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Samuel Butler (Author)
Money is dead men's bones and dead men's souls. The money that men make lives after them.
Samuel Butler (Author)
For Justice, though she's painted blind,
Is to the weaker side inclin'd,
Hudibras
Samuel Butler (Poet)
Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.
Tony Buzan
Your brain is, indeed, a supreme example of, and is the ultimate, Internet.
Tony Buzan
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
David Byrne
Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.
James F. Byrnes
'Tis strange - but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction.
George Byron
A lady of a certain age
, which means Certainly aged.
George Byron
All tragedies are finish'd by death,
All comedies are ended by a marriage.
George Byron
Friendship is Love without his wings!
George Byron
I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
George Byron
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
George Byron
Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.
George Byron
Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe,
Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast,
Is that portentous phrase, I told you so,
Uttered by friends, those prophets of the past.
George Byron
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar;
I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
George Byron
Years steal Fire from the mind as vigour from the limb; And Life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
George Byron