#means

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#being #choice #conscious #focus #future

The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual. ↗

— Polly Berrien Berends

#articulate #child #expresses #hears #individual

It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system. ↗

— Phil Berger

#chronic #controllable #disease #even #fun

The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#believe #building #captured #commandment #could

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#disproportion #great #madness #means #proof

The First Amendment means everything to me. ↗

— Julian Bond

#everything #first #first amendment #me #means

Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain. ↗

— Kit Bond

#cold #cold war #day #end #fear

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#bring #commit #conviction #crimes #criminal

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#live #means #processes #which

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#decide #facts #independence #law #means