By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke
By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess.
‐‐ Kenneth Baker
By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls.
‐‐ Jonathan Raban
By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.
‐‐ Sylvia Earle
By the end of the millennium, despite the continuing excitement of the field, almost thirty years of a detour from chemistry to medical imaging began to pall, and I changed my focus to a field of chemical research, just in time for my past to catch up with me in the form of a Nobel Prize. All detours should be so productive!
‐‐ Paul Lauterbur
By the end of the nineteenth century, the stereotype of the ugly American - voracious, preachy, mercenary, and bombastically chauvinist - was firmly in place in Europe.
‐‐ Simon Schama
By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all.
‐‐ Michael Musto
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.
‐‐ Jason Mraz
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years.
‐‐ Gore Vidal
By the fall of 2007, my last remaining Iraqi friend in Baghdad had left. Once he was gone, my connection to the country and the war began to thin, even as the terror diminished. I missed the improvement that came with the surge, and so, in my nervous system, I never quite registered it.
‐‐ George Packer
By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.
‐‐ Jodie Foster
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.
‐‐ Steven Chu
By the fourth or fifth take, I had gotten over the 'Oh my God, it's a Stanley Kubrick movie' and got around to doing a little bit of acting.
‐‐ Thomas Gibson
By the fruits which it bears is the tree known.
‐‐ Jan Hus
By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
‐‐ Lascelles Abercrombie
By the God of thy Father who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
‐‐ John Pearson
By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very middle-class Indian upbringing. We were never made to realise who we were or that my father and mother were huge stars - it was a very normal house, and I'd like my daughter to have the same thing.
‐‐ Abhishek Bachchan
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.
‐‐ David F. Houston
By the last decades of the 21st century, church worship will still take the form of reading passages of traditional texts - the Bible, the Koran, the Rig Veda - but physicist-priests will preside over the ceremonies.
‐‐ Frank Tipler
By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry.
‐‐ James Monroe
By the late 1970s, repression and economic chaos were causing increasing unrest throughout Latin America. Army strongmen were forced to cede power in Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and the Dominican Republic.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer
By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity.
‐‐ Ron Chernow
By the late 1980s, there was the beginning of awareness about a significant global landmine problem, and small steps were being taken to try to deal with the problem.
‐‐ Jody Williams
By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.
‐‐ Chuck Eddy
By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties.
‐‐ Peter York
By the law of averages, there has to be life elsewhere. The universe is so huge, and I don't think God would have created this whole big huge cosmos and just say there's only going to be life on Earth, and that's it.
‐‐ Gary Wright
By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of every civil lord; therefore every civil lord must love any of his servants as himself; but by natural instinct, every lord abhors slavery; therefore, by the law of charity, he is bound not to impose slavery on any brother in Christ.
‐‐ John Wycliffe
By the life we live through the grace of Christ, the character is formed. The original loveliness begins to be restored to the soul. The attributes of the character of Christ are imparted, and the image of the Divine begins to shine forth.
‐‐ Ellen G. White
By the mid-17th century, telescopes had improved enough to make visible the seasonally growing and shrinking polar ice caps on Mars, and features such as Syrtis Major, a dark patch thought to be a shallow sea.
‐‐ John Updike
By the mid-1950s, more than a third of all America workers in the private sector were unionized. And the unions demanded and received a fair slice of the American pie.
‐‐ Robert Reich
By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too thin to support major backlist retailers.
‐‐ Jason Epstein
By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
‐‐ Barbara Demick
By the mid-'60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.
‐‐ Brian Eno
By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.
‐‐ Dave Van Ronk
By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.
‐‐ Nguyen Cao Ky
By the nature of cinema and how it literalizes what we envision, movies can have difficulty replicating that connection we make with a classic book.
‐‐ Steve Erickson
By the nature of the sport and the danger we face daily, we are very close knit. Some of us have spent most of our lives together. To give you an example, having spent two decades sitting next to Richard Johnson and seeing him virtually every day, I have probably spent more time with him than I have my family, and he the same.
‐‐ Tony McCoy
By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large.
‐‐ Graham Nelson
By the Nineties, so many people were moonlighting and creating their own professional identities that China generated a brisk new business in the printing of business cards.
‐‐ Evan Osnos
By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs.
‐‐ John Cornyn
By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.
‐‐ Linus Pauling
By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime.
‐‐ Moshe Sharett
By the same token, I think news has more and more of a pro bono aspect to all the networks. When we do our election coverages throughout this coming year, it's not a money-maker for us. It is more of a public service situation.
‐‐ Leslie Moonves
By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.
‐‐ Michael Hastings
By the second time I sang by myself in school, I just realized that I was more in control of my environment than I had ever been before.
‐‐ Seinabo Sey
By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room.
‐‐ Taylor Dayne
By the sole fact of his entering into 'Thought,' man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.
‐‐ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.
‐‐ Don Marquis
By the time a child reaches out to an adult, the vast majority of kids have been dealing with the bullying and trying to ignore it for a long time.
‐‐ Rosalind Wiseman