Be able to identify the most common breeds of dogs and cats on sight.
‐‐ Marilyn vos Savant
Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.
‐‐ Marilyn vos Savant
Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.
‐‐ Marilyn vos Savant
Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.
‐‐ Marilyn vos Savant
Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.
‐‐ Marilyn vos Savant
Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.
‐‐ Marilyn vos Savant
Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them.
‐‐ Marilyn vos Savant
Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.
‐‐ Marilyn vos Savant
Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.
‐‐ Marilyn vos Savant
Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.
‐‐ Donald Rumsfeld
Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity.
‐‐ Marilyn vos Savant
Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.
‐‐ Marilyn vos Savant
Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you.
‐‐ Marilyn vos Savant
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
‐‐ Jean de La Fontaine
Be always sure you are right - then go ahead.
‐‐ Davy Crockett
Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli
Be an advocate for your loved ones in the hospital. Ask tough questions of your local hospital and health system about preparedness for the likeliest emergencies, and express your views on how medical resources should be allocated in case they ever fall short.
‐‐ Sheri Fink
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
‐‐ Victor Hugo
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
‐‐ Dante Alighieri
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
‐‐ Alan Alda
Be as transparent as you can in your trade. The big thing in life is trust.
‐‐ T. S. Kalyanaraman
Be as you wish to seem.
‐‐ Socrates
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
‐‐ Horace Mann
Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.
‐‐ Aeschines
Be assured that, as certain as Congress transcends its assigned limits and usurps powers never conferred, or stretches those conferred beyond the proper limits, so surely will the fruits of its usurpation pass into the hands of the Executive. In seeking to become master, it but makes a master in the person of the President.
‐‐ John C. Calhoun
Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.
‐‐ George Muller
Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.
‐‐ Jane Byrne
Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
‐‐ Thomas a Kempis
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
‐‐ Tacitus
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
‐‐ Isaac of Nineveh
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin
Be aware of textural elements throughout a party, like silverware, stemware, and linens. But the biggest element is metaphorical: it's your own touch. How are you making people feel?
‐‐ Danny Meyer
Be aware of who in your life is actually interested in hearing you discuss your writing, and who's just asking to be polite. Listening to writers talk about their work is often excruciatingly dull.
‐‐ Hanya Yanagihara
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
‐‐ Robert Fulghum
Be aware that the more often a child hears the word no, the greater his need to say no himself.
‐‐ Cathy Rindner Tempelsman
Be blind. Be stupid. Be British. Be careful.
‐‐ Virginia Graham
Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
‐‐ Aeschylus
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
‐‐ Herbert Spencer
Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.
‐‐ Queen Latifah
Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
‐‐ Billie Jean King
Be bold - there's enough Neville Chamberlains in the world; be a Winston Churchill, for crying out loud!
‐‐ Matt Bevin
Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way.
‐‐ Thelonious Monk
Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
‐‐ Alan Alda
Be brave if you lose and meek if you win.
‐‐ Harvey Penick
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
‐‐ Paulo Coelho
Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.
‐‐ Oscar Hammerstein II
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
‐‐ George Herbert
Be candid with everyone.
‐‐ Jack Welch