B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Beard is like Niqab, that covers cheeks”
“Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.”
“Beare with evill, and expect good.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Bearing all this in mind, we see that there is no Russian national understanding which would permit the early establishment in Russia of anything resembling the private enterprise system as we know it.”
Source: American Diplomacy: Sixtieth-Anniversary Expanded Edition
“Bearing crisis upon crisis, we shall rise as creator.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Bearing in his right paw the shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances, cut the roots of useless attachments, and flings damp sand on the fires of greed and war; His left paw in the Mudra of Comradely Display - indicating that all creatures have the full right to live to their limits and that deer, rabbits, chipmunks, snakes, dandelions, and lizards all grow in the realm of the Dharma.”
Source: Back on the Fire: Essays
“Bearing in mind that "the market" is not an invention of capitalism but that it has existed for thousands of years in many different societies, social justice logically requires that the profits resulting from the operation of markets and infrastructures created by society be equitably shared within societies and in a larger context within the human family.”
“Bearing my mother's face was a daily reminder that I could be as strong as she had been. And fighting for what I wanted most in life was the best way to keep her alive in my heart.”
“Bearing ourselves humbly before God... we await undismayed the impending assault.... be the ordeal sharp or long, or both, we shall seek no terms, we shall tolerate no parlay; we may show mercy - we shall ask for none.”
“Bearing sham and scoffing rude, in my place condemned He stood - Sealed my pardon with His blood: Hallelujah, what a Savior!”
“Bearing the death of comrades in arms was hard enough, but being responsible for the decisions that cost those lives was an enemy capable of crushing the mightiest of warriors.”
Source: Fractured Harmony
“Bearing witness from the sides of the room, ten or more lepers shouted at the bizarre scene, “Diable! Diable!” And then chants of some sort, or prayers, followed by more shouts of “Diable!” They were hurling these words at Moreau like stones.”
Source: The Spy's Little Zonbi
“BearPaw Duck And Meme Farm is the anti-Metaverse. Why live in a fake world, when a real one already exists? Bill Gates talks about The Metaverse to obscure the fact that (s)he is now America's largest farm holder. The Fake is for YOU, while (s)he wants The Real.”
Source: Duck Quotes For The Ages. Specifically ages 18-81.
“Bears and wolves are our fairy-tale archenemies, and in these tales we teach our children only, and always, to kill them, rather than to tiptoe past and let them sleep. Maybe that's why I'm comforted by the image of a small child curled in the embrace of a mother bear. We need new bear and wolf tales for our times, since so many of our old ones seem to be doing us no good. Now we're finding that it takes our every effort of will and imagination to pull back, to stop in our tracks as hunger and hunted, to halt our habit of killing, before every kind of life we know arrives at the brink of extinction.”
Source: Small Wonder
“Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear's days are warmed by the same sun, his dwellings are overdomed by the same blue sky, and his life turns and ebbs with heart pulsing like ours. He was poured from the same first fountain. And whether he at last goes to our stingy Heaven or not, he has terrestrial immortality. His life, not long, not short, knows no beginning , no ending. To him life unstinted, unplanned, is above the accidents of time, and his years, markless and boundless, equal eternity.”
“Bears are simultaneously so graceful and so strong. Bears know who they are, but they often don’t know who you are, which is why they kill you.”
Source: Sleepwalk with Me: and Other Painfully True Stories
“Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.”
“Bears being sent through the mail should never be squashed up to make them fit. It gives them indigestion.”
“Bears don't live on Park Avenue.”
“Bears find themselves at the spot where two deep-seated but contradictory human impulses collide: the desire to feel protected from unforeseeable danger and the longing for unspoiled nature.”
Source: Bears: A Brief History
“Bears need people. People need bears.”
“Bears often hoard rose petals to strew on hiking couples. Little-known romantic fact.”
Source: Winter’s Orbit
“Bears, dragons, tempestuous on mountain and river, Startle the forest and make the heights tremble. Clouds darken beneath the darkness of rain, streams pale with a pallor of mist. The gods of Thunder and Lightning Shatter the whole range.”
“Bears," I muttered, adding a new fear to the pile. "That would be just her luck, wouldn't it? Stray bear in town. OF course it would head straight for Bella.”
“Beast had once informed me that humans were hunters only by luck and because they had opposable thumbs.”
Source: Skinwalker: A Jane Yellowrock Novel
“BEAST is very happy because of B2UTIES.. Thank you those who love and care for us.”
“Beast Mode doesnt make excuses. It doesnt complain. Whatever youre doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.”
“Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.”
“Beastly of him to die before you realized he might be fascinating.”
Source: And Only to Deceive
“Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.”
Source: MISS MARPLE MEETS MURDER
“BEASTON: Strong women don’t do well in cages.”
Source: Red Havoc Rogue
“Beasts bounding through time.
Van Gogh writing his brother for paints
Hemingway testing his shotgun
Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine
the impossibility of being human
Villon expelled from Paris for being a thief
Faulkner drunk in the gutters of his town
the impossibility of being human
Burroughs killing his wife with a gun
Mailer stabbing his
the impossibility of being human
Maupassant going mad in a rowboat
Dostoevsky lined up against a wall to be shot
Crane off the back of a boat into the propeller
the impossibility
Sylvia with her head in the oven like a baked potato
Harry Crosby leaping into that Black Sun
Lorca murdered in the road by the Spanish troops
the impossibility
Artaud sitting on a madhouse bench
Chatterton drinking rat poison
Shakespeare a plagiarist
Beethoven with a horn stuck into his head against deafness
the impossibility the impossibility
Nietzsche gone totally mad
the impossibility of being human
all too human
this breathing
in and out
out and in
these punks
these cowards
these champions
these mad dogs of glory
moving this little bit of light toward
us
impossibly”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.”
“Beasts kill for hunger, men for pay.”
Source: Gay's Fables, etc
“Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.”
“Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the while, who possesses a higher faculty, abuses it, and therefore goes blundering on.”
Source: Sir Thomas Marc Or Colloquies on the Progress und Prospects of Sceuly, 1
“Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.”
“Beat a man with what he doesn't know.”
“Beat all kinds of fear. Be steadfast in your values and principles as you earnestly pursue success.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“Beat and cuff your slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog. Feed and clothe him well, work him moderately, surround him with physical comfort and dreams of freedom intrude.”
Source: Autobiographies
“Beat him until he softens. Lift his ragged body and raise him with your whiskey breath. Get him out alive. Watch from your grave as he beats his own child, because you beat him, because yours beat you, because his beat his, because his beat his...”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“Beat him until there’s no skin left on his back. If he passes out, wake him and beat him again. (Father) Love you, too, Father. (Acheron)”
Source: Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel
“Beat him, eat him and get out.”
Source: 3 Screenplays
“Beat inflation, don't buy balloons”
Source: You Are Only Limited By Your Own Imagination
“Beat it to death if it succeeds.”
“Beat me, hate me, you can never break me.”
“Beat the drum for justice.”
Source: Just Mercy
“Beat the element of desire entirely out of myself.”
Source: Midnight Sun
“Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.”
“Beatbullying's 'The Big March 2012' is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to be a part of it. I have been a victim of cyber bullying myself and I know firsthand just how hurtful it can be. People think that they can hide behind computers and send nasty and hurtful comments to people, and this is wrong.”