B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you want to burn your passport and beg the Luftwaffe to have another go.”
“Beautifully written, intensely passionate and gripping, FALLEN grabbed me
from the first sentence and didn’t let go. Its eerie future world and
frightening mores provide an unforgettable backdrop to the story of Lilia
Desjardins, the shade-hunter, and fallen-angel turned cop, Adam Montgomery.
It’s Matrix, Blade Runner and Terminator rolled into a riveting love story
and made better. Perfect. A must-read by an author who keeps you on the
edge of your seat.”
“Beautifully-acted and precisely observed, ILO ILO is an amazing debut, full of heart and intelligence.”
“Beautify your breath - beautify your life.”
Source: Mindfulness: Living in the Moment Living in the Breath
“Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love light and compassion. Life will be beautiful.”
Source: Meditation: Insights and Inspiration
“Beautify your thoughts. Thoughts are the headwaters of action, life and manifestation.”
Source: The Sunfood Diet Success System
“Beautify your tongues, O people, with truthfulness, and adorn your souls with the ornament of honesty. Beware, O people, that ye deal not treacherously with any one.”
“Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.”
Source: Edith Wharton The Dover Reader
“Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.”
“Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact; it is not a quantity.”
Source: Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition
“Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“Beauty [is] a kind of radiance. People who possess a true inner beauty, their eyes are a little brighter, their skin a little more dewy. They vibrate at a different frequency.”
“Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life, in actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)
“Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.”
Source: Summa Theologica, Volume 2 (Part II, First Section)
“Beauty admires when you have a smile on your face.”
“Beauty ain't beauty.”
Source: Bulldozer on Duty
“Beauty Ain't Beauty (The Sonnet)
Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder,
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
Eyes have evolved not to perceive beauty,
But to look for a fertile progenitor.
All instincts of beauty are prehistoric,
All impulse of attraction is mere heat.
Such tendency is an act of animal libido,
It has nothing to do with human heartbeat.
If you wanna discover someone's beauty,
You gotta throw the dirt off your heart.
Observe their behavior outside the body,
Only then shall you witness true beauty's path.
Across the vacuum of body lies the valley of beauty.
Defy the vacuum, and you'll realize, beauty is divinity.”
Source: Bulldozer on Duty
“Beauty all around us.
Disaster all around us.
Contradictory co-existing realities
all around us--
and always,
most definitely,
inside us.
But that is nothing new.
That has always been true.
So tell me, tell me,
What are we going to do?”
“Beauty alters the grain of reality.”
Source: The Goldfinch
“Beauty always fades, but it lasts so much longer if you lay a thick layer of intelligence and integrity underneath it.”
Source: I Was Told It Would Get Easier
“Beauty always had a purpose: to be of service to life.”
Source: Report to Greco
“Beauty always has something remote.”
“Beauty always made a target of its possessor. Every other human quality was hidden easily enough --- intelligence, talent, selfishness, even madness --- but beauty could not be concealed.
"Do you ever wish you didn't look the way you did?" Anita asked.
"All the time," Misery said. "I hate the way I look."
[...]
"No, I didn't mean like that. I just meant---"
"Having to be afraid," Eliza said.
"Yeah."
No need to say more. No need to describe all the things you had to do to keep the eyes away. No need to discuss how hard it was to get the attention of the person you wanted attention from without being seen as desperate for everyone's attention. No need to catalog all the walls you had to put up; not just the walls that protected you from physical danger --- though there were plenty of those, too --- but the walls you had to build around your heart. They said no man was an island, and Anita figured that was probably true. But women were; they had to be. And even if someone bothered to sail over ad disembark, he'd soon discover that there was always a castle at the center of the island, surrounded by a deep moat, with a rickety drawbridge and archers manning the battlements and a big pot of oil poised above the gate, ready to boil alive anyone who dared to cross the threshold.”
Source: We All Looked Up
“Beauty always made a target of its possessor. Every other human quality was hidden easily enough – intelligence, talent, selfishness, even madness – but beauty would not be concealed.”
Source: We All Looked Up
“Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.”
Source: Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings
“Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down”
Source: On Beauty and Being Just
“Beauty always takes place in the particular.”
Source: On Beauty and Being Just
“Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.”
Source: Fifty Poems
“Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating the seriousness of existence and the complexities of the real life, extinguishing idleness in an entertaining fashion, and, where there is nothing good to be achieved, filling the place of vice better than vice itself.”
“Beauty and art pull reality out of concealment, drawing us away from routine and predictability, breaking patterns and shaking our habitual perceptions. They don’t soothe but confirm reality and reconfigure it. (“Absence of Beauty is like Hell“ )”
“Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.”
“Beauty and desire to possess have driven men mad for centuries.”
Source: The Improbability of Love
“Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus... . We must demand, at least, intention.”
“Beauty and fear make uneasy companions”
Source: Inkheart
“Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.”
Source: Marilyn Monroe in her own words
“Beauty and folly are generally companions.”
“Beauty and folly are old companions.”
Source: Wisdom and Wit from Poor Richard's Almanack
“Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.”
“Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.”
Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK
“Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we sense them.”
“Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.”
“Beauty and grace command the world.”
“Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.”
Source: Schriften
“Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.”
Source: The Works: Lothair ; 1
“Beauty and hype are always chosen over talent, but talent last longer and beauty and hype doesn't.”
“Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.”
Source: Sister Mine
“Beauty and inspiration can be found in any natural place of the earth.”
“Beauty, and its pursuit, is sustaining.”
Source: The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos
“Beauty and love are all my dream; They change not with the changing day; Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.”