B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Because 98 percent of our ideas are not great ideas, or everyone would be a billionaire. So yeah. That's something people have had a lot of experience in: being told our idea is bad or our performance is bad. I think that's the one common thread between all working actors is that they have a pretty thick skin - or you'd like to hope. You're used to rejection, that's for sure.”
“Because [Donald Trump] so clearly - through his words and actions and the type of people that turn up at his rallies - represents people who are not the middle, not the upper middle educated class, there is a fear of seeming to be associated in any way with them, a social fear that lowers the class status of anyone who can be accused of somehow assisting Trump in any way, including any criticism of Hillary Clinton.”
“Because [Donald] Trump sticks to his script and was there to open his golf course, that's what he first began talking about. He didn't open with a statement on the Brexit vote. And so here comes the media - right on cue - and any allies they have, once again lashing out at Trump as incompetent, unaware, insensitive.”
“Because [Russel Westbrook] is so rare and impacts the game in so many different ways, you see the usage and the amount of time he's playing and say, 'is this sustainable?' I look at it the other way. Are we playing the right way, are we playing together as a team, and what are his minutes like? This is not a guy that's playing 42 minutes a night. When he goes out there he's going to play to who he is, and I think he also understands that in order for our team to be the best we can be he's got to incorporate and help everybody grow as players.”
“Because [writers] Dan Weiss and David Benioff have done such a great job in adapting them, that's what we work with. It serves no purpose to anybody for actors to come onto a set with a well-thumbed copy of the source material and start querying why this or that line has been left out of the script. It's probably been left out for a good reason.”
“Because a child is bound to grow, society is intent upon cultivating the child’s mind to mature into a very specific type of responsible person. Children take great pleasure in small things that have no practical purpose in their dreamy world where they can be as wild as wind. Each year a part of the child dies, as it is burden with adult responsibilities.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Because a door slammed shut, we assume that our dreams were slammed shut with it. Yet before we surrender to a closed door, it might be wise to take a moment and consider the fact that any dream is far too big not to have a couple of back doors.”
“Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.”
Source: A Canticle For Leibowitz
“Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.”
“Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.”
Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son
“Because a garden mean constantly making choices, it offers almost limitless possibilities for surprise and satisfaction.”
“Because a girl goes missing in this town and it’s Jasper Jones who is held and threatened and belted for days, but somehow those monsters will arouse no suspicion.”
“Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home; because she should not have an unclean home, she should have a free and leisured mother; because she should have a free mother, she should not have an usurious landlord; because there should not be a usurious landlord, there should be a redistribution of property; because there should be a redistribution of property, there shall be a revolution.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Because a God who is ultimately most focused on his own glory will be about the business of restoring us, who are all broken images of him. His glory demands it. So we should be thankful for a self-sufficient God whose self-regard is glorious.”
“Because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must also be a Someone - not the blind, automatic forces of nature, as philosophies like naturalism and materialism tell us.”
“Because a jackass brays doesn't mean you have to take it to heart.”
“Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.”
“Because a lack of basic financial literacy keeps our working class working.”
Source: Rich AF: The Winning Money Mindset That Will Change Your Life
“Because a life without hope isn’t a life lived at all.”
Source: The House in the Cerulean Sea
“Because a lost little girl from Cairo thought she was living in some sort of fairy tale. And because for all her supposed cleverness, she couldn’t see that the dashing hero who saved her was its monster.”
Source: The Kingdom of Copper
“Because a lot of straight people think I'm nuts.”
“Because a love as powerful as yours may bring hope to others, but despair will always be one step behind you.”
Source: Shadows of Reality
“Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“because a morsel of rice
is God to the hungry. Rain is
God to the dry mouth of earth.”
“Because a part of the entire [Donald] Trump experience or whatever this last six months [of 2015] has been sort of feels like we`ve been living in a dream, but this is all actually happening.I mean, it`s great to be a political journalist in this time. It`s about the rhetoric. You hear his supporters on the campaign trail say we`re glad he`s not politically correct.”
“Because a person can fail another person and still do right by them. It happens all the time. This is the way of relationships. This is the way of family.”
Source: Deluge
“Because a person chooses to leave their home country and come to the United States does not necessarily mean they have the right to demand that their father or their other extended family members be allowed to come if they don't otherwise meet the standard.”
“Because a person couldn't ever be good and evil at once.
Little girl, don't you know? The world is made up of shades of grey.”
Source: Candidate
“Because a poem is not written while running or while answering the phone. It's written in whatever minutes one has. Sometimes you have half an hour.”
“Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one.”
Source: Unravel Me
“Because a real kiss, a kiss that two real people choose to give each other - it's something that can't be filmed or photographed or drawn, or even described with words. Because a kiss isn't what it looks like or how it feels. A real kiss happens down deep inside of two hearts at the same time. It's hidden away. A real kiss is invisible.”
Source: Things That Are
“Because a rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose.”
“Because a shadow was a thing that defined itself, and Nettie didn't have to fit anyone else's shape.”
Source: Wake of Vultures
“Because a song can take you back to that moment when a beautiful love affair peaked in flowers and fire, when heaven witnessed the explosion of two hearts, wild in emotions, so they say, music takes you to where time stands still.”
“Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you”
Source: Furies of Calderon
“Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.”
Source: The Magus
“Because a storm is coming and I need to be prepared before it gets here.”
Source: Kindred
“Because a superior fried-chicken restaurant is often the institutional extension of a single chicken-obsessed woman, I realize that, like a good secondhand bookstore or a bad South American dictatorship, it is not easily passed down intact.”
“Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity.”
“Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.”
Source: The Confessions of Saint Augustine
“Because a thing is going strong now, it need not go strong forever . . . This craze for motion has only set in during the last hundred years. It may be followed by a civilization that won't be a movement, because it will rest on the earth. All the signs are against it now, but I can't help hoping, and very early in the morning in the garden I feel that out house is the future as well as the past.”
Source: Howards End
“Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.”
“Because a true sense of purpose is deeply emotional, it serves as a compass to guide us to act in a way completely consistent with our values and beliefs. Purpose does not need to involve calculations or numbers. Purpose is about the quality of life. Purpose is human, not economic.”
“Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.”
“Because A Walk To Remember had come out and it had made money and I got a lot of congratulations at that time as it happens out there.”
“Because a warrior of light knows that he has duties and responsibilities.”
“Because a woman brought death a bright Maiden overcame it, and so the highest blessing in all of creation lies in the form of a woman, since God has become man in a sweet and blessed Virgin.”
“Because a woman can live in one of two houses--- fear or love. It is impossible to live in both at the same time.”
Source: Honor
“Because a woman's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.”
Source: Disgrace
“Because a women's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.”
Source: Disgrâce