B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either”
“Because abuse is a cycle, those who now occupy positions of power may well have brains so steeped in normalized bullying and abuse, that they can no longer think clearly.”
Source: The Bullied Brain: Heal Your Scars and Restore Your Health
“Because actually it's really hard to get things made. It takes years. To fight the fights you inevitably have to fight, even when you've produced Harry Potter, you'd better have the commitment and the passion to knock down walls, not take no for an answer.”
“Because Adam, God's deputy on earth, transfered his legal dominion to Satan, God became obligated to recognize Satan's legal standing.”
Source: That None Should Perish: How to Reach Entire Cities for Christ Through Prayer Evangelism
“Because addiction is a developmental problem, the developmental stage is important, things like employment are important, things like having a sense of purpose, meaning and hope are important, and this is why there's been so many spiritual cures for addiction, because those things often give people a sense of meaning and purpose.”
“Because adoption meets the needs of children so successfully, and because there have long been waiting lists of couples hoping to adopt babies and children, it would seem that the solution for abused or neglected kids was obvious. But not to the do-gooders. To remove a child from an abusive parent, sever the parent's parental rights, and permit the child to be adopted by a couple who would give the child a loving home began to seem too 'judgmental.'”
Source: Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us
“Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret us no fun. And although you dont want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.”
“Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.”
“Because after the haze of not being kissed cleared I was forced to face the facts that: 1. Jack was a very bad guy. 2. Jack had threatened Fred. 3. Just thinking that he was going to kiss me made me tingly everywhere 4. In a way no other guy had 5. And that was without our mouths even touching 6. Which meant that 7. If they did 8. Wooohoo baby! 9. Except that it did not matter 10. At all 11. Because he was plotting against fred 12. And I was complicit in whatever he planned if I didn't tell Mr. Curtis 13. And I was trapped in a boat with a woman singing showtunes.”
“Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past the moment. Jacking off. Television. Denial.”
Source: Choke: A Novel
“Because again, if Lucifer can make an aberration seem normal- or better yet, evil seem normal, he has made striking inroads.”
“Because AI was trained to analyze people-not to understand them.”
Source: THE CONSCIOUS CORPORATION: Building Soulful AI Workplaces in the Age of Automation | Reinventing Leadership, Work, and Technology through Conscious Design.
“Because ain’t that white people for you, wondering if they are happy enough.”
Source: The Help
“Because Ajamu Baraka speaks in the language of his community, and makes no bones about it, he really invites in a whole new demographic of voters who have been locked out? - African-American and black and brown people and indigenous people? - who have felt like this system has no place for them. And he is unapologetic about standing up for the rights of the oppressed people and against colonialism and against imperialism.”
“Because Al-Qaeda has been a non-state centered organisation, many of these scenarios do not exactly apply. These are not wars between states. And yet, it seems to me that we make a mistake if we accept the view that states are fighting terrorism, since we have abundant evidence for accepting the idea of state terrorism, and what is most urgent is to track and expose how state terrorism operates under the rubric of "democracy."”
“Because all actions and expressions stem from the mind, it is vital to know the mind as well as decide in what way we’ll use it. Everyone has heard of psychosomatic illness, and most of us acknowledge that psychosomatic sicknesses can and do occur. But what about psychosomatic wellness? How many of us have considered if it’s possible to stay healthy or cure various maladies with the positive use of the mind? And if we have thought of this, have we done much more than simply consider the idea?”
“Because all actions and expressions stem from the mind, it is vital to know the mind as well as decide in what way we'll use it. Everyone has heard of psychosomatic illness, and most of us acknowledge that psychosomatic sicknesses can and do occur. But what about psychosomatic wellness?”
“Because all bad little vampires see me in the end”
Source: Kiss the Dead: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Because all books are forbidden when a country turns to terror. The scaffolds on the corners, the list of things you may not read. These things always go together.”
Source: The Queen's Fool
“Because all existence is founded upon the ever-present state of union, everything already exists in a state of tranquility. However, this state of tranquility is masked from us by our assumption that there is a separation, that there is a problem.”
“Because all her feelings for him – hot and beautiful in her heart – turned to gobbledygook in her mouth.”
Source: Eleanor & Park
“Because all it takes are a string of “some days” that she chooses to keep fighting, “some days” where she’s not defeated by discouragement, “some days” when she silences the voices in her head telling her that she wasn’t meant for this. Some days she feels comforted in the fact that someday, this will all feel okay.”
“Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.”
Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., Now First Collected: Miscellaneous works
“Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence”
Source: The Witch of Portobello
“Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena”
“Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.”
“Because all of us are so ready to talk about the world we live in. We are ready to have a publishing industry that is of that world.”
“Because all of us believe and understand in the fabric of the common bond of why we call ourselves American is to care for the men and women who wear the uniform; and when they take off the uniform, we care for them when they are veterans.”
“Because all the good people have died, yet still I breathe. I must honor them and their deaths. Make them mean something. --Reynir Galtung”
Source: Kingdom of Claw
“Because all the monsters have been let out of their cages tonight, no matter what court they belong to. So I may roam wherever I wish until the dawn.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“Because all the movies that we tell ourselves we can't make - ballets, westerns, dramas, everything that are the hardest things to make - those are the movies that are not only winning awards which is fantastic, but also those movies that are commercial. We won't see a fascinating season like this for a while.”
“Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.”
“Because all the societies, all the nations, all the cultures, have taken it for granted that the individuals exist for them, not vice-versa. To me, just the opposite is the case: the society exists for the individual, the culture exists for the individual, the nation exists for the individual. Everything can be sacrificed, but the individual cannot be sacrificed for anything. Individuality is the very flowering of existence - nothing is higher than it. But no culture, no society, no civilization is ready to accept a simple truth.”
“Because all the things God isn't for me," she said, "you are. Because of you I see Him every day. So start talking lizardman, but I warn you, you've got a hard talk ahead of you if you're going to convince me there's no God after He gave you to me.”
Source: The Last Hour of Gann
“Because all the waters of the ocean won't fill a bucket with a hole in it.
And that's their fall, and that's their fellowship. Desire. The hole in the bucket: the gulf of yearning into which the soul empties itself.”
Source: Lucifer, Book One
“Because all the ways we're not normal are the way our normal homes want us to be.”
Source: Mislaid in Parts Half-Known
“Because all things are necessary to man's complete unfoldment, all things in human life are the work of God.”
Source: The Selected Teachings of Wallace D. Wattles
“Because all writers are human beings first and writers second, my guess is that any advice for living with a writer is about the same as advice for living with a plumber or a refrigerator salesperson.”
“Because ALS is underfunded, patients have had no option but to fade away and die. That is not OK.”
“Because also, sometimes things that are really funny on the day, when you look at them in post can feel too broad, you know? Sometimes not, but it's kind of weird how that can change.”
“Because alters often do not reveal themselves early in therapy, and it may take several years for a therapist to observe most of the alters...”
“Because ALWAYS, even in the darkest moments, in moments of sin, in moments of weakness, in moments of failure, I have seen Jesus, and I trusted Him... He has not left me alone.”
“Because America is such a big country, I can understand that if you don't travel you don't really understand what is going on. I get it. I tell myself I know all about America, but I don't; I know L.A. and New York.”
“Because America isn't perfect, it must be evil. Because Marxist regimes make claims of perfection, they must be good. ... Remind me again, was it John Ashcroft or Fidel Castro who put H.I.V. sufferers in concentration camps?”
“Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work.”
“Because an illusion is an illusion. Reality always exists despite the facade.”
Source: Pivot Point
“Because Ana meant something. He felt it. Deep, burning, dawning like a sunrise. Ana meant something and he was not sure what to call it. But it was something, and it was expanding. It was a light.”
Source: Heart of Iron
“Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.”
Source: Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation
“Because animals seem to dwell in the present moment,
because their own presence is so instinctive,
their attention so unwavering, the offer us
a different kind of compassion than humans do.
Anyone is lucky to have both human and
animal comfort in their lives.”
Source: Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals
“Because answers are inert things that stop inquiry. They make you think you have finished looking. But you are never finished. There are always discoveries that will turn everything you think you know on its head and that will make you ask all over again: Who are we?”
Source: Mary Coin: A Novel