B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Because European countries now resolve differences through negotiation and consensus, there's sometimes an assumption that the entire world functions in the same way. But let us never forget ... beyond Europe's borders, in a world where oppression and violence are very real, liberation is still a moral goal, and freedom and security still need defenders.”
“Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.”
Source: Allegiant (Divergent Trilogy, Book 3)
“Because even after you swore you weren’t like the other, I didn’t realise you meant you were worse.”
Source: Imperfect Mortals : A Collection of Short Stories
“Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.”
“Because even if I’m angry with them, even if I don’t agree with the choices they made, I could never cast them away. Because they’re my family. And that bond will always mean more than blood.”
Source: A Destiny of Dragons
“Because even if I should speak, no one would believe me. And they would not believe me precisely because they would know that what I said was true.”
“Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.”
Source: Fever
“Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.”
Source: One Plus One
“Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you'd be okay.”
“Because even if they are doing something immoral, I'd be an idiot to start criticizing them for it if I wasn't perfect myself. Smoking is self-destructive. Drinking is self-destructive. Losing your temper and yelling at people is wrong. Lying is wrong. Cheating is wrong. Stealing is wrong. But people do that stuff all the time. Soon as I figure out how to be a perfect human being, then I'm qualified to go lecture other people about how they live their lives.”
“Because even if you buried yourself in guilt, you can't go back and change what happened.”
Source: The Secret to Letting Go
“Because even if you hate me, Roma Montagov, I still love you.”
Source: Our Violent Ends
“Because even if you spend your life chasing the immaterial, listening to the most exquisite classical music and getting drunk off of stunning vistas of mountains and waterfalls, all of it isn't worth a dime if you aren’t sharing it with someone. Everything amounts to that. True, we must experience most things in solitude to grow, create, destroy and grow again, but our pleasure and joy reaches a threshold in isolation. It is the worst thing to become an island. One must become the whole world.”
“Because even subversive sarcasm adds a cool-girl nonchalance, an updated, sharper version of the expectation that women be forever pleasant, even as we're eating shit.”
Source: Sex Object: A Memoir
“Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.”
“Because, even though love created wrecks of us all, it had to beat the barren wastelands that was utter loneliness.”
Source: Crux Untamed
“Because even though the portrait itself is interesting, I don’t look very favorable in it. I resemble Jesus Christ after twenty years of drinking absinthe. I have serious, sadly drooping eyes and the pale, emaciated face of a consumptive. Pastel colors have been set free, fluttering like butterflies. At first glance, they seem to have no fixed place on the canvas, only the gaze of the observer can pin them down. They are soft and resonate chromatically.”
Source: Adieu, Rimbaud!
“Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.”
“Because even though you're dating five other women, I think I'm cheating on you.”
“Because even when the secrets we hide in our pockets aren't our own, the weight of them can still be enough to drown us”
Source: Dark and Shallow Lies
“Because even when there is no hope, somehow you can still find a place to pin inside the things that you need.”
“Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard trying to distinguish between the author's persona and the poem's lyrical hero. As a rule, such distinctions are quite meaningless, if only because a lyrical hero is invariably an author's self-projection.”
“because every creature of the sea knows that the Alexes can't hold their breath as long as whales can.”
Source: Island of Legends
“Because every day of your life was written on God's calendar before you were born, everything that happens to you has spiritual significance.”
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
“Because every day you give your heart to someone, there's a chance you won't get it back. But every time they give you their heart in return ... it makes the risk totally worth the reward. We all take risks with love every day.”
Source: Take a Number
“Because every decision impacts everything that follows. Especially the wrong ones.”
Source: Westcott High
“Because every exchange is always a relationship, to get the most while giving the least is unjust, unethical, antisocial, abusive, perhaps 'evil.' Yet predatory commerce ("the free market" as it is euphemistically called) operates regularly on the principle of 'get the most and pay the least.”
“Because every joy will run out. And so will every life. And maybe that's what I mourn as my children grow: the fact that they and I and we will one day not be here at all. No one's getting out of here alive.”
Source: I Miss You When I Blink: Essays
“Because every man who fight monster become a monster too, and there be at least one woman in Kingston who think me is the killer of all things name hope.”
Source: A Brief History of Seven Killings
“Because every once in a while, when the clouds
are thickening and wishes are crowding you with what you think you need, you’ll forget what it’s like just to feel the spray of the sea on your face, to hear the rustle of pines, to inhale the scent of lavender from the
nearby farm.”
Source: Wild Wishes and Windswept Kisses
“Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, wound everything around you.”
“Because every portion of the body, mind, and spirit yearns for the integration of yin and yang, angelic intercourse is led by the spirit rather than the sexual organs. . . . Where ordinary intercourse unites sex organs with sex organs, angelic cultivation unites spirit with spirit, mind with mind, and every cell of one body with every cell of the other body.”
“Because every second feels so important. And because I'm so out of control, I can't help myself. I'm not even mine anymore, I'm yours... How could you want me like I want you?”
Source: Eleanor & Park
“Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others”
“Because every stone laid since Adam watched Lilith leave Eden has been with the sole intent of him never being shamed by a woman again. Ever since the first of days, woman was told she was here solely to serve and obey, to bend and twist, to hide the sharp tip of her tongue. God help her if she is a mirror. If she reflects back at them what they are without even trying.”
Source: Hex
“Because every time I closed my eyes, I saw the girl who made me want to be better. More.
I saw Emmy Scott.
Alex was like Damon. They loved me. They indulged my dark side.
They were too forgiving and too enabling.
They kept me from being lonely, but Emory taught me that not everything I wanted was going to come easy. That there were things I was going to have to fight for and there was pain in the world that my shallow lifestyle in high school kept me ignorant of.
She made me feel like a man.
Even though her words were sharp and the battle she constantly fought in her heart felt like a knife in my own, her eyes on me made me feel strong.
Her arms around me made me want to take on anything.”
Source: Nightfall
“Because every time I tried to erect a wall, he made me feel stupid for having one in the first place.”
Source: Fraternize
“Because every time someone finds a new animal, or a new amazing thing on earth, it means we haven't broken everything yet.”
Source: Magonia
“because everybody lies. It's part of living in society .”
“Because everybody lies. It's part of living in society. Don't get me wrong-I think it's necessary. The last thing anyone wants is to live in a society where total honesty prevails. Can you imagine the conversations? You're short and fat, one person might say, and the other might answer, I know. But you smell bad. It just wouldn't work. So people lie by omission all the time. People will tell you most of the story...and I've learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they're afraid." -Jo”
“Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I dont want us to forget Alaska, and I don't want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, we're trying to und3erstand how people answered that question and the question each of you posed in your papers--how different traditions have come to terms with what Chip, in his final, called 'people's rotten lots in life.”
“Because everyone has a natural yearning for completion, we are able to change and recreate ourselves endlessly.”
Source: The Call of Sedona: Journey of the Heart
“Because everyone is doing it doesn't make it right and because you stand out doesn't make it wrong. Just find a path that you can defend.”
“Because everyone is guilty for everyone else. For all the 'wee ones,' because there are little children and big children. All people are 'wee ones.' And I'll go for all of them, because there must be someone who will go for all of them.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
“Because everyone is incomplete, everybody is on a quest by hoping that their missing parts will be completed!”
“Because everyone is someone's child, every woman seems like someone's mother.”
“Because everyone is still treating me with kid gloves, Pigpen's driving me in his pickup truck, blasting music that's more screaming than music. I prefer electric guitar over voices, but it's not my fucking truck.”
Source: Walk the Edge
“Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?”
“Because everyone knows liberals have never been wrong about anything. You can ask them. Anytime.”
Source: Lone Survivor: The Incredible True Story of Navy SEALs Under Siege
“Because everyone loves a girlboss until she tries to tell you what to do.”
Source: Not Here to Be Liked