B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Because everyone's, you know, Japanese. You'd have to hate everyone. It feels like everyone's on the same team here.”
Source: Supremacist
“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.”
“Because everyone who try a-go to church, and they were trying to teach but they weren't teaching, they was brainwashing. Since I would never call that teaching.”
“Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.”
“Because everything of value that we will know in this life comes from our relationships with those around us. Because there is nothing material that measures against the intangibles of love and friendship.”
Source: Passage to Dawn: The Legend of Drizzt
“Because everything scares me, because both fear and desire are busy equivocating with each other, with me”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.”
“Because everything was flying out of control. Because she was right - I wanted to trust her but I didn't. Because when I left a week ago, she had kissed me.
Because I so stupidly loved her.”
Source: The Beauty of Darkness
“Because everything we do and everything we are is in jeopardy, and because the peril is immediate and unremitting, every person is the right person to act and every moment is the right moment to begin.”
“Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.”
“Because everything worth having hurts.”
“Because evil, my dear child, can be done to anyone and by everyone, but good can only be done to those who need it.”
Source: Pirandello's One-Act Plays.
“Because," explained Mary Rommely simply, "the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out by believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination. I, myself, even in this day and at my age, have great need of recalling the miraculous lives of the Saints and the great miracles that have come to pass on earth. Only by having these things in my mind can I live beyond what I have to live for.”
Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Because failure isn't an option if success is just a matter of more effort.”
Source: A Dog's Purpose: A Novel for Humans
“Because failure works double time, to get success, work triple time.”
“Because faithfulness is not a human question, but a divine one.”
Source: The Secret Scripture
“Because falling in love doesn't have to mean dropping your best friend in the process.”
Source: All That Glitters
“Because falling in love is like rain. You can't always predict it and when you do it might never appear, but you can always see the signs of it before it falls.”
Source: Sweet Ache
“Because family and friends are the foundation of who you are, this is a realm where no excuses should exist. Give them your all without excuses.”
Source: The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
“Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.”
Source: Conversations with Ernest Hemingway
“Because fate would not slight me so unspeakably. I'd seek a noon-day sun if I were paired with one such as you."
"Such as me," she repeated blandly. She'd been mocked too often over her lifetime to take offense. Her skin was as thick as armor.
"Yes, you. An ignorant, mortal Kmart checkout girl." He took the sharpest knife from his place setting, absently turning it between his left thumb and forefinger.
"Kmart? I should have been so lucky. Those jobs were hard to come by. I worked at my uncle's outfitter shop."
"Then you're even worse. You're an outfitter checkout girl with aspirations for Kmart."
"Still better than a demon.”
Source: Lothaire
“Because fear is insatiable, everything that is insatiable is born of fear.”
“Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.”
Source: Inkheart
“Because federal hate crime laws criminalize thoughts, they are incompatible with a free society.”
“Because feeding grains to farmed animals is wasteful, only 37% of current croplands are needed if we shift to a vegan diet”
Source: Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice
“Because feeling love does make you feel superior. Until you find out you aren't loved back.”
Source: The Descendants
“Because feelings, emotional and physical, are so foregrounded in sexual encounters, the orgy is soon the most social of human interchanges, where awareness and communication, whether verbal or no, hold all together or sunder it.”
Source: The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village
“Because female intellect is weaker than men.” Said the elderly scholar.
“Says who, sir?”
“It is written in the hymns.”
“May I ask, who wrote those hymns?”Asked the girl.
“The hymns were written by our forefathers.” Said the elderly scholar.
“By forefathers you mean, our male ancestors?” Asked the girl, again.”
Source: A Tale of a Fairy Tale and other stories
“Because feminism, contrary to popular belief, isn’t about hating on guys like me. It’s about all of us working toward equality, together”
Source: Not Here to Be Liked
“Because feminism, contrary to popular belief, isn’t about hating on guys like me. It’s all about all of us working toward equality, together.”
Source: Not Here to Be Liked
“Because Filipinos are very creative and assiduous people, they will always find a way to make things happen.”
Source: First Filipino World Records
“Because finally, 'the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience' is held by the same tenure with all his other rights. If we recur to its origin, it is equally the gift of nature; if we weigh its importance, it cannot be less dear to us; if we consider the 'Declaration of those rights which pertain to the good people of Virginia, as the basis and foundation of government,' it is enumerated with equal solemnity, or rather studied emphasis.”
Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
“Because for all my massive appetite, I cannot cook to save my life. When Grant came to my old house for the first time, he became almost apoplectic at the contents of my fridge and cupboards. I ate like a deranged college frat boy midfinals. My fridge was full of packages of bologna and Budding luncheon meats, plastic-wrapped processed cheese slices, and little tubs of pudding. My cabinets held such bounty as cases of chicken-flavored instant ramen noodles, ten kinds of sugary cereals, Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, and cheap canned tuna. My freezer was well stocked with frozen dinners, heavy on the Stouffer's lasagna and bags of chicken tenders. My garbage can was a wasteland of take-out containers and pizza boxes. In my defense, there was also always really good beer and a couple of bottles of decent wine.
My eating habits have done a pretty solid turnaround since we moved in together three years ago. Grant always leaved me something set up for breakfast: a parfait of Greek yogurt and homemade granola with fresh berries, oatmeal that just needs a quick reheat and a drizzle of cinnamon honey butter, baked French toast lingering in a warm oven. He almost always brings me leftovers from the restaurant's family meal for me to take for lunch the next day. I still indulge in greasy takeout when I'm on a job site, as much for the camaraderie with the guys as the food itself; doesn't look good to be noshing on slow-roasted pork shoulder and caramelized root vegetables when everyone else is elbow-deep in a two-pound brick of Ricobene's breaded steak sandwich dripping marinara.”
Source: Recipe for Disaster
“Because for Gonzo, anything which may explode at any moment is clearly a girl.”
Source: The Gone-Away World
“Because for her, money isn’t the issue. This is about revenge, payback, even worse, justice.”
Source: Betrayal of Faith
“Because for me it is almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us. And it keeps a person frozen in their seat, it keeps you frozen in your hole you’re sitting in.”
“Because for me to go fully experimental, it would turn into an artist book actually. And I'm not opposed to that. But I wanted to toy with the conventions of traditional narrative and sometimes to do that all the way, you have to actually utilize traditional narrative, I think - or it's one way to do it.”
“Because for me, '60s pop music is amongst the most complicated or complex music because it has so many resonances which strike you. The music itself is often simple, but the way that I interpret it, or the way I think it's interpreted culturally, is very complex.”
“Because for most of us, suicide is a moment we'll never choose. It's only for people like Lexy, who know they might choose eventually, who believe they have a choice to make.”
Source: The Dogs of Babel
“Because for now, the world outside didn't exist. There was only her. For the first time in a long time, I felt as if I wasn't lost. I wasn't broken. I was exactly where I was meant to be.”
Source: The Bond That Burns
“Because for some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die. They are full of all the things that you don't get in real life-wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. And quality of attention: we may notice amazing details during the course of a day but we rarely let ourselves stop and really pay attention. An author makes you notice, makes you pay attention, and this is a great gift. My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I'm grateful for it the way I'm grateful for the ocean. Aren't you?”
Source: Bird by Bird
“Because for that day, I really did become Lulu. Maybe not from the film or the real Louise Brooks, but my own idea of what Lulu represented. Freedom. Daring. Adventure. Saying yes.”
Source: Just One Day
“Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.”
“Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.”
“Because forgiveness isn't about deserving. Everyone qualifies for it, despite the terrible things they do.”
Source: Heirs of Secrets
“Because Fox News is allegedly biased in favor of conservatives, critics whine like children whose lunch money got snatched. Conservatives have been pummeled for decades. Now that Fox News and conservative talk radio give people alternatives, critics squeal as if being sodomized.”
“Because freedom and liberty and equality are as vital as breath, we only notice their absence when we are left gasping when the colors of diversity and individual liberty are drained from the world around us.”
Source: Bugspray
“Because Freedom is the most important thing on life, let me Be.”
“Because freedom, it turned out, wasn't like a new shoe: you didn't need to break it in. It felt comfortable the first time you tried it on. It wasn't the present that pinched, it was the past.”
Source: Visions and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDS
“Because French is the language of love, my boy. Something you should keep in mind, but will soon forget.”
Source: The Brothers O'Brien