B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Because I am about to be devoured by poodles," I quip. "Remember me always, my love.”
Source: Red Glove
“Because I am all too human, I don't always do the right thing, so how can I expect others to perform perfectly on the issues that are my top priority? I don't mean that we shouldn't try to do our best, but judgment and recrimination are such heavy weights. I find that accepting that we are all fallible lightens my load.”
“Because I am an African I reserve the right to say that Africa does not exist simply to make people in this country [the UK], or anywhere else in the developed world, feel good about themselves.”
“Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.”
“Because I am an inhuman monster, I tend to be logical.”
Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter
“Because I am committed to the truth of Scripture, I must try to understand what Scripture says, even if it transcends my own experience.”
Source: Gift and Giver
“Because I am female, I’m expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.”
Source: We Should All Be Feminists
“Because I am for them, Commander, because their ancestors stood up to that Nazi, Bligh, just like I would be for one little Jew, terrified and hungry, crossing the Pyrenees to get away to freedom from the Gestapo. One little Jew. You wouldn't have him in your house. He stinks, he has lice. But, you know what, Commander? I am for him, every time.” And he would punch me in the shoulder and lug his M-1 up onto the ridge, night after night.”
“Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, its true.”
“Because I am greedy for the sight of you. Because the prospect of facing this war, this loss, without you fills me with fear. Because I find I don't want to fight for a future if I can't find a way to make a future with you. But he was a king and she was his general and he could say none of those things.”
Source: Rule of Wolves
“Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair.”
“Because I am in love with you. Because I cannot be around you for fear you will finally see what is written across my heart. Because the pain of you is one I cannot bear”
Source: And I Darken
“Because I am, just as you are you. We don’t always get to pick who we are, Shelly Wynn, but we can choose to celebrate it.”
Source: Lights Out: Book 2
“Because I am known in the horror genre now, I try and do at least one horror movie a year for my fans, my fans have been so good to me.”
“Because I am not a monster or a goddess; I am not a prophet or a princess, a gorgon or a priestess. I am not Aphrodite or Athena, Arachne or Medusa. I did not emerge from a seashell, or the inside of a head; I do not have to weave my story, over and over again, and it is not--and never should be--told by other people.
My fate is not written in time, or sand, or stars, or in a tapestry, or a spider's web, and it never actually was.
I am Cassandra: the future was always in me.”
Source: Cassandra in Reverse
“Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.”
“Because I am not yet living up to what Jesus expects me to be in those red letters in the Bible, I always define myself as somebody who is saved by God's grace and is on his way to becoming a Christian. (...) Being saved is trusting in what Christ did for us, but being Christian is dependent on the way we respond to what he did for us.”
Source: Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?
“Because I am really successful and work on the sets throughout the day. I had sex with a variety of male models. If my spouse accepts all of this, he will be unconcerned if he discovers I cheated on him at some point in the future. That is how much he cares for me. Never in my wildest dreams did I consider defrauding him. When something becomes legal, it is common for people to lose interest in it.”
Source: The Pink Cadillac
“Because I am so intensely identified with opinion and analysis and contextualization, I think I just need, for my own psychological benefit, a small island in which I can stand and say, 'I'm going to sit this one out.'”
“Because I am still a little girl who believes in Santa and the tooth fairy and you.”
“Because I am terrified by what I want: for him, and worst of all, from him.
Because I do want. I'm not even sure what, exactly, but the want is there, just like the hate and anger were there before. But this is not a tower. It is an endless, tunneling pit; it drives deep, and opens a hole inside me.”
Source: Pandemonium
“Because I am untrained I approach my designs in an unconstrained way and I feel a freedom in this. It is unconventional but it means outcomes are not limited by traditional boundaries.”
“Because I became a refugee in Macau during 1941, we had this war in Hong Kong, I fought for the government as an air raid warden for 15 days. Our government surrendered, Hong Kong Government surrendered, so I took a junk and came to Macau in 16 hours and I was a refugee, so that's why I was so much indebted to Macau.”
“Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work. A land full of places that are not worth caring about will soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.”
“Because I believe actually the more you do something, the less frightening it becomes because you start to realize the outcome is not as important as you think.”
“Because I believe in a God of absolute and unbounded love, therefore I believe in a loving anger of His which will and must devour and destroy all which is decayed, monstrous, abortive in His universe till all enemies shall be put under His feet, and God shall be all in all.”
Source: Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Large Edition)
“Because I believe in my ... proud citizen of this country should be doing. And that is to try and put in as much as he takes out. I guess it's to the hard knocks of life that I attribute this conclusion.”
“Because I believe psychedelics are a kind of higher dimensional sectioning of reality, I think they give the kind of stereoscopic vision necessary to hold the entire hologram of what's happening in your mind. The old paradigm is gone.”
“Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.”
“Because I believe that I know about that aspect of hip-hop better than any one else, I'm trying my best in order to be the most real I can in this situation.”
“Because I believe that some good can come out of the crisis of infidelity, I have often been asked, "So, would you recommend an affair to a struggling couple?" My response? A lot of people have positive, life-changing experiences that come along with terminal illness. But I would not recommend having an affair than I would recommend getting cancer.”
Source: The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity
“Because I believe that the future of the music lies in the Internet. It can be sold on the Internet.”
“Because I believe there is nothing so self-destroying, and no emotion quite so despicable, as jealousy.”
Source: MY COUSIN RACHEL
“Because I came in second place, it makes me want to work harder”
“Because I came into acting late, my references come from real life. That's my biggest inspiration. It's probably the reason I moved back to New York. I'm just a lot more inspired by real life than I am by depictions of real life.”
“Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.”
“Because I can.”
Source: Heart of Obsidian
“Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them.”
Source: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
“Because I can go to Vegas and make the money I do, I'm able to spend a lot more time producing music that I love.”
“Because I can isolate and be a bit of a loner, [my ideal] is finding some sense of community where I'm one of many and where my skills are equally as important and valuable.”
“Because I can only love you entirely. With everything I am, and everything I ever will be. Body, mind, heart, soul.” - Victor Bramwell, Earl of Rycliff.”
“Because I can't help doing it," he said with a shrug. "And hey, if I keep loving you, maybe you'll eventually crack and love me too. Hell, I'm pretty sure you're already half in love with me."
"I am not! And everything you just said is ridiculous. That's terrible logic."
Adrian returned to his crossword puzzle. "Well, you can think what you want, so long as you remember-no matter how ordinary things seem between us-I'm still here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy, evil or otherwise, ever will."
"I don't think you're evil."
"See? Things are already looking promising.”
Source: The Indigo Spell
“Because I can tell you happy endings do not occur when there are three people involved in a relationship story. Someone gets hurt. Always.”
Source: The Love of a Lifetime
“Because I can't handle the nightmares. Not without you.”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“Because I can't hit bottom, I can't be saved.”
Source: Fight Club
“Because I can't seem to escape it. It's a way for me to address and counter my questions about what it means to be human, or, in my case a Dominican human who grew up in New Jersey.”
“Because I cannot flatter and look fair,
Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog,
Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,
I must be held a rancorous enemy.”
Source: Richard III
“Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day.”
“Because I cannot sleep I make music at night.”
“Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.”
Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views