B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.”
“Because I have confidence in the power of truth and in the spirit, I believe in the future of mankind. Affirmation of the world and of life contains within itself an optimistic willing and hoping which can never be lost. It is, therefore, never afraid to face the dismal reality and to see it as it really is.”
Source: An Anthology
“Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.”
Source: Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography
“Because I have dreams and in those dreams I see the stars”
“Because I have experienced pain, I am able to embrace the pain of others. Because I have made mistakes, I am able to forgive others their mistakes. May my suffering become the seed of compassion”
Source: Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection
“Because I have forgiven my past, and God has forgiven my past, no person can make me denounce my past. It made me who I am today, and the choices I make from this moment on are what will ultimately define me.”
“Because I have known despair, I value hope. Because I have
tasted frustration, I value fulfillment. Because I have been lonely, I value love.”
“because I have learned the hard way how deadly these beauties can be.”
Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
“Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.”
“Because I have no actual sisters, it is my friends from Ames who’ve exposed me to every facet of womanhood.”
Source: The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship
“Because I have no boobs. My ears stand out, and I have freckles all over me. (Grace) Boobs? (Julian) Breasts. (Grace) You have very nice breasts. (Julian) Thanks. What about you? (Grace) I have no breasts. (Julian)”
“Because I have no interest in death, I feel that death should have no interest in me.”
Source: De hel en andere bestemmingen: Memoires 2001-2019
“Because I have no natural gifts, shall I on that account give up my discipline? Far be it from me! Epictetus will not be better than Socrates, but if only I am not worse, that suffices me. For I shall not be a Milo, either, and yet I do not neglect my body, nor a Croesus, and yet I do not neglect my property, nor, in a word, is there any other field in which we give up the appropriate discipline merely from despair of attaining the highest.”
Source: Epictetus. The Discourses as Reported By Arrian. Vol. I. Books 1 and 2. With an English Translation By W. A. Oldfather
“Because I have nobody and nowhere to go, I’m forced to think of everyone everywhere I am.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“Because I have nothing else to live for. You told me of your brother’s betrayal. Imagine your own father calling out his hounds to kill your infant daughter and husband. Imagine what it was like to watch them die and then be taken and punished for something you didn’t do. To be stripped of your dignity and emotions because your father was embarrassed by a stupid, insignificant dream he’d had and he blamed everyone who walks in the dreams for it. You feel your pain, Aiden. I feel mine. (Leta)”
“Because I have so much life on my pitches, I can get away with getting too much of the plate every now and then.”
“Because I have some amazing shoes and bags and stories that need to be appreciated.”
“Because I have something to say doesn't mean everyone has to take it too seriously or get too upset that it rubs them the wrong way.”
“Because I have subjected my colleagues (if I am allowed to assign such an appellation to those whose practices I so often find deficient) to a direct fire-line of criticism, and I understand fully the pain such treatment can inflict, I will assure all that I take pains to be as fair, thorough, and helpful as possible. Nowhere in my criticism will you find spoilers (as so many reviews contain) and always will you come across examples to back up my claims. Never will you see slander sprung from resentment, personal vendetta, bias or gratuitous pejorative.”
“Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.”
“Because I have the scar, people are like, "Who did you play in the film?," and I tell them, "The girl with the scar," and then they're like, "Oh, yeah!" I think most people expect me to have the scar.”
“Because I have this thing about birthdays--they always remind me of death and forced jollity.”
Source: On Love
“Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.”
“Because I haven't yet learned the simplest and most important thing of all: the world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.”
Source: How to Build a Girl
“Because I haven't been in a band, I wasn't in that zone. I'm just a mom that needs to pick up her kids from school. I just don't remember what it is you do, what you wear. Even just doing photo sessions where you think, "I just don't remember how to do this."”
“Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating.”
“Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.”
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
“Because I hold an Israeli passport, I have a share in all the wrongs that are done to the Palestinians. . . . I want to be able to say that I did all I could to prevent the bloodshed.”
“Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)
“Because I just don't really care about what the liquid in my glass says about me anymore. I'd like to tell you it's because sobriety cured my need for specialness. I'd like to tell you I invented the stapler and can start fires with my mind. But no.”
Source: Nothing Good Can Come from This
“Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.”
“Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.”
“Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.”
“Because I knew I had got success at Ranji level, I was confident I would get some success in international cricket too.”
“Because I knew it wasn't for forever." Grace touched his hair and he bent his head to kiss her, quiet as a secret.”
“Because I knew so much about him, because I had been close to him, I couldn't bring the various fragments of my experience with him into a single coherent image. The truth was mobile and contradictory, and I was willing to live with that.”
“Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.”
“Because I know, deep down, I am made of strong stuff. Rebuilt with it, at least, the way we all are, over the years, with age and experience, skin thickening, heart softening, patched up double in the places prone to breakage. A sum of all the things that have hurt us, scared up, sheltered and delighted us.”
Source: Dear Emmie Blue
“Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.”
“Because I know it in my bones. You are the only female I desire, the only water that will quench my thirst, the only sun that will warm my skin, the only lips that were made for mine.”
Source: Impulse
“Because I know love,
And you clearly do not.”
Source: Untold Journeys
“Because I know something that you don't know. I know that this is the worst experience of your life, but I also know that someday you'll move past it and you'll be fine. And helping somebody likej you through the worst experience of her life is incredibly gratifying.”
“Because I know that hope and fear are connected, I put my mask of hope on.”
“Because I know that I am not my own master, I offer my heart as a true sacrifice to the Lord.”
“Because I know that the early Greeks and Romans and the early Europeans at that age did not see racism as we see it now - because racism was created to justify slavery to build the capital for capitalism - and back in the day they respected talent over race. We had an African Pope in the late 5th century, we had an African Emperor of Rome, and early church Fathers were black.”
“Because I know that time is always time
And place is always and only place
And what is actual is only for one time
And only for one place
I rejoice that things are as they are and
I renounce the blessed face
And renounce the voice
Because I cannot hope to turn again
Consequently I rejoice, having to construct something
Upon which to rejoice”
Source: Poems
“Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place.”
Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot
“Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are.”
Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot
“Because I know this feeling sweeping through me all too well, the feeling that all my effort, all I have worked for, means nothing. That everything and everyone is a lie. That all is cruel and unforgiving and that there is no justice.”
Source: A Reaper at the Gates
“Because I know this planet. You don't understand? Think how it is. Beneath the surface there are rocks, dirt, sediment, sand. That's the planet's memory, the picture of its history. It's the same with humans. The dog remembers the wolf. Each universe revolves around a core of being, and outward from that core go all of the memories, right out to the surface.”
Source: Children of Dune