B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Because I made a promise to Dad, didn’t I? Swore blind I’d keep Winn with me, and that she’d be safe. We made a deal. And if I don’t
keep my part, then how do I know that Dad will keep his? How do I know that he’s definitely coming back?”
Source: While the Storm Rages
“Because I make films about eating disorders and sexual assault, people always come up to me and are like, "Are you okay?" like I'm a broken-down shell of a woman.”
“Because I might not always have you but I'll have the feeling of you for the rest of my life”
Source: I Wrote This For You
“Because I miss them. Because I need them. Because I love them.”
Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
“Because I missed being with Prince on that [stadium ], and it's a lesson that sometimes you have to push yourself a little harder for your friends.”
“Because I move around among people I get inspired by the people.”
“Because I need to feel something. Even if it's not as intense as I want it to be, it's still something…”
Source: Indigo Haze: Thug Love is the Best Love 2
“Because I needed these riches, fucking ached for them. Not because I had some poor, sick grandmama to look after or any nonsense like that. No, I needed riches for the best reason of all. Because I wanted them. I wanted the freedom they granted and the luxuries they provided. I hated the people who had so damn much because I was determined to prove that I was better than them, and I would do it in the simplest way I knew how – by being the man who had more.”
Source: A Game of Malice and Greed
“Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: here's one more place that can't hold me.”
Source: The Fountainhead
“Because I never set out to be an actress, I always feel so lucky and grateful. There are so many people who are really desperate to be stars, and it was completely the opposite for me - I fell into it.”
“Because I never thought the Lord would treat me any different from any other honest man or that I had an official position that compelled the Lord to help me in any other way than He would help any other man.”
“Because I never wanted you to know!' Alastair burst out. 'Because I wanted you to have a childhood, a thing I never had. I wanted you to be able to love and respect your father as I never could. Every time he made a mess, who do you think had to clean it up? Who told you Father was ill or sleeping when he was drunk? Who went out and fetched him when he passed out in a gin palace and smuggled him in through the back door? Who learned at ten years old to refill the brandy bottles with water each morning so no one would notice the levels had sunk—?' He broke off, breathing hard.”
Source: Chain of Gold
“Because I now realize, after all this time, I have never truly felt worthy of all that I have been given.”
“Because I practice often with my children at home.”
“Because I practiced good-for-nothing zazen with devotion, I felt my life was justified. Yet this intensity of practice was possible only when I was young, strong, and healthy. In this way I discovered arrogance in a deep layer of my mind.”
Source: The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
“Because I questioned myself and my sanity and what I was doing wrong in this situation. Because of course I feared that I might be overreacting, overemotional, oversensitive, weak, playing victim, crying wolf, blowing things out of proportion, making things up. Because generations of women have heard that they're irrational, melodramatic, neurotic, hysterical, hormonal, psycho, fragile, and bossy. Because girls are coached out of he womb to be non-confrontational, agreeable, solicitous, deferential, demure, nurturing, to be tuned in to others, and to shrink and shut up.”
Source: Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
“Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.”
“Because I realized during the past few days that I can’t leave doubt in anyone’s mind about to whom you belong. Especially not yours.”
Source: Secrets Of A Summer Night: Number 1 in series
“Because I realized I was falling for another guy, fifty-six.”
Source: Bittersweet
“Because I refuse to believe we become better by being hurt. Sometimes we just get hurt. And that's it.
This mind that bloomed roses from arsenic looks pretty to you and everyone else who doesn't live in it.
The roses are roses, but the arsenic is still arsenic.
And when my mind comes and kills me every night... I don't care if you like my mind.
I don't.”
Source: At 23
“Because I refuse to perform my music in a traditional sense of instrumentation, I don't have an amazing live stage spectacle to provide, and I don't want to go there. I don't see how the music would stay true to the spirit of the work.”
“Because I refused to live invincibly on all those days, I didn't get an alert, I wasted all those yesterdays and am completely out of tomorrows”
Source: They Both Die at the End
“Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.”
“Because I research sex addiction, the bulk of my friends on social media appear to be sex addicts.”
“Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that.”
“Because I see
A rainstorm in June
Just before the sun
The black of night
Just before the stars
And, girl, I see your ghost
Just before our dawn”
Source: My Butterfly
“Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.”
“Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you.”
Source: The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle
“Because I so stupidly loved her.”
Source: The Heart of Betrayal
“Because I started investing in wiser
relationships, I am now an absurdly wealthy woman—if blessings,
fulfillment & joy are measured as wealth.”
Source: The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave Female Entrepreneur
“Because I still love him. You can't just turn love off. You still feel it.”
Source: Take Me There
“Because I still walk through this life like a little boy in a museum, surrounded by the exhibits I've spent a lifetime studying, and when I finally come face-to-face with something or someone that has inspired me along the way, I am thankful. I am grateful.”
Source: The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
“Because I still would've been surrounded by idiots, and I wouldn't have been able to kill them," Professor Quirrell said mildly. "Killing idiots is my great joy in life, and I'll thank you not to speak ill of it until you've tried it for yourself.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.”
“Because I support the Second Amendment doesn't mean that I want people who shouldn't have guns to be able to threaten you, kill you or members of your family.”
“Because I support trans rights, I must be trans, because why would you care about something if it didn’t directly affect you?”
“Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others.”
“Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.”
“Because I take very seriously the idea that I can make an impact in the world, I hold back my voice so I can make more of an impact when I do use it. A cause like One Billion Rising is something I want to scream about, and I want you to take that scream seriously because I don't fall out of nightclubs. I don't have photographers capture me spending untold amounts on a handbag.”
“Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I've seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that's about it.”
“Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was... I think it felt like homework a bit for people.”
“Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever.”
“Because I think I saw you
In a sky full of shooting stars.”
“Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'”
“Because I think of novels as collaborative enterprises between the writer and the reader, all of my novels so far have ending with endings that maybe point in more than one direction, and that seems important to me because it seems important to me that after you've invested twenty or thirty hours of your imaginative life into this narrative that you have some stake in how it ends.”
“Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are in my bones.”
Source: Tiger Lily
“Because I think sins are things people individually carry, a burden that we ourselves make for our own fair share. Our sins become heavier the better our wisdom and common sense, and the greater our happiness.”
Source: 空の境界 上
“Because I think that by beauty, you don't just mean something that's pretty. You mean something that makes us human.”
Source: Love Letters to the Dead
“Because I think there are events of another category that are likewise not fixed in a causal chain: acts of volition. Free will is a kind of miracle; when we make a genuine choice, we bring about a result that cannot be reduce to the workings of physical law. Every act of volition is, like the creation of the universe, a first cause.”
Source: Omphalos
“Because I think there are events of another category that are likewise not fixed in a causal chain: acts of volition. Free will is a kind of miracle; when we make a genuine choice, we bring about a result that cannot be reduced to the workings of physical law. Every act of volition is, like the creation of the universe, a first cause.”
Source: Omphalos