B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Because if you walk into a room and notice what is missing from it,
It's still there, isn't it?
The first poem I wrote that wasn't about you was still about you.”
“Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.”
Source: Along for the Ride
“Because if you weren't born white, you were forced to see differences; or if you weren't born what they called normal, or if you got injured, then you were left to explore the world of the different.”
“Because if you're going to lose, lose. I'm serious.”
“Because if you're gonna make someone choose, then you shouldn't be surprised when they don't choose you.”
“Because if you're prepared and you know what it takes, it's not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there.”
“Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited time, you rush to the page trying to get something down in the little bit of fragment of time that you have, and you may write a great deal that way.”
“Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.”
“Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.”
“Because image traffic has become so heavy and so continuous, it now seems as if these millions of images came into being by themselves, without the agency of a person.”
“Because imaginary time behaves like another direction in space, histories in imaginary time can be closed surfaces, like the surface of the Earth, with no [existential] beginning or end.”
“Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East to West or from island to island. Even when you arrive, you're still going back and forth; your children are going round and round. There's no proper term for it - original sin seems too harsh; maybe original trauma would be better.”
Source: White Teeth
“Because improbable tragedies create improbable superheroes.”
Source: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
“Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.”
Source: The Fable of the Bees
“Because in a broken world, you're still the one I would look for, no matter what.”
“Because in a small dark room, a broken child lies on a filthy bed and stares up at a high window. He waits for me, too. And I—I who have failed at everything and have failed everyone—I must not, I cannot, I will not fail him.”
Source: Revolution
“Because in a split second, it's gone.”
“Because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.”
“Because in fact I only lived to write, see no sense in life, have only forced "interests," wish every night, not urgently but quite definitely I could just not wake up tomorrow.”
“Because in fantasy perhaps more than in any other genre, the character is rewarded for making the right choices and punished for making the bad. Ask Boromir.”
Source: The Guide to Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction: 6 Steps to Writing and Publishing Your Bestseller!
“Because in life, knowledge is only part of the battle. WITHOUT ACTION, KNOWLEDGE IS OFTEN MEANINGLESS. As Aristotle put it, to be excellent we cannot simply think or feel excellent, we must act excellently. Yet the action required to follow through on what we know is often the hardest part.”
Source: The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work
“Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them. Stop failing backward and start failing forward!”
Source: Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success
“Because in most cases, I believe that people deserve a second chance. And because I couldn't have lived with myself if I'd stood by and let them both die souless, when I could have helped.”
Source: My Soul to Save
“Because, in my experience, if something seems too good to be true, that’s because it is.”
Source: Lock Every Door
“Because in no other person but the historic Jesus of Nazareth has God become man and lived a human life on earth, died to bear the penalty of our sins, and been raised from death and exalted to glory, there is no other Savior, for there is no other person who is qualified to save.”
Source: Authentic Jesus
“Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn't always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot.”
“Because in our boom times, everything is growing, usually, you know, the kind of things that come to mind are Wild, Wild, West, or land grabs, you know, these sorts of things, in order to make something, you know, kind of to grow into the future and to get all the growth that you need to have. So you tend to hire a lot because you're running fast to the future.”
“Because in our pain we must find each other – mirror to mirror the grace of our shared humanity, the stunningly broken beauty of our shared grief.
And you can let your grief see my grief and let our tears mingle into some kind of healing alchemy, and you’ll know what i know.
That we are never alone.
I promise. You and me? We are never, ever alone.”
“Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.”
Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
“Because in some other universe, you are me, I am you, and we are perfectly happy together. Or perhaps not… and just like this…”
Source: A Dilli-Mumbai Story ...when Love Won Over Terror
“Because in the end…
it’s not success
your soul longs for.
It’s not approval.
It’s not status.
Your soul longs for God.
For truth.
For peace.”
Source: Emotional Roller Coaster: Confessions of a soul reborn from the ashes
“Because in the end nothing is worse than seeing the fall of one you loved. It was somehow worse than losing a love. It made everything seem questionable. It made the past bitter and confused.”
Source: The Bane Chronicles
“Because in the end, that’s all you have. It’s not about endings, happy or sad. It’s about the time in between.”
Source: Ailene
“Because in the end, we die. It’s like Chekhov observed in so many of his plays: ‘in two hundred years, no one will even know we were here.”
Source: The Syrian Virgin
“Because in the end we forget everything, anyway. We're human; we're amnesia machines.”
Source: Microserfs
“Because in the end you are really alone, whatever you do.”
“Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.”
“Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain”
“Because in the feudal system of that period at least 80% of people lived in villages, so it's very simple to get a cross-section of society in a single village. You get the microcosm of the social macrocosm.”
“Because in the game of life, there are two teams: adults and children.
Sometimes, the children win.”
Source: A People's History of Heaven
“Because in the great majority of cases, the reason the other person is not listening to you is not because they are stubborn, but because they don’t feel heard. In other words, they aren’t listening to you for the same reason you aren’t listening to them: they think you are slow or stubborn. So they repeat themselves, find new ways to say things, talk more loudly, and so forth.”
Source: Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
“Because in the late twentieth century, you couldn't seriously ask other people to think that you believed in honor and truth, and the purity of the body, the defense of women, the sanctity of true love, and all the rest of it.
But apparently, Andre really had believed it.”
Source: Timeline
“Because in the long run' Stoner said, 'it isn't Edith or even Grace, or the certainty of losing Grace, that keeps me here; it isn't the scandal or the hurt to you or me; it isn't the hardship we would have to go through, or even the loss of love we might have to face. It's simply the destruction of ourselves, of what we would do'.”
Source: Stoner
“Because in the midst of happiness there is always a seed of unhappiness; it consumes itself like fire--it can't burn forever, sooner or later it must die; and this presentiment of the end destroys my happiness when it is at is height.”
“because in the past words have only driven them apart.”
Source: Picture Perfect
“Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.”
Source: The history and life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg: with twenty-five of his sermons (Temp. 1340)
“because in their quest for power, they needed to have those they'd have power over, and those people are us. And they have taught this lesson of power to the boys and men of Molotschna, and the boys and men of Molotschna have been excellent students in that regard.”
Source: Women Talking
“Because in this world, there is a line: on one side are the men who cannot get things done, and on the other side are the men who can. And not one in a hundred will cross that line. Will you?”
Source: Last Man in Tower
“Because In through the ear and out the eyes they submerge.”
Source: remains: the silent flames that stay untamed
“Because in traditional Hindu culture menstruation is associated with a variety of social taboos, prolonged menstrual bleeding produced conflicts within families. The whole idea of fertility regulation was still extremely new in this setting and many husbands and other family members were angry when they found out that women had decided on their own to use the method and had gone to the clinic in secret.”