B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Because it is such a powerful force in the world today, the Western Judeo-Christian tradition is often accepted as the arbiter of 'natural' behavior of humans. If Europeans and their descendant nations of North America accept something as normal, then anything different is seen as abnormal. Such a view ignores the great diversity of human experience.”
Source: The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture
“Because it is the hardness of the floor, and the abrupt halt in momentum, and the unyielding nature of the surface, that causes a thing to crack. Even if it is not that thing's fault. And then we talk about this thing being broken, or it needing to be fixed, and not what part of the floor has played in the matter. Never the part about the floor being a constant threat. Even if it is a nice floor. Even if everybody wants one just like it.”
Source: Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
“Because it is the lot of mothers to remember what no one else cares to, Mrs. Dutta thinks. To tell them over and over until they are lodged, perforce, in family lore. We are the keepers of the heart's dusty corners.”
“Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently used silverware.”
Source: The feast of love
“Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.
To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take…If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession, but participation…It takes a lifetime to learn another person…When love is not possession, but participation, then it is part of that co-creation which is our human calling, and which implies such risk that it is often rejected.”
Source: The Irrational Season
“Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.”
Source: The Irrational Season
“Because it is the recreational athletes who inspire me through the tough times, the everyday heroes who juggle training with a full-time job, a family and other commitments.”
Source: A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey
“Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].”
“Because it isn’t a loss; just a little piece of their haven had broken off. People can patch things; it still may hurt, but that’s life.”
Source: Essence
“Because it makes him feel part of the team. Because there's something wonderful about making the same noise as everyone around him.”
Source: Beartown
“Because it may seem like a small role now, but it matters. In the end, everything matters.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“Because it protects you. And when I jumped from the Humvee, I believed it would save me, too, in the same way you believe it will always save you.” “No, I don’t,” Thibault began. “Then why, my friend, do you still carry it with you?”
“Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got.”
Source: Pay It Forward: Young Readers Edition
“Because it’s getting to be the blue hour, and that’s the time when everything is revealed.”
Source: After the Blue Hour
“Because it's in the nature of a gift, the offering and the reception, to create relationship and to overcome that which divides, one can't remain in the way of the gift and also definitively disassociate. When a gift occurs, we see ourselves in others, our very lives sustained by the grace of others, and we find we can hardly hold ourselves apart. The gift occasions communion, that wholeness for which we're all longing in one way or another most of the time.”
Source: Life's Too Short to Pretend You're Not Religious
“Because it's not muscles that make men strong. Secret do. The more secret you keep, the stronger you are on the inside.”
Source: Confess
“Because it's not perfect, let's not bother."
That's crazy! Even if we take three steps forward and two and a half back it's still going half a foot forward.”
“Because it's so difficult to fight what you cannot control and right now I can't even control my own imagination as it grips my hair and drags me into the dark.”
Source: Unravel Me
“Because it's so hard to be kind to the world when all you've ever felt is hate.”
Source: Unravel Me
“Because it’s the closest I’ll ever have you, and for some damn reason it matters that I know you’re willingly at my side.”
Source: Undying Hunger
“Because it's the truth. I am not a holiday they rejoice in. I'm the holiday that they fear.”
Source: She Belongs to Krampus
“because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.”
“Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.”
Source: The Secret Scripture
“Because it takes more courage to heal the world's hurts than to inflict them.”
Source: Horde
“Because it turns out, "If it happens, it happens" is Southern Lady Code for we don't want kids.”
Source: Southern Lady Code: Essays
“Because it was all I wanted to fucking know. It was all I wanted to know in this fucking world: where did the beautiful boys go? Where did the beautiful boys go? Where the hell did they go?”
Source: How It Feels
“Because it was all you were willing to give me. And I'd rather having you hating me than not have you at all.”
“Because it was depravity, for a woman to desire more than her lot in life. To aspire to more than safety, protection. To aspire to power.”
Source: The Night Ends with Fire
“because it was him and him alone she didn't want to disappoint.”
Source: The Laws of the Skies
“Because it was my crime to have no one on Earth who cared for me, or loved me.”
“Because it was natural, could he not see that it was marvelous? Poor creature!”
“Because it was starting to get dark, and because the streets were crowded, I bumped into a googolplex people. Who were they? Where were they going? What were they looking for? I wanted to hear their heartbeats, and I wanted them to hear mine.”
“because it was then, as he held her in his unwavering gaze, that she knew she was in love with him as well.”
Source: Nights In Rodanthe
“Because it wasn't enough to be happy, not for Lila. She wanted more. Wanted an adventure . . . Maybe it wasn't a matter of what she didn't have, of what she wasn't, but what she was.”
Source: A Gathering of Shadows
“Because it will make a real artist of you. The more you suffer, the more grateful you ought to be. An empty stomach is better than a full one, Van Gogh, and a broken heart is better than happiness. Never forget that!”
Source: Lust for Life
“Because it won't change if we don't say something.”
Source: The Hate U Give
“Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the prison as disconnected from our own lives. This is even true for some of us, women as well as men, who have already experienced imprisonment.”
“Because it would be very wrong.
"Would"? (I asked).”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“Because it's his bad luck to be the best.”
Source: Red Dragon
“Because it's important. Laws can be reversed, Supreme Court decisions can be overturned, gender classifications can continue.”
“Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic.”
“Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way.”
Source: Paper Towns
“Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way. And Agloe is a place where a paper creation became real. A dot on the map became a real place, more real than the people who created the dot could never have imagined. I thought maybe the paper cutout of a girl could start becoming real here also. And it seemed like a way to tell that paper girl who cared about popularity and clothes and everything else: 'You are going to the paper towns. And you are never coming back.”
“Because it's magic, this place . . . beautiful. And you're beautiful . . . beautifully separate. It all fits.”
Source: Stolen
“Because it's me playing the character, trying to find a way to make it believable and entertaining and interesting.”
“Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.”
“Because it's my first language, all the literature that I've read and all the things that I've been inspired by that have been written in Welsh have moved me beyond anything that I've experienced in any other language.”
“Because it's one of these sort of connections between nodes- every pair of people adds communication overhead.”
“Because it's one of those things I never expected in my lifetime," he told me. "Like a comet. Or world peace. I'm just used to you being single." For some reason, that bothered me. "What, you don't think any guy would ever be interested in me?" Actually," said Adrian, sounding remarkably serious, "I can imagine lots of guys being interested in you.”
Source: The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel
“Because it's one thing when you - oh, I love this tune. But then when you go to sing it, it's got to have something really personal. Then down to 25, and then to pick the final ones I just picked the ones that were more personal, that had something to do with my life.”