B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Because my work discusses feminism and disapproves of feminism, it is important from the leftist standpoint to destroy Dave Sim as an individual and to ignore his work.”
“Because my work is naturally non-meaningful, the meaning found in it will remain doubtful and inconsistent - which is the way it should be. All that I care about is that, like any startling piece of nature, it should be capable of stimulating meaning.”
Source: Claes Oldenburg: an exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, under the auspices of the International Council of the Museum, the Tate Gallery, London 24 June - 16th August 1970
“Because national borders are eroding, because of the growth of non-state actors. It's a different kind of a world. We are tied down by a tiny little country - Iraq. It's amazing, given the disparity in military economic strength. It's a world where most of the big problems spill over national boundaries, and there are new kinds of actors and we're feeling our way as to how to deal with them.”
“Because Native American Indians are so marginalized in the historical world, we are compelled to search for tiny openings in the armor of recorded history to work resistant magic.”
“Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.”
“Because neither corn nor wheat grew well in the Adirondacks, the favored crop was potatoes ("Our food was mostly fish and potatoes then for a change we would have potatoes and fish," recalled one early inhabitant), occasionally supplemented by peas, rye, buckwheat, or oats.”
Source: Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation
“Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as non-existent. One year was like another year. Eventually everything would happen.”
Source: Collected stories, 1939-1976
“Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along--the same person that I am today. I never felt that I spoke childishly. I never felt that my emotions and desires were somehow less real than adult emotions and desires. And in writing _Ender's Game_, I forced the audience to experience the lives of these children from that perspective--the perspective in which their feelings and decisions are just as real and important as any adult's. ... _Ender's Game_ asserts the personhood of children, and those who are used to thinking of children in another way ... are going to find _Ender's Game_ a very unpleasant place to live.”
Source: Ender’s Game
“Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.”
Source: The Ender Quintet
“Because new special things empty old special things of their specialness, there is no tradition of special.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“Because nine years ago, I walked up to the most beautiful girl in the bar, and tonight she's still the only person I want to talk to.”
Source: About That Night
“Because nitrous oxide [released by nitrate-fertilised soil] is 296 times stronger than CO₂ at global warming and methane [cow farts] is about 26 times as potent as CO₂, the combined greenhouse effect of our livestock worldwide is greater than the sum total of all the cars, trains, busses, trucks, ships, airplanes and jets.”
“Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
“Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.”
Source: Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
“Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese.”
“Because no matter how much money we spend there [in Iraq], as long as the people there see this money as... as assistance that is unwelcome, as long as they continue to be humiliated in their own country by us... I mean, the future looked bleak, and the future after that was in fact very bleak.”
“Because no matter what happened, I had the peace of mind of knowing that all of the chatter, the name-calling, the doubting -\-\ all of it was just noise. It did not define me. It didn’t change who I was. And most importantly, it couldn’t hold me back.”
“Because no matter what they say, you always have a choice. You just don’t always have the guts to make it.”
Source: Awakening
“Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.”
“Because no one can be trusted.”
“Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.”
Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition
“Because no one can make another person happy", said George. "He was happy when he was with me, but otherwise he wasn't. That's not enough. I mean, in a relationship, you have your ups and downs, sure, and you help each other through, but if a person is genuinely unhappy, it won't work. No amount of love or laughter from the other person can fix that. Each person has to love and laugh on their own They need to feel it for real, deep down, in here.”
“Because no one frustrates me quite as much as you do." Totally true. "Soon, the thought of your face will do it, but now, it seems I need your annoying presence as well.”
Source: Split Second
“Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors”
“Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn't harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8.”
“Because no one is walking in your shoes, only you feel the sores on your feet.”
“Because no one needs to live for ever. I think that sometimes you can outstay your welcome.”
Source: The Declaration
“Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.”
“Because no one thought she was a person, she had no one to really talk to.”
“Because no one was immune to tragedy.”
Source: Why We Came to the City
“Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this incomparable agony, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed.”
Source: The Simone Weil Reader
“Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.”
“Because no, I didn’t push her away. I didn’t add to her pain or do anything to hurt her. Instead, I left her alone in that room. The only person who might’ve been able to reach out and save her from herself. To pull her back from wherever she was heading. I did what she asked and I left. When I should have stayed.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition
“Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.”
“Because nobody goes through life without a scar.”
“Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.”
“Because nonbeing longs for being, on occasion it creates a stronger sense of being than being itself.”
“Because, Nora, sometimes the only way is to live.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.”
Source: Wolves Eat Dogs
“Because normally with Western cuisine, you'll serve vegetables separate from the meat, so kids will eat the meat and never touch the vegetables.”
“Because not all weakness has to be weakness”
Source: Cast in Courtlight
“Because not even the least Dharma is there found or got at. Therefore is it called 'utmost, right and perfect enlightenment'. Self-identical is that Dharma and nothing is therein at variance. Therefore is it called 'utmost, right and perfect enlighten'”
“Because nothing has been said, it does not absolve you of your commitment to satisfy your promise.”
“Because nothing helps you make friends faster than a rotting corpse with a French accent”
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“Because nothing I did with Charlie ever once felt like that kiss with Jack.”
Source: Different for Boys
“Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.”
Source: Choke: A Novel
“Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.”
Source: Choke: A Novel
“Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.”
Source: The Greatest Gift: Unwrapping the Full Love Story of Christmas
“Because nothing makes love and life matter more than the knowledge that some day it must end.”
Source: Drinking Midnight Wine
“Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.”
Source: Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files