B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Because Scientology is perceived and conceived by Scientologists as being this salvation for mankind, you can have people that lie with a very straight face if they believe that what they are doing is protecting the Church of Scientology.”
“Because [self-esteem] offers indiscriminate affirmation unconnected to genuine accomplishment, self-esteem can foster narcissism, diminish empathy, and stoke aggression. It can also promote bias toward one's own group and prejudice toward other groups. Because self-esteem is comparative, to assess myself favorably, I often must denigrate others.
The most powerful and promising alternative [to self-esteem] is called "self-compassion". Self-compassion encourages us to take the middle road in handling negative emotions - not suppressing them, but not exaggerating or over identifying with them either. Self-compassion delivers the benefits of self-esteem without its drawbacks.”
Source: The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
“BECAUSE SELF IS NO LONGER OUR GOD,
SAFETY IS NO LONGER OUR CONCERN.”
“Because sexual intimacy is so sacred, the Lord requires self-control and purity before marriage, as well as full fidelity after marriage... Tears inevitably follow transgression. Men, take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.”
“Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional.”
“Because she could not go near all these wonderful things, she longed for them all the more.”
“Because she deserved more than me. She deserved someone who could give her the whole universe.”
Source: Doctor Who: The Stone Rose
“Because she deserved my tears if anyone on earth ever did. I could feel the tears within me, undiscovered, and untouched in their inland sea. Those tears had been with me always.”
“Because she did not look behind, September did not see the smoky-glass casket close itself primly up again. She did not see it bend in half until it cracked, and Death hop up again, quite well, quite awake, and quite small once more. She certainly did not see Death stand on her tiptoes and blow a kiss after her, a kiss that rushed through all the frosted leaves of the autumnal forest, but could not quite catch a child running as fast as she could. As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.”
Source: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
“Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.”
“Because she had books in her life. And when you have books in your life they eventually lead you back to yourself.”
Source: The Pitch Queen
“Because she has seen for herself. I've told her nothing. She's a person who does see.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“Because she is afraid of not being supported, she unknowingly pushes away the support she needs.”
Source: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
“Because she is my sister, and therefore one half of me.”
“Because she is not small. She is not weak. She will never, ever be feebleminded,
And above all, she is outraged.
The world will tell you not to be outraged, love. They will tell you to sit quietly, be kind. Be a lady.
And when they do? Be Judith instead.”
Source: Blood Water Paint
“Because she is the channel of life, woman as mythic mother lives at one remove from life. A woman who defines herself through her fertility has no other option. So a woman who feels she has been deprived of motherhood is trebly deprived—of children; of the value of herself as mother; and of her own self, as autonomous being.”
Source: The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography
“Because she is too ugly to kiss goodbye.”
“Because she knew already that this would be the thing that would end them. And that in the deepest part of her, she had known it from the beginning, like someone stubbornly ignoring a weed growing until it blocked out the light.”
Source: Paris for One
“Because she knew from experience that what came next was something straight out of a Pitbull featuring Ke$ha song. She was going down. Although, as far as she could figure, no one was yelling, “Timber!”
Source: Full Throttle
“Because she knows what it's like to live in a world of black, and black, and the tiny bit of white, but when she escaped it, she didn't find the rainbow of colors, the dresses, the singing, the dancing. She only found ugliness.”
Source: Through the Dark: A Darkest Minds Collection
“Because she lives in a state of alarm, she notices things that others miss.”
Source: Understanding the Borderline Mother
“Because she looks to the sky so often, people think that her life is sweet, that her eyes are dotted with dreamy stars. But quite the opposite is true and I wish they could see— she looks up so much because all around her it's hard to see without breaking her heart. She once saw in a movie a window sign that said "We're all in the gutter; but some of us are looking at the stars." From that movie onwards, she decided to look up! Doesn't mean her life is sweet, doesn't mean her eyes are dotted with dreamy stars.”
“Because she needed ore than sleep. She needed oblivion.”
Source: Dreams of Falling
“Because she's my mum Ryan. She wasn't a very good one, she was a horrible one in fact. But she is all I have left and I don't want to end up like her. I want to be a good person; I want to continue to care about others even when they don't deserve it.”
Source: Never Enough
“Because she’s sweet, and I like her funny little personality. I love when she’s affectionate, and I love that she lets me hold her as much as I want to. She makes me feel calm and I like that she likes me, too.”
Source: Daydream
“Because she was a blank mural and you wrote all over her.”
Source: Thoughts of a Burning Heart
“Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.”
Source: Pegasus
“Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself. ... As much as Lena liked to hide the mess and display the finished product, by this point she was all mess and no product.”
Source: Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel
“Because she was seventeen, and still alive, against thousands of years' worth of odds.Because she knew enough to fear what the future would bring.”
Source: The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection
“Because she was so afraid, he could see that now. What he did not know was whether she was more afraid of being alone or being embraced, of being abandoned or being loved.”
Source: A Vision in Smoke
“Because she was so beautiful the huntsman took pity on her, and he said, "Run away, you poor child.”
“Because she was trying to flee from them, they regarded her as a fugitive from the jaws of the Alligator.”
Source: Last Seen in Lapaz
“Because she—you hear her—she's calling,
and is always going to call, and it's better
both of us die by the dagger without anyone
seeing us, Orestes, and die a fit death.”
Source: Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
“Because she’s Acheron companion. (Astrid) Ash has a companion? (Zarek) (The demon snorted. She stood up and whispered loudly in Astrid’s ear.) Dark-Hunters are cute, but very stupid. (Simi)”
“Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered by the power of one, nor of a few commonwealths, as being a common measure of the commodities of all places. But base money may easily be enhanced or abased.”
Source: Leviathan - Revised Edition
“Because simplicity isn't the greatest thing in the world, but love.”
“Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge just as each son sought to displace the authority of the father in his own life.”
Source: The Prodigal God: Recovering the heart of the Christian faith
“Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is, we lose track of the Original Mind and are tormented all the time by the threatening objective world, regarding it as good or bad, true or false, agreeable or disagreeable. We are thus slaves of things and circumstances.”
Source: Manual of Zen Buddhism
“because, sir, in case you don't know it, words move, they change from one day to the next, they are as unstable as shadows, are themselves shadows, which both are and have ceased to be, soap bubbles, shells in which one can barely hear a whisper, mere tree stumps,”
Source: Death with Interruptions
“Because sloths' metabolisms are so slow, they don't exhibit many external signs of stress and it can be hard to determine their mood.”
“Because so few people make an actual long term commitment to what they're building, the ones that do have a huge advantage.”
“Because so many of the poems tonight
felt a little like our own stories.
Like we saw and were seen.
And how crazy would it be
if I did that for someone else?”
Source: The Poet X
“Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences.”
“Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and inherent knowledge to their racial identity and used that as a form of argumentation, I'm thinking now's a good time to buy low for my own poems and write poems that are deeply in the interior and the psyche. There are plenty of people out there working on subjects of political poetry, partisan poetry, all the way through to crossing the threshold of propaganda. I start thinking now's a good time for me to start writing about the myths of my own psyche.”
“Because so many rooms are run by men they're just used to women being the "that" - to be adored and dreamed about.”
“Because sober or not, until you start to tell the truth, you're going to be desperately lonely. Perhaps this is obvious, but I'm pretty sure it escapes most of us.
We know we're lonely...but we don't really know why...I felt a nagging ache of separateness I could not name. Despite being surrounded by people, having a big social life, more plans than I had time for, and a solid group of people I considered friends, I still felt very much alone. I felt alone in my marriage. I felt alone in my friendships, And actually being alone by myself? Forget it - that was intolerable...
Loneliness started to abate only when I began to really let people in and tell them the truth, and that took a long, long time.
The antidote to loneliness wasn't just being around others or sharing common ground. It was intimacy.
My friend Meadow's definition of intimacy...she says, "Intimacy is having a kind, compassionate witness to your truest thoughts and feelings."
Having a witness also means being seen. Really seen. In all our humanity - flaws and ugly bits and all. Even the most courageous of us are willing to go about 90 percent of the way there, but we hold on to that last 10 percent, the part that could allow us to be really known. Sobriety hasn't so much been about revealing the 90 percent but that last 10. The little bit I always want to keep to myself.
The problem is, 10 percent of withholding, or secretiveness, will still eventually contaminate the whole...And keeping 10 percent of yourself from your partner, or whomever you could trust with your heart, will make you 100 percent lonely.”
Source: We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life
“Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have earned must be reduced in order to address our national debt.”
“Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty.”
“Because society places a value on masculinity, gay men aspire to it. If you go to a gay club and the doorman says, 'You do realise this is a gay club, don't you lads?' you get all excited because you think, 'Wow, he thought I was straight!'”
“Because society says A plus B equals C, then we're nothing? Sometimes X divided by 4.3 equals fuck all, Tate.”
Source: Separation