B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility. The idea of doing something purely for the delight of it has always rattled the grey-bearded guardians of the state. Sheer pointlessness has always been a deeply subversive affair.”
“Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.”
“Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Source: Choke
“Because surely no one dies when they’re at their happiest.”
Source: Reminders of Him
“Because survival and love are the immortal truths of humankind, no generation is a total stranger to the forerunner generations of humankind.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Because survival has been equated with internal separation, proximity can set off panic and fears of disintegration, i.e. 'fearing the trembling must turn to such severe shaking the vibration would dissolve her entirely, scattering her irrevocably wide'.”
Source: Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder
“Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.”
Source: The Essential Ginsberg
“because talent alone doesn't make an artist”
“Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time.”
Source: Survivor: A Novel
“Because taxpaying is seen as an emblem of civic worthiness, denying the poor the status of taxpayers has the effect of denying their political standing. Classing a large percentage of the populace as a kind of second-class citizenry is genuinely toxic for democratic norms.”
Source: Read My Lips: Why Americans Are Proud to Pay Taxes
“Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.”
Source: Eighth Grade Bites
“Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people need to be told stories. That's all it is. And yet we get treated as though we're important.”
“Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.”
“Because thankfulness is the tonic that always cures the cancers of greed, envy and jealously, it should be taken in liberal doses daily.”
“Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in my life. Maybe that's the thing with liberation. It comes at a price.”
“Because that happened to me when I was little, this is how I will now treat other people"; "Because so and so beat me up and hurt me a long time ago, that gives me the right to treat people the way I treat them, today"; "Because life was hard on me, life should be hard on everyone else around me"— does this sound/ look familiar? It's called victim mentality. When people choose to be the direct product of everything that happened to them, the direct product of every single pair of hands that hurt them. And the world, to these people, must bend over backwards in order to accommodate their wounds. Some people don't want to be loved; they just want to make the world pay.”
“Because that is what a husband is supposed to do for his wife: lay down his life even when he doesn't have to.”
Source: The One
“Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.”
“Because that's all art is, in the end. One person trying to get another person they have never met to fall in love with them.”
Source: Margo's Got Money Troubles
“Because that’s intimacy, Buckaroos.
Somebody who understands exactly how weird you are, and you understand exactly how weird they are, and you’re in a sort of mutually beneficial hostage situation.”
Source: Solutions and Other Problems
“Because that’s the thing about reading / books. For all their vulnerabilities and lack of pull relative to screens, reading / books has proven resilient as fuck.”
“Because that's the worse. That's worse than growing apart, or falling out of love, or even lying. Being with someone because you feel guilty is worse.”
“Because that’s what a comic is, ultimately: a collection of pages. It’s not a flatpanel or a touchscreen, even though that’s where it might eventually be displayed. It’s a page.”
“Because that's what it is, boy, it's a fight, or it'd better be. Because if there's something in me that's trying to kill me, maybe I can't get rid of it, but I don't have to make it welcome, and I'm sure not going to pretend it ain't there.”
“Because that’s what parents do, without even thinking about it, that’s what parents do. They fill their children with love and understanding and compassion and knowledge so that when they’re adults no one can extinguish them. They’ll burn so bright they can’t be brought down.”
Source: So Much More: A single dad, age gap romance
“Because that's what unfaithfulness is, isn't it? A cancer that's always there in the back of your mind, eating away at the foundations of the relationship.”
Source: The Ex-Boyfriend's Handbook
“Because that saying about sticks and stones is a pack of lies. Unkind words hurt more than anything else. You end up carrying them around in your head, wondering if they’re true. Bruises fade, but self-doubt follows you forever.”
Source: Triple Bar
“Because that was some mega tense awkwardness, a real 'Hello my name is Ever and I'll be your next stalker' kind of moment.”
Source: The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland
“Because that was the problem, really, wasn’t it, with being human? You couldn’t just be, couldn’t just live and exist without dragging your feet through the mud. You had to communicate, congregate, collaborate, cohabiate. You had to corroborate. Copulate. You had to co-this, co-that, co—bloody-everything, and if you weren’t co-operating you were operating with the co, which was a declaration less of independence than of relativity. You could only really exist in relation to others.”
“Because that was the problem with society. It cared too much about who you fell in love with but never about why. The why matters.”
Source: Defy
“Because that was what you did with family when you'd been worried about them, you grabbed them and held on to them and told them how much they'd pissed you off, and it was okay, because no matter how angry you got, they still belonged to you.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“Because that which was new was almost always temporary. And that which was temporary broke your heart.”
“Because that you are going And never coming back And I, however absolute, May overlook your Track -
Because that Death is final, However first it be,
This instant be suspended Above Mortality -
Significance that each has lived The other to detect Discovery not God himself Could now annihilate
Eternity, Presumption The instant I perceive That you, who were Existence Yourself forgot to live -
The “Life that is” will then have been A thing I never knewAs Paradise fictitious Until the Realm of you-
The “Life that is to be,” to me,
A Residence too plain Unless in my Redeemer’s Face I recognize your own -
Of Immortality who doubts He may exchange with me Curtailed by your obscuring Face Of everything but He -
Of Heaven and Hell I also yield The Right to reprehend To whoso would commute this Face For his less priceless Friend.”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Because that you are going And never coming back And I, however absolute, May overlook your Track -
Because that Death is final, However first it be,
This instant be suspended Above Mortality -
Significance that each has lived The other to detect Discovery not God himself Could now annihilate
Eternity, Presumption The instant I perceive That you, who were Existence Yourself forgot to live -
The “Life that is” will then have been A thing I never knewAs Paradise fictitious Until the Realm of you-
The “Life that is to be,” to me,
A Residence too plain Unless m my Redeemer’s Face I recognize your own -
Of Immortality who doubts He may exchange with me Curtailed by your obscuring Face Of everything but He -
Of Heaven and Hell I also yield The Right to reprehend To whoso would commute this Face For his less priceless Friend.
If “God is Love” as he admits We think that he must be Because he is a “jealous God”
He tells us certainly
If “All is possible widi” him As he besides concedes He will refund us finally Our confiscated Gods -”
Source: Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.”
“Because that's the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don't want to let it go. It becomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into my lunges. I want to nurture it, grow it, cultivate it. It's mine. I want to check out with it, drift asleep wrapped in its arms and not wake up for a long, long time.”
“Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one.”
Source: Wide Awake
“Because that's what heaven is...it's opening the door of a house in twilight and everyone you love is there.”
“Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.”
“Because that's what narcissism is all about; looking in the mirror everyday and thinking 'Damn, I'd like to shag myself.'”
“Because that's what unfaithfulness is, isn't it? A cancer that's always there in the back of your mind, eating away at the foundations of the relationship. It's happened once, it could happen again, so you're always looking for telltale signs or symptoms to show that it's reappeared.”
Source: The Ex-Boyfriend's Handbook
“Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.”
Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
“Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you eat lunch with him and talk with him and share secrets and laugh a lot and go places and do stuff, and when you wake up in the morning, he's the first person you think of.”
Source: Loser
“Because that, more than any monster, was what Sam had feared: that he was weak and cowardly. He had a terrible fear of being afraid.”
“Because that’s how it works after something terrible has happened. You know this is true if something terrible has ever happened to you. A thousand objects take on new meaning. Everything is a reminder of something else.”
Source: Stay
“Because that’s the thing about the exact moment when you get somewhere that has required effort: There’s a freeze-frame instant of total fulfillment, when every expectation has been met and the world is perfect.”
Source: A House in the Sky
“Because the 1979 strike against U.S. Steel in Youngstown, Ohio was an occupation - and actually, that's a model that really should be pursued now.They went on from striking to trying to have the workforce and the communities take over the abandoned factories that U.S. Steel was dismantling.”
“Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.”
Source: The Works...
“Because the alternative sucks!”
Source: Reaper