B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything.”
“Because they've either conveniently forgotten with time or they're trying to be supportive, most mothers won't tell you how hard pregnancy (and then childbirth) can be. Let me tell you, it is. It's brutal sometimes! But, if I did it, ANYONE can do it. I mean, I always knew I was meant to do something really BIG in life, and now I know that this was it. Screw winning an Academy Award someday ... I GAVE BIRTH”
“Because things accumulate around your name," said Berenice. "You have a name and one thing after another happens to you, and you behave in various ways and do things, so that soon the name begins to have meaning. Things have accumulated around the name, if it is bad and you have a bad reputation, then you just can't jump out of your name and escape like that. And if it is good and you have a good reputation, then you should be content and satisfied.”
Source: The Member of the Wedding
“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”
“Because things grow. Wherever there is air and light and open space, things grow.”
Source: Mr. Fox
“Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again.”
“Because this absolutely insane - the craziest thing I'd ever done. Worse than giving a one-star review, scarier than asking for an interview with an author I'd give my firstborn to eat lunch with, more stupid than kissing Daemon.”
Source: Obsidian
“Because this age and the next age
Engender in the ditch,
No man can know a happy man
From any passing wretch,
If Folly link with Elegance
No man knows which is which.”
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
“Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“Because this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way, in that exact place, so that precise wind could tear it from that precise branch and make it fly into this exact face at that exact moment. And, if just one of those tiny little things had never had happened, I'd never have met ya. Which makes this leaf the most important leaf in human history”
“Because this injunction for all women to have children isn't in any way logical. If you take a moment to consider the state of the world, the thing you notice is that there are plenty of babies being born; the planet really doesn't need all of us to produce more babies.”
Source: How to Be a Woman
“Because this is a country where everyone deserves the same freedom and opportunities to fulfill their dreams.”
“Because this is another thing your average American man in crisis does: he tries to go home, forgetting, momentarily, that he is the reason he left home in the first place, that the home is not his anymore, and that the crisis is him.”
Source: An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
“Because this is how it feels to live my life: scattered, fragmented, and exhausting.”
Source: Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has The Time
“Because this is how the world ends: not in the falling incendiaries of an aerial attack, not in a storm of toy soldiers laying waste to the gods who brought them into being, but in the banal letters of a bank. Where once was magic: now only economics.”
Source: The Toymakers
“Because this is love. This is what we've both been through heartbreak for.”
Source: The Single Girl's Guide To Living And Laughing
“Because this is our life. We met on the road; we grew to know and to love each other on the road. It's where we were meant to be for however long, and it's what we're going to do until it becomes clear that we're meant to do something else.”
“Because this is the beauty of strangers: we're all just doing our best to help each other out, motivated not by karma but by a natural instinct to help the greater whole.”
Source: I Was Told There'd Be Cake
“Because this is the first thing you have ever won and, like your first pair of boots, your first kiss and your first car, you’ll never forget the hours of this day.”
Source: The Damned Utd
“Because this is the land of Sengalang Burong, and in the customs of this land the title of chief is never inherited, it is earned. No man can claim greatness from the labours of another.”
Source: Iban Dream
“Because this is the way things are meant to be.(Press Tilton)”
“Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.”
“Because this is Upper Canada, after all, and 'caning' sounds more English than 'having ass whipped to death with hickory stick.”
Source: Paris in April
“Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. it doesn't just catch up: it overtakes, blotting out the future, the landscape, the very sky, until there is no path left except that which leads through it, the only one that can ever get you home.”
Source: Just Listen
“Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.”
“Because this law could mean so much or so little, it held potential for causing great mischief in the world of art and politics. We needed to reduce its uncertainty, and the best way to do that, I believed, was to force a court to interpret it, which would either void or narrow the law. To make it as broad a target as possible and to assure that someone would sue us, I reproduced the Helms amendment verbatim in the terms and conditions for grant recipients. It could not be ignored there, and if it was to be declared unconstitutional, it had to appear where the courts could not ignore it either.”
Source: Leaving Town Alive
“Because this tea kaiseki would be served so soon after breakfast, it would be considerably smaller than a traditional one. As a result, Stephen had decided to serve each mini tea kaiseki in a round stacking bento box, which looked like two miso soup bowls whose rims had been glued together. After lifting off the top dome-shaped cover the women would behold a little round tray sporting a tangle of raw squid strips and blanched scallions bound in a tahini-miso sauce pepped up with mustard. Underneath this seafood "salad" they would find a slightly deeper "tray" packed with pearly white rice garnished with a pink salted cherry blossom. Finally, under the rice would be their soup bowl containing the wanmori, the apex of the tea kaiseki. Inside the dashi base we had placed a large ball of fu (wheat gluten) shaped and colored to resemble a peach. Spongy and soft, it had a savory center of ground duck and sweet lily bulb. A cluster of fresh spinach leaves, to symbolize the budding of spring, accented the "peach," along with a shiitake mushroom cap simmered in mirin, sake, and soy.
When the women had finished their meals, we served them tiny pink azuki bean paste sweets. David whipped them a bowl of thick green tea. For the dry sweets eaten before his thin tea, we served them flower-shaped refined sugar candies tinted pink.
After all the women had left, Stephen, his helper, Mark, and I sat down to enjoy our own "Girl's Day" meal. And even though I was sitting in the corner of Stephen's dish-strewn kitchen in my T-shirt and rumpled khakis, that soft peach dumpling really did taste feminine and delicate.”
Source: Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto
“Because this woman sobbed in the way that all women sob, whether they do it outwardly or whether they keep it silently locked up inside themselves. They sob because they realise, one day, that they were born on a planet of men, and that short of death or spinsterhood they can never escape. Effie's Aunt Rachel used to say, 'Even the slaves could run away, but where can women go?”
Source: The House That Jack Built
“Because this, for better or worse, is exactly where the truth lies--at the intersection of the forgotten and the ignored, in the neighborhood of all we have tried to forget.”
Source: Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead
“Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these matters at all. Even if they are mired in ignorace, they will see...fragments of the Truth, as men imprisoned in a cave see shadows cast by the sun. Likewise, all men derive their moral intuitions from God; how not? There is no other source, just as there is no other way to make a wheel than to make it round.”
“Because those who are seen to be physically perfect, symmetrical, handsome, and beautiful by society's standards are here to show us how to feel compassion for ourselves, while those who have physical difficulties are here to show us how to feel compassion for others.”
Source: A Room Called Earth
“Because those who hold conspiracy theories typically suffer from a crippled epistemology, in accordance with which it is rational to hold such theories, the best response consists in cognitive infiltration of extremist groups. Various policy dilemmas, such as the question whether it is better for government to rebut conspiracy theories or to ignore them, are explored in this light.”
“Because those who read need time to feel and understand the ripples reverberating in us, there's no point trying to rush and jump from book to book. Take your time; stay on a page and savour the words.”
Source: Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books
“Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.”
Source: Comedies of Plautus
“Because thou hast made the Lord, which is thy refuge, even the most high they habitation. There shall be no evil before thee, neither shall any plague come by thy dwelling. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him."
-Peter Cratchit”
Source: A Christmas Carol
“Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.”
“Because thou writest me often, I thank thee ... Never do I receive a letter from thee, but immediately we are together.”
Source: Letters from a Stoic
“Because though women lie when they have to and men lie all the time, the mirror always tells the truth.”
Source: Snow in Summer
“Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Because through the heavy water, I heard the sound of an angel calling my name, calling me to the only heaven I wanted.”
Source: Twilight
“Because time is a drop in the ocean, and you cannot measure off one drop against another to see which one is bigger, which one is smaller.”
“Because Time is not something to be measured with the eyes, but by the Heart, it's never too late to go and change.”
Source: A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
“Because time isn't something that always proceeds at the same pace. It is we who determine how quickly time passes.”
Source: The diary of a magus
“Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.”
“Because time moves more slowly in Kid World ... it goes on for decades ... It is adult life that is over in a twinkling.”
“Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.”
“because to be is to exist
and to exist is to think and know and want
and those are the things
girls who are good haven't got.
So just don't be
because if you be,
then you are spending moments
pretending you're not a nobody.”
Source: If I Have A Daughter One Day
“Because to be moved by something made by someone who has done something bad would mean that a bad person possesses the capacity to connect to us; that they haven't, somehow, forfeited their humanity.”
Source: Ayoade on Top
“Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business.”
“Because to him, who ponders well,
My rhymes more than their rhyming tell
Of the dim wisdoms old and deep
That God gives unto man in sleep”
Source: When You Are Old: Early Poems and Fairy Tales