B Quotes
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“Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly -- that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to oneself. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion -- these are the two things that govern us.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Stories
“Because to live in a world in which no one is forgiven, where all are irredeemable, is the same as living in hell.”
Source: The Joke
“Because to me it is inconceivable that a subordinate leader should not carry out orders given by the leaders of the State.”
“Because to me, there is no logic of any kind behind misogyny. Therefore, it’s funny, because it’s so completely random to me. It’s senseless.”
“Because to me, what is interesting about this movie [Real Steel] is its combination of relationship naturalism with. It's like a single conceit movie. The world and the people are very much the way we know them to be, but this sport has evolved.”
“Because to prepare is to win," they said to each other.
And they made a banquet in this honor. ("Car préparer, c'est déjà gagner", se dirent-ils. Et ils firent un banquet en cet honneur.)”
Source: Les Contes de la nuit
“Because to remember is to fill the present with the past, which meant that the cost of remembering anything, anything at all, is life itself. We murder ourselves, he thought, by remembering.”
Source: The Emperor of Gladness
“Because to suffer and do nothing is to be nothing, while to suffer and do something is to become someone. And that is what he is doing: becoming someone.”
Source: The High Mountains of Portugal
“Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.”
Source: The Young Unicorns
“Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape”
“Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.”
“Because to write, one must truly suffer.”
“Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.”
“Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.”
“Because today, I think I'm leaning on the side of wonder.”
“Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots.”
“Because too many times in life there's just one person that I met, just one thing that I heard, one movie that I saw, one song that was sung, that changed my life. So I'm always trying to stay awake to be in the moment, and capture the moments when they come, because they come and go all the time.”
“Because transsexuals have lost their physical “members” does not mean that they have lost their ability to penetrate women—women’s mind, women’s space, women’s sexuality. Transsexuals merely cut off the most obvious means of invading women so that they seem noninvasive.”
Source: The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male
“Because true beauty comes from within, from the person you are.”
Source: Unraveling
“Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“Because true friends knew when to keep silent, to give all the patience needed.”
Source: The Crippled God
“Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny”
“Because true magic is found in the depth of one’s soul.”
Source: Why the Silhouette?
“Because Truth and life are one, when you reject the Truth, you cut yourself off from the source of life.”
Source: The Pursuit of Dreams: Claim Your Power, Follow Your Heart, and Fulfill Your Destiny
“Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.”
Source: Words of Grace
“Because—truth?—on the scale of significance, that stuff doesn’t even register.
What has me pushed past the boiling point...what has me really, really upset is learning the woman I thought was so incredibly strong I married her on the spot...is actually
a quitter who runs from challenge,
a coward too afraid to even try,
a liar who makes promises she won’t keep and
a cynic too bitter to believe what’s right in front of her face. Is that real enough for you?”
Source: Waking Up Married
“Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.”
“Because two bodies, naked and entwined, leap over time, they are invulnerable, nothing can touch them, they return to the source. There is no you, no I, no tomorrow, no yesterday, no names, the truth of two in a single body, a single soul, oh total being.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987
“Because two people in love don't make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to think the same, to know the same. It's about being separate and still loving each other, being distinct from each other. One is the violin string one is the bow.”
Source: The Silent Land: A novel
“Because U.K. artists aren't compensated when their music is played on U.S. radio stations, U.S. artists aren't compensated when their records are played on U.K. stations based on the fact that there's no reciprocity. If that income came in, our artists would be paying income taxes on it. So if we can get a lot of policy on the radar, that may have some positive influence.”
“Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)”
“Because uniting with you
is being one with the cosmos
Being in love with God”
Source: SoulBliss: a poetic tale of cosmic love
“Because unity and friendship is so precious that even God wants to be part of it.”
“Because unrequited love is like a dead, useless organ. It's functionless. It's sicker than a disease. You can cure a disease, but you can't fix a defective soul. That's the most frustrating thing in the world, to be that powerless.”
Source: The Unrequited
“Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.”
“Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me.”
“Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did.”
“Because Utah is largely Mormon country, the firing squad's a little different. You're blindfolded but no cigarette.”
“Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything.”
“Because viewing my naked chest has caused many women to seriously injure themselves stampeding to get to me.”
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 vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.”
Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“Because waiting in lines is detrimental to my tenuous mental state, I walk toward the front.”
Source: The Little Sleep
“Because waking I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdities of my waking thoughts, I am well satisfied that being awake, I know I dream not; though when I dream, I think myself awake.”
Source: The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...
“Because war and preparations for war have acquired legitimacy, and because of the tremendous proliferation of arms through production and export, so that they are now available more or less to all and sundry, right down to handguns and stilettos, the cult of violence has by now so permeated relations between people that we are compelled to witness as well an increase in everyday violence.”
“Because Warner is beautiful in ways even Adam isn't”
“Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.”
“Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.”
“Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.”
Source: Silent to the Bone
“Because we [people] have an intellect, part of what we do is try to understand the "intelligent design." Everything we don't know is "intelligent design." Everything we do know is science.”
“Because we [the USA] are so powerful, our failures resonate more. In some ways, the worst victims of our institutional and elite failures, through the ripple effect of financial crisis and war, aren't Americans.”