B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Because we all carry the Truth within us as our essence, we recognize it immediately.”
“Because we all come from different circumstances, our life experiences really color how we view things.”
“Because we all just function, the rest of us, just go to work and come home; artists make life bearable. They give perspectives on things we never knew you could have. They bring joy. They explore inner human emotion, and at its best, the full dynamic range of that emotion.”
“Because we all know one of the main factors of war is the element of surprise. And what could be more surprising than the First Batallion Transvestite Brigade? Airborne Wing.”
“Because we all need to believe in movies, sometimes.”
Source: I Wrote This For You
“Because we all pick our reality from the slivers and hunks of our history, using our own special processing plant, the world we construct will always be different from anyone else’s world.”
“Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or sister.”
Source: In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy
“Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or sister. No matter how new the face or how different the dress and behavior, there is no significant division between us and other people. It is foolish to dwell on external differences, because our basic natures are the same.”
Source: The Compassionate Life
“Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity.”
“Because we allow handguns. When you know someone in the crowd might be packing a rod, it can't help but rush your timing.”
“Because we are a conglomerate of our experiences - you take away any experience and you take away a piece of identity. You take away a piece of identity and we don't really know who we are.”
“Because we are afraid of life, we seek to control or master it.”
“Because we are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling with being.”
Source: London Fields
“Because we are always growing, life compounds and magnifies what is already in us.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Because we are always growing, life compounds and magnifies what is already in us. If you are miserable you grow in misery and if you are joyful you grow in joy. This makes self-love is the perfect soil from which to grow love.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.”
Source: The Red Lamp
“Because we are co-creators, because we feel each other’s energy, because we are linked—what matters most when you teach is not the flawlessness of your delivery. Not your poise or whether you remembered every line you planned to say or every pose in your yoga sequence.
No, it’s not your perfection, it’s your kindness.”
Source: A Yoga Teacher's Guide to Creative Living
“Because we are continually growing in the Lord, preachers and lay people alike must be open to the Lord's correction.”
Source: He Touched Me: An Autobiography
“Because we are denied knowledge of our history, we are deprived of standing upon each other's shoulders and building upon each other's hard earned accomplishments. Instead we are condemned to repeat what others have done before us and thus we continually reinvent the wheel. The goal of The Dinner Party is to break this cycle.”
“Because we are explorers. We have questions in our blood and we live to seek answers. If we stopped being curious, what would we be? What would be left of us if we stopped being fascinated by magic?”
Source: The Crimson Fire
“Because we are finite creatures who live in time, we cannot see things clearly. Be careful in judging others because the truth of their character and their situation may be hidden from your eyes. Only God knows the whole truth and only God knows the future. Don't expect all the answers now, but be patient and trusting and seek to grow in love. Each act of love is one more step in the long journey to our true and only home, unity with God in eternity.”
Source: How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem
“Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights. We do not seek to intimidate, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well-being of all people.”
“Because we are free, we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere.”
Source: Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition
“Because we are God's children...we can bring our needs to him with certainty in prayer.... Prayer is not some kind of heavenly lottery. Nor does the Bible counsel us to pray with an "I hope this will work"...attitude. Instead...prayer brings us before the throne of grace as children seeking the help of their heavenly Father. That's the heart of breakthrough, successful prayer-the bold confidence that we are talking to the Father who delights to supply our needs.”
“Because we are human. We adapt, we adjust, and we think too damn much.”
Source: Surviving Suicide
“Because we are human we have a long childhood, and one of the jobs of that childhood is to sculpt our brains. We have years--about twelve of them--to draw outlines of the shape we want our sculpted brain to take. Some of the parts must be sculpted at critical times. One cannot, after all, carve out toes unless he knows where the foot will go. We need tools to do some of the fine work. The tools are our childhood experiences. And I'm convinced that one of those experiences must be children's books. And they must be experienced within the early years of our long childhood.”
Source: Talk, Talk : A Children's Book Author Speaks to Grown-Ups
“Because we are human, because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live.”
“Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.”
“Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.”
Source: Phenomenology of Perception
“Because we are intelligent creatures-meaning that we are freed from instinctive and patterned behavior to a degree unparalleled in the animal kingdom-we are capable of, and dependent on, using rational choice to decide our futures.”
“Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service.”
“Because we are invited to be part of God's new creation now, we seek to embody the identity we have been given in Christ. . . . We engage in mission to establish friendships that lead to the formation of a new people in the world.”
Source: Mirror to the Church: Resurrecting Faith After Genocide in Rwanda
“Because we are limited in our knowledge, even the sanest of us are slightly insane. Our limitations are a kind of madness, and we can only choose to deny we are mad, and so descend into a dark spiral of total insanity, or accept we are mad and embark on a quest to regain our true and wholesome sanity”
Source: The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty
“Because we are living in a culture increasingly dominated by fear where many feel blocked.”
“Because we are no different from any animal, any insect or germule. We are not special, Cal. You, me, we all came from nothing, and that's exactly where we're all going one day, maybe soon, whether we like it or not.”
Source: Tunnels #2: Deeper
“Because we are not separate and we are a strand in the web of this existence, there is nothing about us - which includes who we are and what we do - that is not happening perfectly.”
“Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of ... permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.”
“Because we are rooted in a generous Christian heritage, we are eager to collaborate with people of other faiths, and those seeking the common good. Our networks of dialogue and action thus extend beyond Christian communities to persons of all faiths, as well as to communities that are not themselves faith-based. We welcome allies and allegiances wherever we find common cause.”
“Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back of the line the stronger, and therefore more beautiful, the line will be.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.”
“Because we are so focused on the real world, we keep forgetting how fantasy-driven the Left really is....As with orthodox Marxists, the left adamantly believes it is "Progressive", implying that its adherents know the inevitable and virtuous outcome of history. In the Soviet Union the Party truly believed every five years that Stalin's commands to fix agriculture were bound to work....Lenin and Stalin killed tens of millions of "rich peasants" without ever learning how to feed their country.”
“Because we are spiritual beings having a human experience, as much as we are human beings having a spiritual experience, I have decided to let that duality takes his rightful place in my every day life.”
“Because we are the Chosen Ones,' Vanessa says and smiles. 'And who the fuck are you?”
Source: Eld
“Because we are the handiwork of God, it follows that all our problems and their solutions are theological.”
Source: The Knowledge of the Holy
“Because we are unqualifiedly and without reservation against any system of denominational schools, maintained by the adherents of any creed with the help of state aid, therefore, we as strenuously insist that the public schools shall be free from sectarian influences, and above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.”
Source: Writings
“Because we aren't certain about the effects of GMOs, we must consider one of the guiding principles in science, the precautionary principle. Under this principle, if a policy or action could harm human health or the environment, we must not proceed until we know for sure what the impact will be. And it is up to those proposing the action or policy to prove that it is not harmful.”
“Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.”
Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex
“Because we believe that one moment is more or less like the next, we lose touch with the essential urgency of the present, the fact that each passing moment is the one moment for the practice of freedom.”
Source: Time and the Art of Living
“Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.”
“Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.”
Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage