B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Because we weren't having success finding a CEO, our investors insisted that we hire these managers a temporary CEO and CFO. That didn't go great.”
“Because we will die, but at least we will die unbroken.”
Source: The 5th Wave
“Because we worship our way into sin, ultimately we need to worship our way out. When Christians commit sin, they do not cease worshiping. Rather, their worship is directed away from the Creator and toward created things. Repentance is the act of turning from sin and returning to God by trusting in Jesus Christ who is the perfect worshiper.”
“Because we would have had to pay the world back what we owed it," she said, raising her eyes to mine. "The pain of growing up. We didn't pay when we should have, so now the bills are due. Which is why Kizuki did what he did, and why I'm here. We were like kids who grew up naked on a desert island. If we got hungry, we'd just pick a banana; if we got lonely, we'd go to sleep in each other's arms. But that kind of thing doesn't last forever. We grew up fast and had to enter society. Which is why you were so important to us. You were the link connecting us with the outside world. We were struggling through you to fit in with the outside world as best we could. In the end, it didn't work, of course.”
“Because we would not wear any clothes because it was so hot and the windows open and the swallows flying over the roofs of the houses and when it was dark afterward and you went to the window very small bats hunting over the houses and close down over the trees and we would drink capri and the door locked and it hot and only a sheet and the whole night and we would both love each other all night in the hot night in Milan. That was how it ought to be.”
“Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.”
“Because we're always more woundable when caught at exactly the time where we're in the mood for that particular product or service - and as Big Data increasingly are able to pick up on clues revealing desire - automated systems are increasingly able to hit at exactly those moments, across those channels we move - with an offer matching exactly what we're desiring.”
“Because we're becoming such an urban nation, we're going to need to be producing so much more food in cities. These institutions have members, obviously. They have the resources to start projects like urban farms and gardens, teaching tools, and the ability to educate their members so that they can then go home and start their own urban gardens. I just really think that faith-based institutions can take the lead in creating community-based food systems, and I'd really like to see that happen.”
“Because we're comics and we pass each other on campus, we know of each other, and a lot of the time there's a mutual respect there.”
“Because we're not as serious about terrorism as we can be, people all across the globe feel like they can just murder innocent people.”
“Because we're old as sh*t. What do you want?”
“Because we're trying, because we want, it's very hard to get.”
“Because we're watching so many movies and are consumed by so many stories, science fiction lets you do something a bit fresh and that hasn't been seen before.”
“Because we've become so ecologically minded now, they have developed a product called Rapidly Dissolving Toilet Paper. Just how rapidly are we talking? 'Cause I don't want to have to play Beat the Clock in the thicket.”
“Because wellness is simple, this book is simple. It focuses on the six fundamental wellness behaviors that yield the maximum benefits with the least work.
1) Don't be a schmuck. Avoid self-destructive risks.
2) Talk to people. Cultivate family, friends, and other social relations.
3) Expand your mind. Stay mentally sharp.
4) Eat your ice cream. Consume healthy food and drink.
5) Move it! Exercise well and regularly.
6) Sleep like a baby. Get the rest you need.”
Source: Eat Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rules for a Long and Healthy Life
“Because were human beings, were not always going to be perfect.”
“Because Western religion has created this image of the 'God of Good in Whom there is no Darkness,' a grand enantiodrama is occurring around the globe. The 'Light' has been overemphasized in religion, and they have sentenced its opposite characteristic to the dungeon of society's collective unconscious. Sometimes the repressed characteristic bursts forth wildly into daylight with lethal force.”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“Because Western religion has created this image of the 'God of Good in Whom there is no Darkness,' a grand enantiodromia is occurring around the globe. The 'Light' has been overemphasized in religion, and they have sentenced its opposite characteristic to the dungeon of society's collective unconscious. Sometimes the repressed characteristic bursts forth wildly into daylight with a lethal force. We are witnessing this enantiodromia enacted daily as we watch the Evening News.”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“Because what a temporary worker program would do is help relieve pressure on the border. It will allow our law enforcement officials and Border Patrol agents to focus on those who are coming here for the wrong reasons, the criminals and the drug dealers and the terrorists.”
“Because what can you say to a thing that broke itself for a flicker?”
Source: Hold Me While I Decompose
“Because what could be more Casablanca? Suddenly Harlow saw that what she’d always wanted was a man of principle. A man of action. A domestic terrorist. Every girl’s dream, if she can’t have a vampire. (Chapter four pg 202)”
“Because what do smart, selfish girls do?"
"They take care of themselves.”
Source: Meet Me in the Ether
“Because, what does it mean, to say that things aren't going well? Compared to what? You can say: compared to how things were going a couple of hours ago, or a couple of years ago. But that's not the point. If two cars are speeding towards a brick wall with no brakes, and one car hits the wall moments before the other, you can't spend those moments saying that the second car is much better off than the first.
Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we've passed. Or a month, it makes no difference.
So unless we're going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes. Us, or anyone else. Because we're not comparing it with anything.”
Source: The Gun Seller
“Because what God wants, that, and only that, is also what we want—but we don't know it. God comes and awakens our souls, revealing to them their real, though unknown, desire. This is the secret, Brother Leo. To do the will of God means to do my own most deeply hidden will.”
Source: Saint Francis
“Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.”
“Because what if I got to know you and you turned out to be just like they said? What if you weren’t the person I hoped you were? That, more than anything, would have hurt the most.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition
“Because what is art, what is inspiration, if not the deepest, darkest secrets of the artist?”
Source: Threads That Bind
“Because what is more like love than the ocean? You can play in it, drown in it. It can be clear and bright enough to hurt your eyes, or covered in fog; hidden behind a curve of road, and then suddenly there in full glory. Its waves come like breaths, in and out, in and out, body stretched to forever in its possibilities, and yet its heart lies deep, not fully knowable, inconceivably majestic.”
Source: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
“Because what is the face, what, finally, is the skin over the flesh, a cover, a disguise, a rouge for the insupportable horror of our living nature.”
Source: The Days of Abandonment
“Because what my mother showed me is that if you try to keep your children from feeling fear, you're essentially keeping them from feeling competence, too.”
Source: The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
“Because what nobody ever understood is that I, too, wanted to be a somebody. But how do you go through life wanting to be a someone and not knowing how?”
“Because what’s ironic is that being in love doesn’t actually make you happy. It makes it impossible to be happy. You’re carrying this desire now. Maybe if you knew where it came from, you could put it back. But you don’t.”
Source: Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir
“Because what’s life
Without happiness
And where’s happiness
Without risk”
Source: Hole in the World
“Because what she dreaded now, ever since that walk down Lexington Avenue, was that the illness that had possessed, transformed, and consumed her father might also be at work in her brain. She could feel herself think differently and knew that, in the end, it did not matter whether this feeling was based on reality or fantasies. What mattered was that she was unable to stop thinking about her thoughts. Her speculations reflected one another, like parallel mirrors- and, endlessly, each image inside the vertiginous tunnel looked at the next wondering whether it was the original or a reproduction. This, she told herself, was the beginning of madness. The mind becoming the flesh for its own teeth.”
Source: Trust
“Because what the fashion industry loves, it woos - then swallows whole.”
“Because what was love if it wasn't nursing someone else's pain as if it wasn't your own?”
Source: 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
“Because what we have done, we have thrown clothes off and they have picked them up and put them on.”
“Because what you are is beautiful. It’s not your job to try and compensate other people’s lack of vision. You’ve got enough to do just trying to be true to your own.”
Source: The Talented Ribkins
“Because what you give your attention to is the person you become”
Source: The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World
“Because what's the point of something virtual if it doesn't end up being real?”
Source: Another Day
“Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only - finding out that there is set down in some old book somebody just like me, and to know that I shall only act her part; making me sad, that's all. The best is not to remember your nature and your past doings have been just like thousands' and thousands', and that your coming life and doings'll be like thousands' and thousands'.”
Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)
“Because whatever I feel inside, it has a place to go. It just saves me over and over and over again.”
“Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?”
Source: The Angel Experiment
“Because when a writer gives you a gift as precious as their work, they give you their trust, their control, their heart to put paper.”
Source: I Fell in Love With Hope
“Because when all is said and done the setting doesn’t matter: the space, the walls, the light. It makes no difference whether I’m under a clear blue sky or caught in the rain or swimming in the transparent sea in summer. I could be riding a train or traveling by a car or flying in a plane, among the clouds that drift and spread on all sides like a mass of jellyfish in the air. I’ve never stayed still, I’ve always been moving,”
“Because when all you have is the past, it's hard to let it go.”
“Because when an artist has to assert that her intended audience is all humans rather than those who happen to be of her particular gender or race, what she’s actually having to assert is the breadth and depth of her own humanity.”
“Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and peace. But I think a lot of people take on these roles as parents, or husband or wife, and immediately think 'That's it. I'm grown up now. Done.'”
“Because when every day is the End of Days, after a while they feel pretty much like every other day, even though you know that's crazy. And nothing is the same.”
“Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.”