B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Because you learn things when you talk to people, especially people who aren't like you. You learn what a goddamned polyglot race we are, we marvelous human beings. Some people are friendly. Some people are gruff. Some want security. Others want independence. Some want the government to run things. Some want to run things on their own. Some people need a helping hand. Some people need a kick in the pants. Some want to live and to die in the same small town. Some want to ramble the wide world. Some are content with little. Some cannot stop striving. Some want to life beside a true love, to worship a single god. Some crave a universe of loves, a universe of gods. I could go on and on. The differences between them, between me and you, between you and the woman sitting next to you at the hairdresser, wearing that dress you'd never wear in a million years, reading that book you wouldn't touch. The genius of politics, of people like Frank, is to link them all, understand them all, to represent them all. Not just the ones you agree with, the ones that think and act like you do.”
Source: Tiny Little Thing
“Because you let me see you, I'm allowed to be seen.”
“Because you let our love just fall apart
You no longer have my heart”
“Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love.”
Source: For the Love of Art
“Because you look at it, you know, and there's basically one set of rules that protect that industrial ruling class. That's what the governments do, that's what the religions do. They protect the interests of that industrial ruling class.”
“Because you make a world that didn't exist before, and you can go into that world deeper and deeper. It's unbounded out there. One film takes you into one area, another film takes you into another area. There could be trillions, zillions of worlds that exist in the big space.”
“Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living.”
“Because you make me want to live. You make me want to grow old with you. You give me hope, and that scares me more than anything else”
Source: Sudden Hope
“Because you may think a bed is a peaceful thing, Sir, and to you it may mean rest and comfort and a good night's sleep. But it isn't so for everyone; and there are many dangerous things that may take place in a bed.”
Source: Alias Grace: A Novel
“Because you, my darling, are like poison ivy to me. Even though I know that it will only make things worse, I can't help but scratch."
"Oh, the compliments." She smiled sadly. "You are as debonair as always.”
Source: The Angels' Share
“Because you need me," he said, drawing in his breath as she squirmed against him. "Just as I need you." He crushed his mouth to hers. "I've needed you for years." Another kiss, this one deep and drugging, his tongue searching her intimately”
“Because you needed to know that not everything was a lie." -Casteel”
Source: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
“Because you never know when the day before ... Is the day before. Prepare for tomorrow.”
“Because you never know where life is gonna take you, And you can't change where you've been, But today, I have the opportunity to choose.”
“Because you offer something ever rarer than power of aphidy. You offer something that few other Queens offer-love. You bestow love on all you take under your care. And intimate love to only a few. I saw it once in your eyes for me, and I want to see it again. I need to, as much as I need to breathe air. Mona Lisa, this one thing-love-you have still to give. Don not deny me. Not when my soul needs you, cries out for you.”
Source: Mona Lisa Darkening
“Because you pray after you play.”
“Because you promised? But you've promised me load of things. Like to cherish me and to love till death do us part.”
Source: Watermelon
“Because you promised infinity.”
“Because you're a girl and when a girl says she's fine, she's lying.”
Source: Gifted
“Because you're always learning, the chief lesson remains: you still know nothing.”
Source: Healology
“Because you’re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.' A brief awkward silence ensued. Augustus plowed through: 'I mean, particularly given that, as you so deliciously pointed out, all of this will end in oblivion and everything.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“Because you're beautiful, Layla, and while I may say that one word to you a lot, I don't simply toss it around. And I've seen many, many beautiful things. People as beautiful as demons are atrocious. You, by far, shine brighter than any of them. It's more than what's on the outside. It comes from within you. I've seen a lot of things and nothing, nothing, comes close to you.”
Source: Every Last Breath
“Because you're from Abnegation,” he says, “and it's when you're acting selflessly that you are at your bravest.”
“Because you're from Abnegation,' he says, 'and it's when your acting selflessly that you are at your bravest.”
“Because you're in a band, you go for other people in bands or in the music industry, but people don't grow up right when they're on tour all the time. They don't do the same things as someone who's been at home and gone to school and got a bunch of crappy jobs.
~Allison Robertson”
Source: Sex Tips from Rock Stars: In Their Own Words
“Because you’re it, okay? I’m never gonna love anybody in the world like I love you.”
Source: Red, White & Royal Blue
“Because you’re looking for something temporary. Something fun to play with.” I leaned even closer to deliver my punch line—the one that would deter even the horniest of men. “And I get attached.” I stood back up to my full height so I could take in his reaction. “Now doesn’t that just scare you shitless?”
Source: Fixed on You
“Because you´re not a one night girl Irish.' Leaning in to place a kiss on my jawline he whispers, 'You're my forever girl.”
“Because you're slime, Thaddeus. And slime spreads, sticking to all the shit in its path and taking that crap with it along the way.”
Source: Descended in Vengeance:
“Because you're worth nothing without society, and also because we would all be dominated by others without political institutions that protect our rights.”
“Because you reckoned money is everything, you regrettably died doing everything for money.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Because you remember Meredith was walking along the highway there and somebody shot him.”
“Because you said you loved him. Because you deserve your fairy-tale ending. And because I’d do anything for you, Gracie Cooper. Even if it means letting you go.”
Source: To Sir, With Love
“Because you see darling, darling, there are no false questions. All questions in life are true questions. Answers may be false, but questions cannot be false. Sure,they can be dumb, they can be stupid, but never false.”
“Because you see when a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies. They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are.”
Source: Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels
“Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.”
“Because you simply can't sit back and allow your best friend to date an animal man of your own creation and say nothing. You can't. And say nothing? That would be just wrong, on so many levels.”
Source: Bunny
“Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever. At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“Because you speak to me in words, and I look at you with feelings.”
“Because you think an explosion has taken place and you're looking at the shards and you say, 'Well, can we put this back together?' And by God, maybe you can put it back together. And maybe it won't be the same, but maybe it will be different, and maybe it can even be better in a different way.”
“Because you thought love was just gonna be there. You weren't taught that it had to be made, it had to be mixed, kneaded, recycled. Over and over, you have to keep creating it. Over and over with everyone you love. Over and over.”
“Because you told me you don't have feelings for me anymore, and you see, that's very akward, because I still have them for you. And I bet you know it.”
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 you took advantage of my disadvantage.”
Source: Lolita
“Because you trust your house, right? It's your house. It protects you from the world and, even more important, all the people out there. It sees you naked every day. It knows your sins. It's the only place where you are your true self. So when that gets corrupted, when that becomes haunted, that's terrifying.”
Source: Twelve Nights at Rotter House
“Because you've spent years perfecting that permanent scowl and Katelyn makes you want to smile back.”
“Because you want something, it is evidence that you don’t want what you have.”
“Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it's worth having a public plan. You could get private insurers to cover this population, but you couldn't without giving the population leverage in the marketplace.”
“Because you want to keep an air of calm and cool.”
“Because you wear a uniform, a smelly uniform...and so you think you can be rude to me.”
“Because you were foolish enough to love one place,
now you are homeless, an orphan
in succession of shelters."
-”
Source: Poems, 1962-2012