B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Before the Second World War I believed in the perfectibility of social man; that a correct structure of society would produce goodwill; and that therefore you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. .... but after the war I did not because I was unable to. I had discovered what one man could do to another... I must say that anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head...”
“Before the Second World War, L'Oreal in France was an active supporter of the French fascists. The cosmetic group's founder Eugene Schueller was an active member of the 'Cagoule' group, committed to the violent overthrow of the Third Republic, and hosted meetings at Oreal headquarters.”
“Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.”
“Before The Simpsons, I was 4 years old, so I don't know exactly what I was thinking before that.”
“Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.”
“Before the Smorgasbord, Noah Price was just a star in my sky...constant, familiar, bright and far above me.”
Source: Let It Snow
“Before the snow could melt for good, an ice storm covered the lowcountry and we learned the deeper treachery of ice. At night, we could hear the disconsolate sounds of trees breaking under the weight of their glistening unnatural burden. Limbs broke with a terrifying violence, like the snapping of healthy bones.”
Source: The Prince of Tides
“Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five”
“Before the start of the 2000 season, 'C.S.I.' wasn't supposed to be the hit. We all thought it would be 'The Fugitive.”
“Before the storm comes the calm. Hope you can take the heat like LeBron”
“Before the suffragettes came along, women were treated like dogs... They were dolls, with no thoughts, or opinions, or voices of their own. Then the suffragettes marched in, full of loud, in-your-face ideas. They got arrested and thrown in jail, but nothing shut them up. They fought and fought until they earned the rights they should've had all along.”
Source: Speak
“Before the sun falls asleep, before the flower loses its freshness, before dreams die in the darkness, share the song of your heart with the world.”
“Before the sun goes to sleep, before the flower loses its freshness, before the dreams die in the dark, share your heart song with the world.”
“Before the sun has licked across the fields, I wonder how
to save myself before guilt sets like a stain. I wonder
if the constellations above me can lift shame or if they're only
a temporary solution for what I feel.”
Source: The Cartography of Sleep
“Before the tears of the eyes dry out
Let them sprinkle words on the paper
Life is short and the man shall die
But the words shall live on forever...”
“Before the term "Alpha male" became popular they just called us Men, it meant more before!”
“Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity: between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.”
“Before the Tigers, or the other clans, or the eras before, the algorithms, the megacorps, the nations, the empires, all the way back to the first city-states--- no ruler has looked after our people, they have had to look out for one another. It is why Shantiport continues to exist, against all logic, and that's the spirit that we have to find a way to channel. No system works, no authority is benevolent, no promise is kept. When the megastorms and floods come, when the genocides come, and the famines and diseases, the rest of the world will not even bother to look, let alone help. If they know about us it is a a symbol of poverty, or decay, or despair. But despite all this, sometimes clusters of people emerge, however flawed, who build institutions and culturewaves larger than themselves.”
Source: The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
“Before the time comes when you will be forced to take your last breath, make sure you work hard and live a better life. Start while time still allows.”
Source: The Precious Gift of Time: Inspirational Quotes and Sayings
“Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq's national unity government.”
“Before the TRUTH can set you free,you must first recognize which LIES are holding you hostage.”
“Before the TV show of Jessica Jones, the response to Miles [Morales] is so overwhelming, and so constant, and it's been five years now. I can't even express to you how powerful it is on my end. It's overwhelming how much it was needed, that I didn't know that's what was needed.”
“Before the twentieth century, to be a widow was perhaps to be in the most potent of a woman's life stages. For the first time, a widow was answerable to no one. For the first time, she could own property. For all women other than the queen, a woman's worldly goods, and even her children, had up to that point been not hers but her father's or husband's.”
Source: Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow
“Before the ubiquity of the traditional schooling system, it was the families that fulfilled this role. The nuclear family and single parents that stay in smaller households was the exception rather than the norm. Family members tended to stay together in one area. This meant in one homestead there were grandparents, parents, uncles and aunts and so on. This in turn created a strong supportive environment”
Source: The Homeschooling Father, How and Why I got started.: Traditional Schooling to Online Learning until Homeschooling
“Before the United States, there wasn't really anyplace anybody could go. They had to seek refuge in other ways. After the United States was founded, it became the place you go, and the people who came assimilated into a single culture that was shared in a way. Everything the left claims to want is exactly what this country started out doing. It was multicultural, we had the Italians, we had the Irish, we had everybody.”
“Before the use of asteroids, the only significators of the feminine in traditional chart interpretation were the Moon and Venus.”
Source: Asteroid Goddesses: The Mythology, Psychology, and Astrology of the Re-Emerging Feminine
“Before the victory, you need the wisdom and the bravery to deal with the misery.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“Before the war an apple tree had stood behind the church. It was an apple tree that ate its own apples.”
Source: The Passport
“Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.”
“Before the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few months. After the first two years it was difficult to believe that they would ever end.”
Source: Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words
“Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is.”
“Before the war, they were happy, he said,
quoting our textbook. (This was senior-year
history class.) The slaves were clothed, fed,
and better off under a master's care.
I watched the words blur on the page. No one
raised a hand, disagreed. Not even me.”
Source: Monument: Poems New and Selected
“Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.”
“Before the Web, there was just one guy running around saying 'I KNOW!'”
“Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of a vortex of the business. It's such a seismic shift really.”
“Before the whole Disney realm had undergone this huge revamping, as a kid, I always saw myself doing these dramatic indie parts. And then I fell in love with doing comedy and doing kid shows and really working for kids.”
“Before the whole world, I accuse you, German intellectuals, you non-Nazis, as those truly guilty of all these Nazi crimes, all this lamentable breakdown of a great people - a destruction which shames the whole white race.”
“Before the word gay had really been invented, was there's no such thing. Only a country, basically as mindless about these matters - based upon our peasant superstitions, religious superstitions - would they make categories. Everybody's everything.”
“Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.”
“Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.”
“Before the world fractured, humanity thought itself invincible. The signs
were always there, buried beneath the noise of progress and power. But
now, as Earth groans under the weight of human folly, three unlikely
leaders must rise—bound by love, driven by hope, and daring enough to
believe in the impossible.
a three body solution begins here.”
“Before The World Was Made If I make the lashes dark and the eyes more bright and the lips more scarlet, or ask if all be right from mirror after mirror, no vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had before the world was made. What if I look upon a man as though on my beloved, and my blood be cold the while and my heart unmoved? Why should he think me cruel or that he is betrayed? I'd have him love the thing that was before the world was made.”
“Before the world was made, when it was only darkness and mist and waters, God was well aware of Lake Wobegon, my family, our house, and He had me all sketched out down to what size my feet would be (big), which bike I would ride (Schwinn), and the five ears of corn I'd eat for supper that night.”
Source: Lake Wobegon Days
“Before thee stands this fair Hesperides,
With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched;
For death-like dragons here affright thee hard.”
Source: A Reconstructed Text of Pericles, Prince of Tyre
“Before them is the most beautiful city she has ever seen, has ever imagined. Golden rooftops shine brightly; windows made from diamonds and rubies gleam; tall buildings reach toward the clouds. She is again overwhelmed, this time with gratitude.
All this, for her.”
Source: Luisa Across the Bay
“Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.”
“Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves.”
“Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.”