B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Before you worry about the beauty of your body, worry about the health of your body.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Before you write - remember that every speech has something of 'you' in the writing. Don't take that away when you write. Be yourself. Be comfortable in your own skin.”
“Before you write someone off over hearsay, remember that God could’ve written you off over the truth.”
Source: Why Sell Lies When The Truth Is Free
“Before you'll change, something important must be at risk.”
“Before you're a mom you don't know what gear is going to be relevant.”
“Before you're famous it's stuff that seems like it'd be really cool, but once you get it, you realize it's not bad, but it's kind of hollow and meaningless.”
“Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.”
“Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.”
“Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.”
“Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job and, as such, I give a republican salute to Nicolas Sarkozy who has led France for 5 years and who deserves all of our respect.”
“Before your awake, all you do is see
When your awake, all you do is feel.”
“BEFORE YOUR DEATH, LEARN You Cannot TAKE Even Your LAST BREATH WITH YOU, TIRUMAAL SRI MURUGA PERUMAL”
“Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.”
Source: How to get whatever you want out of life
“Before your mother's conception of you, God knew you; before His consecration of you, He had up set your assignments right! You are not an accident!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“Before your voice drowns,
And your eyes lose the light,
Before your soul loses the song,
Write!
Before the flower fields, lose the scent,
before the light of sky is covered by clouds,
before the birdsongs dim in the sky,
Write!
Before you lose your ecstasy,
hurled into a sea of loneliness,
Before fate comes to take you away
from the voice of your soul,
Before you lose faith in beauty and eternity,
Write!
Before you drown in a sea of sadness,
Before clouds gather and bring the rain,
Before melancholy grips you tight,
And you cannot recognize yourself,
Before delights turn into thorns,
And flowers lose their scent,
Write!”
“Before, baseball was something to do to get ready for the hockey season. Now, people look to play baseball, period. It's something you stick with.”
“Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career more seriously.”
“Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career more seriously. The fact that a reader may buy an Armani item because she'd seen it on me in a magazine is very important to me. So much so that I intend to launch my own label.”
“Before, by yourself, you couldn't. Now, you've turned to our Lady, and with her, how easy!”
“Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives.”
“Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.”
“Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living.”
Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
“Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.”
“Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now”
“Before, I loved thee as a brother, John, But now, I do respect thee as my soul.”
Source: Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V
“Before, I said that they were maybe the best supporters in England. Now maybe they are the best supporters in Europe.”
“Before, I thought I was actually fighting for my own self-worth; that is why I so desperately wanted people to like me. I thought their liking me was a comment on me, but it was a comment on them.”
Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
“Before, I used to ask permission to my parents to leave the house. Now it's - I ask permission to my children to leave the house. They own the house.”
“Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.”
Source: The Moviegoer
“Before, I was always the kid that was in the background. It was hard for me to get casted in even one program, and when people thought that I was a guest on a show for the first time when I had been on before, it saddened me. Suddenly getting the spotlight? That's! Not! True!”
“Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.”
“Before, I was like 'Oh my God, I have to do this media, this media and this media,' but now I've learned these are stages you need to go through. If you play really good golf, you're going to get more media attention and more interest in you, and you'll get more confident handling it.”
“Before, I was more concerned with getting on the radio, like many young artists.”
“Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more.”
“Before, I was so stupid. But, you know, when you have friends who died on the street, you say, okay, let's calm down. It's not the kind of energy I want to have in life. I want to go slower, and longer.”
“Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis.”
“Before, I would play a little hoops, a little tennis. Now it's more yoga, Pilates, stretching, some light weight work, push-ups, sit-ups, resistance things. When I used to live on the eleventh floor, I would take the steps. I don't do that so much now. I'm taking the elevator a bit more these days.”
“Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.”
“Before, if I wasn't in baseball, I wanted to become a doctor.”
“Before, if your phone was busy, your phone was busy. You had no cell phone. Now people work 24/7, their BlackBerry keeps them busy, and e-mail - and when do they have time for other pursuits? When do they have time to be politically active?”
“Before, it came easy for me. I don't have two speeds anymore. I need to focus on the small things that I once took for granted.”
“Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.”
“Before, models had that rock star life and it was all about going to the parties and having that glamorous life, and I think these days, models are more like businesswomen and the whole industry takes it really serious.”
“Before, prior to. There is no difference between these two except length and a certain affectedness on the part of 'prior to.' To paraphrase Bernstein, if you would use 'posterior to' instead of 'after,' then by all means use 'prior to' instead of 'before.”
Source: Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words
“Before, revolutions used to have ideological names. They could be communist, they could be liberal, they could be fascist or Islamic. Now, the revolutions are called under the medium which is most used. You have Facebook revolutions, Twitter revolutions. The content doesn't matter anymore - the problem is the media.”
“Before, shortstops and second basemen were mostly defensive guys that made all the plays and didn't really hit that well. But now it's beginning to change a little bit. Now, shortstops and second basemen are very productive in terms of run producing.”
“Before, the myth of photography doesn't lie was used in order to cover up tricks. If I [make a] portrait [of] you, accommodate you, illuminate you, put make up on you or use a filter, am I not manipulating reality? The only difference is that now I can do it from the computer in the postclick instead of the preclick. If I decide to photograph something instead of something else, I also manipulate reality. Of course a photograph can lie or commit abuse, but it always could.”
“Before, they had never found themselves broken together. Usually, it was one needing the other but not both needing each other, and so there had been a way, by touching, to borrow from the stronger one's strength.”
Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic
“Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.”
“Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.”
Source: The Shadow of Victory: A Romance of Fort Dearborn