B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Behind every successful woman is a man who tried to stop her.
- Graffiti on the wall of the women’s lavatory,
the George Tavern, East London”
Source: Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
“Behind every successful woman is herself and a whole bunch of females-only funds and organisations funded by men.”
“Behind every successful woman is someone who pissed her off.”
Source: Quickie Stickies: 100 Pick-Me-Ups for When You're Feeling Unglued
“Behind every sucessful person lies a pack of haters”
“Behind every summer is a fall just waiting to happen.”
Source: The Fallen Boys
“Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel.”
“Behind every terrorist stand dozens of men and women, without whom he could not engage in terrorism. They are all enemy combatants, and their blood shall be on all their heads. Now this also includes the mothers of the martyrs, who send them to hell with flowers and kisses. They should follow their sons, nothing would be more just. They should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes will be raised there.”
“Behind every thriving economy is a salesperson who refuses to see people as numbers and chooses to become their catalyst. Integrity tilts markets, persistence fills tables—sell with honor, and you move the world.”
“Behind every timeless story lies the moment when someone chose perseverance over surrender.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Behind every trauma, there is an untold story. It is the untold story of adversity and resilience-the heroic, powerful, and perilous lifelong journey.”
“Behind every tree there's a new monster.”
“Behind every tremendous depression; there is a amazing life.”
“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“Behind every triumph there's a thousand tragedies.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“Behind every "Truth" there is always a "Lie", Behind every " Lie" there is always a "Reason", and behind every " Reason" there is always a "Person"....”
“Behind every tumor is a person, not a prognosis, not a statistic but a story.”
“Behind every unsuccessful man there is always a friend or girl friend.”
“Behind every unsuccessful woman is a man like a holy shit”
“Behind every untouched slab of stone is the soft cold smile of an angel looking back at us, but also everything that we can dream of, as well as so much more… That smile can also be warm.”
Source: Commendable Delusions: Tales of Meaning and Imagination
“Behind every villain is a truth, whether it be perceived or actual.”
Source: The Darkest Light
“Behind every word flows energy. If you use your words to gossip or babble about what you are going to do before you do it, then you are siphoning off the energy needed to actually do the work. Your words become an energy leak.”
Source: Your Heart's Desire: Instructions for Creating the Life You Really Want
“Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.”
“Behind everyman of significance, there is a woman full of wisdom”
“Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego.”
“Behind everything we feel, there is always a sense of fear.”
Source: Struggle Till Dawn
“Behind good brands lie stakeholder companies.”
“Behind government corruption are a wide range of vested corporate interests.”
“Behind great men, children, companies or homes are some extraordinary women! Take time today and always to acknowledge the women in your life with a show of gratitude. Love compels a woman's heart. Appreciation drives her commitment. Kindness fuels her strength. Compassion gives her courage. God gives her to you.”
Source: Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments into Your Greatest Blessings
“Behind her, had she looked, she would have seen Glennis. And Bronwen. Petrah Blueblood. Aedion Ashryver and Lysandra and Ren Allsbrook.
Prince Galan and Captain Rolfe and Ansel of Briarcliff, Ilias and the Fae royals beside them.
Had she looked, she would have seen the small white flowers they bore. Would have wondered how and where they had gotten them in the dead heart of winter.
Had she looked, she would have seen the people gathered behind them, so many they streamed all the way to the city gates. Would have seen the humans standing side by side with the Crochans and Ironteeth.
All come to honor the Thirteen.”
Source: Kingdom of Ash
“Behind her I see our snow angels, a perfect five feet apart. I let go, quickly stepping back before the dizzying urge to kiss her overwhelms me again.
- Will”
Source: Five Feet Apart
“Behind her, Rijes let out a small gasp as she beheld the bookshelves--- it was the sound of a woman who didn't expect to find happiness but discovered it anyway. Terlu knew that sound well. "This is perfect," Rijes proclaimed.”
Source: The Enchanted Greenhouse
“Behind her, the door to the stairwell opens, and Tobias steps out with Marcus and Caleb behind him, almost unnoticed.
Almost, except I notice him, because I have trained myself to notice him.”
Source: Insurgent
“Behind her, Jace moved out into the water with a contained grace that barely rippled the surface. Simon behind him, was splashing and cursing.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“Behind him, he heard Ronan say, "I like the way you losers thought Instagram before first aid. Fuck off.”
Source: Blue Lily, Lily Blue
“Behind him, his PA, Mrs Partridge, sat scratchpad in hand, making the Sphinx look like a collection of facial tics.”
Source: When a Child is Born
“Behind him Kaldar nudged Urow's youngest son. "Bet you he lasts at least thirty seconds." "Um..." Gaston looked at him. "No he won't." "Bet me something." "I don't have anything." Kaldar grimaced. "Pick up that rock." Gaston swiped the rock off the ground. "Now you have a rock. I bet this five bucks against your rock." Gaston grinned. "Deal.”
“Behind him, Mr. Schafer and the Sunborn Champion continued to bicker on a battlefield.
“After I see justice done, we’re going to have a talk,” the Sunborn Champion threatened. “If you can find anything to say for yourself!”
Most peculiarly, Mr. Schafer sounded like he was smiling. “You know me, Luke. I always have words.”
Source: Tears Waiting to Be Diamonds
“Behind him stood Wa’itari, who believed that a new world war was imminent and who expected to appear after the fall of Europe, as the first hero of Pan-African nationalism. Behind them stood, as in the shadow of all great causes, mere
bandits and murderers, as a pledge of earthly triumph. Behind them again, the silent awakening mass of the black peoples whose hour was striking, whatever happened. Behind them again, very far behind, and perhaps only in Morel’s heart, came the elephants.
'It was in fact a great cause, with the company a great cause always keeps: men of good will and those who exploit them, generous endeavor and sordid calculations, an ideal over the horizon, but also the treachery of ends justifying means. Man’s oldest company, I tell you, a noble cause and a pack of scoundrels behind it, a generous dream and all the purity that’s needed to cause great massacres ...”
Source: The Roots of Heaven
“Behind him the door creaked open. He spun round, clutching the sack to him, and saw three very sombrely dressed women watching him carefully. One of them was holding a kitchen knife in a trembling hand,
'Have you come here to ravish us?' she said.
'Madam! I'm being pursued by werewolves!'
The three looked at one another. To Vimes the sack suddenly seemed far too small.
'Er, vill that take you all day?' said one of the women.
Vimes held the sack more tightly. 'Ladies! Please! I need trousers!'
'Ve can see that.'
'And a weapon, and boots if you've got them! Please?'
They went into another huddle.
'We have the gloomy and purposeless trousers of Uncle Vanya,' said one, doubtfully.
'He seldom wore them,' said another.”
Source: The Fifth Elephant
“Behind him the lights of the lonely little store blinked out and there was only a street light shimmering on the corner, and the whole city seemed to be going to sleep.”
Source: Dandelion Wine
“Behind him the Master of Ceremonies cleared his throat. His eyes took on a distant, glazed look.The Stealer of Souls, he said in the faraway voice of one whose ears aren't hearing what his mouth is saying, Defeater of Empires, Swallower of Oceans, Thief of Years, The Ultimate Reality, Harvester of Mankind, the-ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT. I CAN SEE MYSELF IN.”
Source: Mort: (Discworld Novel 4)
“Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.”
Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
“Behind intimidating messages are simply people appealing to us to meet their needs.”
“Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?”
“Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am as little able to understand my environment as any primitive woman who thinks that a waterfall is inhabited by a spirit, and indeed less so, for her opinion might from a poetical point of view be correct.”
Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia
“Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,
“Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.”
“Behind lay loneliness and delusions. Ahead lay answers, and yes, Riley. So bent double beneath my load, but naked no longer, I followed the two demons deeper into Hell.”
“Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.”
“Behind many broken friendships there is a marriage.”