B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Behind the debris of these self-styled, sullen supermen and imperial diplomatists, there stands the gigantic figure of one person, because of whom, by whom, in whom, and through whom alone mankind might still have hope. The person of Jesus Christ.”
“Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is the reality of enormous wealth in the hands of a few, while billions of people in the world are hungry, sick, homeless.”
Source: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
“Behind the depressing silence of the sea, the silence of God …. the feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent.”
Source: Silence
“Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.”
“Behind the disability, we have a heart and a mind.”
“Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in the last analysis reflects the tendencies and ideology of the antagonistic classes in modern society.”
“Behind the eyelid of the sunset is a sleeping eye next to the one it loves, and an eye waiting for the return of the one it loves, another is filled with tears of nostalgia for whom it loves. I am waiting for your return. Emy”
“Behind the Eyes of every soul
Lies the imprint of life’s journey”
Source: Poison's Kiss: A Collection of Poems and Verses
“Behind the facade of elected government are a bunch of corporate controlled gangsters running the country.”
“Behind the facade of elected government are the leaders of industry.”
“Behind the Fan cover is a hit! Congratulations to Talia’s Book Covers for placing 3rd in the E-Book Cover Design Awards. Judge quoted as stating that the cover design is, “A visually arresting image”
Thank you Talia for sharing you amazing talent!”
Source: Behind the Fan
“Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.”
“Behind the fury, he was tired. He was tired of being hauled around and shoved into a little room. He was tired of trying for me and failing. And to have Minias know it, to be carted off under his leash…It was almost insulting. Maybe, if I gave Al a night of peace to lick his wounds and his pride, he would grant that same courtesy to me?”
“Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.”
Source: The Crying of Lot 49
“Behind the high-rises are the crumbling, crowded buildings where the lower-income people live. No answer has been found to their housing problems because the real estate people say there's not enough profit in building homes for them. And beyond them are the middle-income people, who can't make it to the high-rises and can't stay where they are because the schools are inadequate, the poor are pushing toward them, and nothing is being done about their problems, so they move to the suburbs.
When their children grow up and they retire, maybe then they can move to a lake front high-rise.”
Source: Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago
“Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.”
Source: Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 8
“Behind the house at the Rue Fossette there was a garden--large, considering that it lay in the heart of a city, and to my recollection it seemed pleasant: but time, like distance, lends to certain scenes an influence so softening; and where all is stone around, blank wall and hot pavement, how precious seems one shrub, how lovely an enclosed and planted spot of ground!”
Source: Villette
“Behind the Iron Curtain, dinner told the truth.”
Source: Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire
“Behind the lens, I found refuge and freedom, distance and connection, an intoxicating way to tame the huge, chaotic world.”
Source: Summer of Storms
“Behind the love of God lies His imniscience - His ability to "know and understand all." . . . At all times, even in the midst of any type of suffering, I can realize that He knows, loves, watches, understands, and, more than that, He has a purpose.”
Source: Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions
“Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.”
Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot
“Behind the mask beats a loving heart, willing to save others.”
Source: Seven Voices:
“Behind the mask of calm lies a sea of unspoken pain.”
“Behind the mask of diplomatic and political cooperation and partnership with the United States and Europe, the current Russian leaders are following the strategy of their predecessors and working towards a 'New World Order'. When the right moment comes the mask will be dropped and the Russians with Chinese help will seek to impose their system on the West on their own terms.”
Source: The Perestroika Deception: Memoranda to the Central Intelligence Agency
“behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.”
“Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.”
Source: Forty-four Juvenile Thieves: Their Characters and Home-life : [With Bibl.].
“Behind the mask of pessimism there is nothing more than this pathetic fear that spends every waking moment of its day fearing that we might actually succeed.”
“Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.”
Source: Society Of The Spectacle
“Behind the murder of millions of Negroes annually in Africa is the well organized system of exploitation by the alien intruders who desire to rob Africa of every bit of its wealth for the satisfaction of their race and the upkeep of their bankrupt European countries.”
Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans
“Behind the net of all your mind-made memories, thoughts, desires,
Shines the light of your own being,
See it - be it.”
“Behind the newspaper Julian was withdrawing into the inner compartment of his mind where he spent most of his time. This was a kind of mental bubble in which he established himself when he could not bear to be a part of what was going on around him. From it he could see out and judge but in it he was safe from any kind of penetration from without. It was the only place where he felt free of the general idiocy of his fellows. His mother had never entered it but from it he could see her with absolute clarity.”
Source: Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
“Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.”
“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.”
Source: Bully!
“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.”
“Behind the panic: financial warfare over future of global bank power”
“Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home.”
Source: Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India
“Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.”
Source: A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies
“Behind the podium, he had a glass of water, and he picked it up. The glass was crystal clear, as was the water. He put the glass to his lips, and filled his mouth with as much of the water as he could. Then he tilted the glass back into its upright position, and carefully let the water fall out of his mouth back into the glass.
“Does anyone want to drink from this glass of water?” he asked the audience with confidence.”
Source: The Dinner Party
“Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.”
“Behind the scenes, there is a Master of the Universe leading you to a better road. It does not matter how long it rained in your life, one day the sun will shine again. No matter how empty your cup may be, only a matter of time before it overflows. Do not worry because the Lord knows a lot you do not know. You are not on your own. So, hold on!”
“Behind the scenes there is a secretive, undeclared war of revenge that's already under way.”
“Behind the screen of the ballot, the real holders of power ... are the great industrial and monetary monopolies who own our national economic life.”
“Behind the shadows there lies defeat; Fancy the light where her smile greets.”
Source: Plumage
“Behind the steps that Misery treads Approaching Comfort view: The hues of bliss more brightly glow Chastised by sabler tints of woe, And blended form, with artful strife, The strength and harmony of life.”
Source: The works of Thomas Gray,: containing his poems and correspondence, with memoirs of his life and writings
“Behind the sternness of his voice there was a shackled anger, and beneath that shackled anger there was a buried pain.”
Source: Hopebreaker
“Behind the story I tell is the one I don't...Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear.”
Source: Two Or Three Things I Know for Sure
“Behind the story of every successful person, there is a story of betrayal and perfidy”
“Behind the subconscious mind is the superconscious mind. The power of God within you, the power of limitless control, lies in the superconscious mind. That mind cannot be suggested with failure, but it can be eclipsed by the suggestion of failure. The superconscious mind is the all-knowing intuitive consciousness of the soul. That mind can be tapped in deep concentration and in soul-contact in meditation.”
Source: To Be Victorious in Life (Self-Realization Fellowship)
“Behind the transient reality, there is something else. It is a deeper, more permanent and unchanging reality that we Buddhists call nirvana.”
“Behind the unfolding of night is a divine intelligence that, inside the swell of dark, makes the moon and stars. That is how darkness finds its light.”