B Quotes
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“Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.
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“Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.”
“Behold the day-break!
I awaken you by sitting on your chest and purring in your face,
I stir you with muscular paw-prods, I rouse you with toe-bites,
Walt, you have slept enough, why don't you get up?"
(From Meow of Myself, from LEAVES OF CATNIP)”
Source: Poetry for Cats: The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse
“Behold, the day of revelations is now upon mankind, and soon the seven judgments shall be poured out upon the earth.”
Source: Ezekiel's Eyes
“Behold the Drojim Palace," King Urgit said extravagantly to Sadi, "the hereditary home of the House of Urga." "A most unusual structure, You Majesty," Sadi murmured. "That's a diplomatic way to put it." Urgit looked critically at his palace. "It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.”
“Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!”
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
“Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.”
“Behold the heart and mind of Angela Davis: open, relentless, and on time! She is as radiant, she is as true, as that invincible sunrise she means means means to advance With all of the faith and all of the grace of her entirely devoted life.”
“Behold the Heart which has so loved men that it has spared nothing, even to exhausting and consuming Itself, in order to testify Its love.”
“Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”
“Behold the life at ease; it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course.”
Source: Poems of George Meredith
“Behold the male beast roaring in the jungle for his mate," said Elphaba. "See how the female beast giggles behind a shrub while she organizes her face to say, Pardon dear, did you say something?”
Source: The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz
“Behold... the ocean in a drop. A perfect sphere of salted grief and joy, a prism through which the entire universe is refracted. It is not water; it is the condensed essence of the soul's longing for the divine. It is a messenger from a distant shore.”
“Behold the power of the truth. When people see its shadow on the wall, they don't want to take the time to look away.”
“Behold the pre-prophetic symbols of the planes of Never. Behold, behold this thisness! This isness.”
Source: The Immeasurable Equation: The Collected Poetry and Prose
“Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.”
Source: Writings
“Behold the threaden sails,
Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,
Breasting the lofty surge”
Source: Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V
“Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.”
“Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?”
“Behold the world,where I stoop to dwell in,
where no chasms that safe my varying dim views,but has the e'er longing for nature's inn,
silent her breeze,that lulls my tiresome eyes.”
Source: Halcyon Wings: 'These passions feathers are gathering on a winged vision'
“Behold the world,where I stoop to dwell in, where no chasms that safe my varying dim views, but have the e'er longing for nature's inn,
silent her breeze,that lulls my tiresome eyes;”
Source: Halcyon Wings: 'These passions feathers are gathering on a winged vision'
“Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!”
“Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!”
“Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“Behold thine immortal Self resurrected with Christ in the light of illumination, present in every soul, every flower, every atom!”
“Behold this day. It is yours to make.”
“Behold this little Bane- The Boon of all alive- As common as it is unknown The name of it is Love.”
Source: Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them
“Behold Vo Mimbre," Mandorallen proclaimed with pride, "queen of cities. Upon that rock the tide of Angarak crashed and recoiled and crashed again. Upon this field met they their ruin. The soul and pride of Arendia doth reside within that fortress and the power of the Dark One may not prevail against it." "We've been here before, Mendorallen," Mister Wolf said sourly.”
Source: Queen of Sorcery
“Behold, we go up to Jerusalem. Matt. xx. 18.
Never had there been such a going up to Jerusalem as that which Jesus here proposes to His disciples. He goes up voluntarily. The act was not enforced by any external compulsion. Jerusalem might at this time have been avoided. It was deliberately sought. It was a going up to a triumph to be reached through defeat, a coronation to be attained through ignominy and humiliation.
O believer, in your walk through the world today, be strengthened, be comforted, be inspired, by the spectacle of the Captain of your salvation thus going up to Jerusalem! And remember, in all those apparently downward passages of your life, where sorrow, and it may be death, lie before you, that all such descents, made or endured in the Spirit of Jesus, are really upgoing steps, leading you to the mount of God and the resurrection glory.”
“Behold yon rough and flinty road
Where youth, now youth no more,
Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loaves
He cast away of yore.”
“Behold your little ones. Pray with them. Pray for them and bless them. The world into which they are moving is a complex and difficult world. They will run into heavy seas of adversity. They will need all the strength and all the faith you can give them while they are yet near you. While they are young, pray with them that they may come to know that source of strength which shall then always be taught of the Lord' and great shall be the peace of thy children.”
“Behold your new mistress, my wife," he pronounced, "and know that when she bids you, I have bidden you. What service you render her, you are rendering me. What loyalty you give or withhold from her, you give or withhold from me!" -Royce Westmoreland”
Source: A Kingdom of Dreams
“Behold your world! The judgments you believe just created it.”
“Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.”
“Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!”
“Behold, directly overhead, a certain strange star was suddenly seen . . . Amazed, and as if astonished and stupified, I stood still”
“Behold, for years and generations, the way of God has been leveled by the cross and by death. How is this with thee, that thou seest the afflictions of the way as if they were out of the way? Doest not thou wish to follow the steps of the saints? Or doest thou wish to go a way which is especially for thee, without suffering? the way unto God is a daily cross. No one can ascend unto heaven with comfort, we know where the way of comfort leads.”
“Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.”
“Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.”
“Behold, I am weary of my wisdom,
like a bee that has gathered too much honey;
I need hands outstretched to receive it.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Behold, I am writing anew, through scribes on Earth who are willing to listen to me again with new ears, in the light of the present crises on planet Earth.”
Source: The revelation: our crisis is a birth
“Behold, I have reached the peak of the mountain and my spirit has taken flight in the heavens of freedom and liberation. I have gone far, far away, O children of my mother; the hills beyond the mists are now hidden from my view, the last traces of the valleys have been flooded by the ocean of serenity, and the paths and trails have been erased by the hand of oblivion. The roar of ocean waves has faded. I no longer hear anything but the anthem of eternity, which harmonizes with the spirit.”
“Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.”
Source: The Bait of Satan, 20th Anniversary Edition: Living Free from the Deadly Trap of Offense
“Behold, I make all things new.”
Source: The Complete Collection (with the book
“Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!”
“Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy! Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!”
“Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor.”
Source: Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647
“Behold, O Lord, that I am indignant with myself, for my senseless, profitless, hurtful, perilous passions; that I loathe myself, for these inordinate, unseemly, deformed, false, shameful, disgraceful passions; that my confusion is daily before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me. Alas! woe, woe! O me, how long?”
Source: The private devotions of Lancelot Andrewes
“Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.”
Source: The Odyssey of Homer
“Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar”