B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Being left-handed has its advantages in volleyball. Few people know enough about your spike and serve to give you advice.”
“Being lenient in affixing responsibility with a criminal is no different than a tacit justification of his actions. Any such justifications, if they exist, have to still affix responsibility.”
“Being less stressed doesn't mean that you stop doing things.”
“Being LGBT does not make you less human.”
“Being LGBT is not a choice. It's not about "a sexual proclivity." It's not a "lifestyle," as you put it. It's about our identity. Pride is a time when we come together to celebrate our community and when others do, too. Just as we do for other racial, ethnic, and religious groups that are part of the "tossed salad" nature of our society.”
“Being liberal I have hear democrat saying one thing but doing the opposite. I have seen the cities they run being ruined, the crime rate going high, and the school rating going down!”
“Being liberated means reading what you want to read, and fantasizing about what you want to fantasize about.”
“Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.”
“Being like stranded without a label in the middle of tour was very strange. On the other hand it made us move instantly. I mean, I didn't wallow. I was like, "Alright, who can we email? Let's just start putting stuff out." I felt like we were playing really well and it was at least worth a shot.”
“Being liked for the way you looked is worse than not being liked at all.”
“Being liked or not, having company or not, being understood or not, being acknowledged or not are not issues of concern on the spiritual path.”
“Being listened to should be sufficiently gratifying in itself, whether or not the advice is followed.”
“Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.”
“Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like.”
Source: When You Are Engulfed In Flames
“Being lonely and loving your own company are two very different things. Don't ever get them mixed up.”
Source: The Sky Is Purple
“Being lonely around everyone is the worst kind of loneliness.”
“Being lost but not realizing that we are lost is probably the most lost that any one human being can ever get.”
“Being lost does not suggest the absence of a map.”
“Being lost in Australia gives you a lovely feeling of security.”
“Being lost is the way, how else can you be found?”
Source: Bright Dark Madonna: A Novel
“Being lost is where the beauty lies. Lost in a book. Lost in someone’s eyes. Lost in a symphony so sweet it brings you to tears.” She smiles. “Lost in a beautiful floating city on a starry night. This is magical, yes? It’s being found that’s the disappointment.”
Source: The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany
“Being lost is worth the being found.”
“Being lost without grasping the rather obvious fact that we are lost is by far the best guarantee we have that we’re going to stay lost.”
“Being love, all you behold, is candles and the moon, ecstasy in the hands of agony. So you see, light rising from the sea of night.”
“Being love-filled and beautiful is almost unconquerable.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Being loved by all is little fun Unless you're also loved by one.”
“Being loved continuously when you believe that you're unlovable is like throwing salt on a wound. It stings like acid. You want it desperately, instinctively knowing deep down you were wired to need it. But the more love given, the more unworthy of love you behave, constantly trying to find ways to make up for the void and pain that reside like a monster inside your heart.”
Source: God Loves Ugly: & love makes beautiful
“Being loved is a good thing. A grand thing. The best damned thing of all.”
Source: High Stakes Seduction
“Being loved is life's second greatest blessing; loving is the greatest.”
“Being loved is not a biological need.”
“Being loved is one thing, being hated is another, but there's nothing worse than being ignored.”
Source: For Your Own Good
“Being loved is the problem, because love is a demand - when you're loved, someone wants more of you.”
Source: The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
“Being loved keeps you young.”
“Being loved means; are disagreements welcome in my relationships? If you cant disagree with someone then you live in a tyranny and if you live in a tyranny then you are only loved to the degree that you erase yourself and conform to the irrational expectations of bullies. That isn't love obviously.
Now if somebody in you life demands that you not disagree with them and gets angry, "offended", or outraged should you disagree with them then, that person is not a good person. It's pretty narcissistic. It's somebody who does not have the maturity, wisdom, and ego strength to handle, and in fact welcome disagreements.
When people disagree with me as a whole I think it's a great opportunity for learning. People don't want to expose topics that might cause disagreement because, if the disagreement is punished then the illusion of being loved by good people is shattered.”
“Being loving and kind is not only good for our surroundings, these also tonic for our heart.”
“Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either”
Source: The Keillor Reader
“Being mad at a drug addict for doing what drug addicts do, is like being mad at a shark for doing what sharks do, or being mad at a cockroach for doing what cockroaches do.”
Source: Sex and Crime: Oliver's Strange Journey
“Being mad is activating. Being sad can lead to hopelessness. I'm not hopeless. I'm very hopeful.”
“Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.”
“being made happy isn't receiving something new, it's being made to understand what we have.”
Source: Tomorrow Is Forever: A Novel
“Being made human without the possibility of BEING human; the cruelest of all punishments.”
“Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.”
“Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.”
Source: Everyone's Mark Twain
“Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.”
“Being made up of distinctions, language finds it almost impossible to express undifferentiation.”
Source: Violence and the Sacred
“Being magnanimous in victory usually worked, but to keep abreast of the situation he had to
pump the girl for all she knew. Was there a pang of remorse for his actions in his mind?
Possibly, but what choice did he have? If he wanted to survive, he had no room for weakness.”
Source: The Arbitrator
“Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a Gentleman is a matter of choice.”
“Being maniacal about something is very helpful.”
“Being Manny Pacquiao's wife is not easy. It's fun for me and my guys but it's very difficult for her.”
“Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.”