B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Beneath the mountain, there is another place called the valley. That is where you can discover many things that cannot be found on the mountain. Valleys, with their unique challenges and lessons, are just as important in your journey as the mountains.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“Beneath the nice book cover, camera angles, format of the page, size of the canvas, sound of the song – was someone with something to say.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“Beneath the notebook she found the book of fairy tales. The cover was green cardboard, the writing gold: 'Magical Tales for Girls and Boys', by Eliza Makepeace. Cassandra repeated the author's name, enjoying the mysterious rustle against her lips. She opened it up and inside the front cover was a picture of a fairy sitting in a bird's woven nest: long flowing hair, a wreath of stars around her head, and large, translucent wings. When she looked more closely, Cassandra realized that the fairy's face was the same as that in the sketch. A line of spidery writing curled around the base of the nest, proclaiming her "Your storyteller, Miss Makepeace.”
Source: The Forgotten Garden
“Beneath the ocean surface, bad things are happening. Increasing CO2 makes ocean water more acid, and that threatens to dissolve the shells of some ocean animals. Ouch, how'd you like to have your shell dissolve?”
“Beneath the people we think we are, there are funnier, happier, livelier people that we keep ignoring.”
“beneath the rosy sky
veiled in mist
the blooming meadow”
“Beneath the saccharine, air brushed girls-can-do-anything image is a ruthless contempt for women and girls who have not sold themselves to the right bidder by performing the neo-liberal strip tease of self-empowerment.”
Source: Misogyny Re-Loaded
“Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world”
“Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we live or rebel against the roles we play for fear of putting our sanity in doubt.”
“Beneath the skin, kin.”
“Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike.”
Source: Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou
“Beneath the skin, there is fear. Pain. Remorse. Yearning. Desire. A fierce longing for power. All of this. We are joined. It is as if we live in the center of a great storm. Around us the world of the realms revolves like a giant kaleidoscope, images refracted again and again. So many worlds! So much to know.”
Source: Rebel Angels
“Beneath the soil, the wheels of creation spin. A seed, dormant, is in slumber, and then comes the faint light. A new thrill flies in the air, and it wakes up to create a beauty, unseen. There comes the holy transformation.”
“Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow the heart to open.”
Source: The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West
“Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here.”
“beneath the stars that drift; she sighed and said
"Every tale of a love
can only be a tale of ghosts that linger
in these spaces we
can never hold,"—as the wind
gave echo”
Source: the ghost dancers
“Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful as a poet's dream, silent as a city of the dead.”
“Beneath the suit, a storm runs deep,
A dream he guards, a climb so steep.
He walks through noise with steady pace,
A quiet fire behind his face.
Life hits hard but he stands tall,
One setback? He’ll break that wall.
Not just dressed, he’s battle ready
Heart like thunder, focus steady.”
“Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade;
When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees.
So Fortune's smiles the fickle crowd pursues,
But swift is gone whenever she veils her face.”
“Beneath the surface level of conditioned thinking in every one of us there is a single living spirit. The still small voice whispering to me in the depths of my consciousness is saying exactly the same thing as the voice whispering to you in your consciousness. 'I want an earth that is healthy, a world at peace, and a heart filled with love.' It doesn't matter if your skin is brown or white or black, or whether you speak English, Japanese, or Malayalam - the voice, says the Gita, is the same in every creature, and it comes from your true self.”
Source: The Compassionate Universe: The Power of the Individual to Heal the Environment
“Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.”
Source: My Apprenticeship
“Beneath the surface of repartee and mock seriousness, [Plato's Phaedrus] is asking whether we ought to prefer a neuter form of speech to the kind which is ever getting us aroused over things and provoking an expense of spirit.”
Source: The Ethics of Rhetoric
“Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the mission of the United Nations in the century to come.”
“Beneath the surface of the protective parts of trauma survivors there exists an undamaged essence, a Self that is confident, curious, and calm, a Self that has been sheltered from destruction by the various protectors that have emerged in their efforts to ensure survival. Once those protectors trust that it is safe to separate, the Self will spontaneously emerge, and the parts can be enlisted in the healing process”
Source: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“Beneath the surface, unnoticed by many, an even deeper force was at work—the rise of creativity as a fundamental economic driver, and the rise of a new social class, the Creative Class.”
Source: The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded
“Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound.”
“Beneath the water, I can know her. She was fierce, uncompromising. When she loved, she loved deeply, passionately. She loved the blue-eyed water god. She owned him. His heart.
But then she felt betrayal, she hated, and she was feared.
Hate gave her power.”
Source: Beta
“Beneath the weight of shadows, my heart bears,
In the silence of night, burdened with despair.
Feelings entangled in a ceaseless strife,
Mind racing, lost in the labyrinth of life.
Right and wrong engage in an endless fight,
In the dim light, where truth hides from sight.
Life's essence, a phantom in the mist,
Restless soul wonders, does existence persist?
The night, a canvas for my silent debate,
Am I truly living, or is it just fate?
In the echoes of darkness, I seek the clue,
Beneath the shadows, is existence true?”
“Beneath the winter's snow lie germs of summer flowers.”
Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
“Beneath the worst the world can do, there is always the glimmer of the best.”
“Beneath their surface differences, there are a lot of deep, underlying differences.”
“Beneath them, Sune asks him to carve the only message he can bring himself to say:
You run on ahead.”
Source: The Winners
“Beneath these faces, these clothes, accents, rudeness, was power and sorrow, both unadmitted, unrealized, the power of inventors, the sorrow of the disconnected.”
“Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed
Their snow-white blossoms on my head,
With brightest sunshine round me spread
Of spring's unclouded weather,
In this sequestered nook how sweet
To sit upon my orchard-seat!
And birds and flowers once more to greet,
My last year's friends together.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, In: 1801-1805
“Beneath this great, glittering dome of stars and shard of new moon, Angela got the feeling, somehow, that she might belong to everything and everything to her.”
Source: Shark Heart
“Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.”
“Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.”
“Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.”
“Beneath worry, fear, stress and anger, there is something beautiful waiting to arise and be transformed.”
“Beneath your burdensome regrets and who you think you are through the lens of past mistakes, there is someone beautiful who wants to emerge.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Beneath your pain, the foundation of you is love, has always been. Even when people are unworthy of it, you give love with your whole heart. Even if it tears you to pieces.”
Source: Impostor Syndrome
“Beneatha: You didn't tell us what Alaiyo means... for all I know, you might be calling me Little Idiot or something... ... Asagai: It means... it means One for Whom Bread--Food--Is Not Enough.”
“Benedetto colui che ha imparato ad ammirare, ma non a invidiare, a seguire ma non a imitare, a lodare ma non a lusingare, a condurre ma non a manipolare.”
“Benedick looked to the ceiling as though begging for divine patience. Or for the Lord to strike his sister down. Callie couldn’t quite discern which.”
“Benedick Scott was on his way to freedom or profound failure or, if the usual order of things held up, both. Two chests, strapped closed and marked for delivery to an apartment in Manhattan, sat at the end of his bed. On his person he needed only his typewriter, slung over his shoulder in a battered case. He'd stuffed the case with socks to cushion any dinging, along with his shaving kit, a worn copy of Middlemarch, and thirty-four pages of typed future.”
Source: Speak Easy, Speak Love
“Benedick was about to lose his ally. He asked, "What was it again you needed me to do?"
Prince considered and said, "Favor Beatrice with your company?"
"I hate you," Benedick thought.
Prince smiled as if he'd heard him.”
Source: Speak Easy, Speak Love
“Benedict (Cumberbatch, who is playing Sherlock) looks amazing. He's still got a Sherlockian silhouette, with a large overcoat, but in a classic cut. Watson dresses with an urban elegance, a touch of old school dashing, giving a feeling of both the military and medical profession. I suppose it's something they have in common as well. They're a bit metrosexual.”
“Benedict Allen gives you the impression that he hasn't done any research at all, and I am sure he has. And when he is off doing his ice dogs and that sort of thing - and therefore its not only an exploration of the place but also his imagination in a sense. It's very successful as technique.”
“Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime...exempt[ion]...from responsibility for what you do thereafter.”
“Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it's also the response you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben Affleck.”