B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Besides, no one can keep me away from my fish. Thank you, by the way, for the crate of fish you left for me. They are a delight. Come, let us go down to the sea.”
Source: Remarkable Creatures
“Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“Besides, nothing mattered to her any longer. If she had anything left it was her horror of cold — and the uncle had coal through his contacts. But she found the atmosphere of Berlin hard to bear. She dreamed of escape, of going to live under some more clement sky, far, very far away from it all, closer to nature.”
Source: The Roots of Heaven
“Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.”
“Besides one should not believe that the people only want reading that is easy to absorb.”
“Besides our eyes, skin and the other senses through which we receive the shadows of the exterior reality, we have a 'mental eye' (intelligence) with which we can perceive reality as it is.”
Source: Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
“Besides P.E., geography was my best class in high school. I was in this gifted class when I was younger, and it was wicked!”
“Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.”
Source: Epochs of American History
“Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.”
“Besides problems of traditional societies, the Caucasus has to cope with quite a few unsettled territorial conflicts that also nurture authoritarian governmental structures.”
“Besides prostitution, magic is one of the oldest art forms that exist.”
“Besides, rats survived so well because they were rats. They knew when to keep quiet and they knew when to squeal.”
Source: Dragon Soul
“Besides re-arming myself with joy, I need to know the holes in my defenses, the places where I'm vulnerable and where the enemy has successfully attacked me before.”
Source: Pilgrimage: My Journey to a Deeper Faith in the Land Where Jesus Walked
“Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.”
Source: Miracles: A Preliminary Study
“Besides religious founders, we also have political party leaders, both are visionaries who build their foundations on a cult of worship, big promises and great beliefs.”
“Besides," said Suriyawong. "This was not a rescue operation."
"What was it, target practice? Chinese skeet?"
"An offer of transportation to an invited guest of the Hegemon," said Suriyawong. "And the loan of a knife."
Achilles held up the bloody thing, dangling it from the point. "Yours?" he asked.
"Unless you want to clean it," said Suriyawong.
Achillese handed it to him. Suriyawong took out his cleaning kit and wiped down the blade, then began to polish it.
"You wanted me to die," said Achilles quietly.
"I expected you to solve your own problems," said Suriyawong.”
Source: Shadow Puppets
“Besides Scream, I liked The Purge. It stuck with me because it reminds me of boxing - you have 45 minutes to punch someone legally without consequence.”
“Besides singing "Jump Around" to all the WWE superstars in the locker room? Uh... I enjoy listening to music, pumping up, and getting really muscular and oily. I like to oil myself before.”
“Besides so long as a man has not been actually killed he is our fellow-creature, though perhaps a very unpleasant one.”
Source: Erewhon
“Besides stage magic props and settings, ritually abusing groups use technology, such as that described by Katz and Fotheringham. Military/political groups have the most sophisticated technologies, and much training or programming is now done with virtual reality equipment. Movies and holograms are used to deceive a child into believing in things that are unreal.
When a client says to you “I don't know if it's real; how can it be real?” remember that there are several options, not just two: (1) It happened just as s/he remembers; (2) it did not happen at all; (3) something happened, but due to technology and/or trickery it was not what s/he thinks it was; (4) the thought that the memory must be unreal is itself a program, as described in Chapter Twelve, “Maybe I made it up."
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Source: Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
“Besides surfing, I play tennis, volleyball, I swim, I run hills, or I do high-intensity, high-interval workouts. I'm up at 5 A.M. every day.”
“Besides that, he thought it was essential for them to learn how to get up in front of people & express their ideas clearly & freely without being embarrassed, so he decided to put his theory into practice.”
Source: Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window
“Besides that, I believe one thing: there is a Lord God! And this Lord God creates the peoples.”
Source: Speeches and Proclamations, 1932-1945: The years 1939 to 1940
“Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.”
“Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.”
“Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition”
Source: Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues
“Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
“Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.... Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
“Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I was an escapist at heart . . . that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one. It’s true that I’ve always been able to yank myself out of this world and plunge myself into another.”
Source: Die for Me
“Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of the Haze..., Grant me, Oh Lord, a sunny mind- Thy windy will to bear!”
Source: Questa è la mia lettera al mondo: poesie
“Besides, the charango was definitely starting to sound better. He was either getting the hang of it or succumbing to auditory hallucinations. Magnus chose to believe it was the former.”
Source: What Really Happened in Peru
“besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.”
Source: Crusade Against Ignorance
“Besides the daydreaming and getting lost in a fun story, my favorite thing about writing is the creation process. I find it both thrilling and addictive. As a writer, I form everything in my head before describing it in words: people, worlds, cultures, music, dialogue, relationships, and so on. The possibilities of creation are limitless for a writer, and that is the allure.”
“Besides the drugs and counterculture, I started talking about myself, which is the first thing you do when you are a writer.”
“Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately.”
“Besides the fear of ending up with the totally wrong person, the first time between two persons is underscored by two things: desire and awkwardness. The awkwardness of the first time when two individuals touch each other is never lost on the young...or the old.”
“Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.”
“Besides the gifts, the only thing that gave the headstones colour were the memories family and friends had of the people they represented.”
Source: Misadventurous
“Besides the guilt of sin and the power of sin, there is the stain of sin.”
“Besides the local residents, Meraud frequently entertained visitors from other parts of the world. There was an extremely eccentric Spanish marquise, a royalist who had fled Franco and was plotting the return of the monarchy to Spain. She was an aggressive lesbian who seemed to expect Meraud to provide her with a female companion. Meraud balked at this, complaining that she had no intention of procuring for any of her guests. One day the marquise showed me the jacket of a book she had written about the Spanish War under a male pseudonym, featuring a photo of the marquise cross-dressed as a man, with a fake mustache to enhance the illusion.”
Source: Nice Guys Don't Work in Hollywood: The Adventures of an Aesthete in the Movie Business
“Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.”
“Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level.”
“Besides the money aspect, I guess I was curious about sex work. In the way that most people are, but also because ever since I was a teen I had read feminist writers like Dworkin and Mackinnon and the way they wrote about sex work had an enormous impact on me. Was it really as horrible as they said?”
“Besides the moral courage required to accept commissions in the Fifty-fourth at the time it was organizing, physical courage was also necessary, for the Confederate Congress, on May 1, 1863, passed an act, a potion of which read as follow: -
Section IV. That every white person being a commissioned officer, or acting as such, who, during the present war, shall command negroes or mulattoes in arms against the Confederate States, or who shall arm, train, organize, or prepare negroes or mulattoes for military service against the Confederate States, or who shall voluntarily aid negroes or mulattoes in any military enterprise, attack, or conflict in such service, shall be deemed as inciting servile insurrection, and shall, if captured, be put to death or be otherwise punished at the discretion of the Court.”
Source: History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1863-1865
“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”
“Besides the obscurity arising from the complexity of objects, and the imperfection of the human faculties, the medium through which the conceptions of men are conveyed to each other adds a fresh embarrassment.”
Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution
“Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumphs and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside. One moment, you'd start to call her to tell her a snippet of news or to vent about your awful day before realizing you did not have that right anymore; the next, you could not remember the digits of her phone number.”
Source: Handle with Care: A Novel
“Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country.”
Source: Mule
“Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain exaltation and eternal life.”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one.”