B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”
“Better to write twaddle, anything, than nothing at all.”
“Better too much form than too little.”
Source: Bacon's Essays
“Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.”
“Better trust all, and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart, that if believed Had blessed one's life with true believing.”
Source: Poems
“Better try to stay wide awake, or you might end up found dead by the lake.”
“Better undead than dead.”
Source: Dark Pursuit
“Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.”
“Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.”
“Better unity, than division!”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“Better untaught than ill-taught.”
“Better use has been made of association and this powerful instrument of action has been applied for more varied aims in America than anywhere else in the world.”
Source: Democracy in America
“Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.”
“Better use of space, improving the insulation, getting more daylight into the buildings, reducing the energy consumption of the air conditioning and heating systems, making sure that the internal air quality is good, that we have increased natural ventilation opportunities in the mid seasons. You know these are some of the things we can do.”
“Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.”
Source: Orlando (Annotated): A Biography
“Better was largely irrelevant when it came to mothering because the entire enterprise relied on the presumption that one day, sooner than you thought, your child would become an entirely self-reliant, independent person who made her own decisions. That child wouldn't necessarily remember the Halloween costumes you made from hand six years running. Or maybe she did, but she resented you for it because she'd wanted store-bought costumes just like all her friends. It didn't matter how great a mother you tried to be; eventually every child waled off in to the world alone.”
Source: The Last Romantics
“Better watch her. She burns other people's books.”
Source: Girls' Last Tour, Vol. 1
“Better watch out said a second voice from somewhere under the Beetle. Don't park those two kraut cars too close together; it's springtime, and they might decide to mate. then Charlie'll be stuck with a garage full of little orange safety cones”
“Better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent E. coli 0157:H7 infections are badly needed.”
“Better we raise our skill than lower the climb”
“Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.”
Source: Miscellaneous works
“Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms.”
“Better world. Better life for everybody, every worker. Poor kids oughta be able to go anyplace their brains will take them. Not where Daddy or Mommy's pocketbooks can send them. Everybody oughta have health care, everybody oughta have some retirement security, every American. Every one. Everybody oughta have a decent good job. That's what I believe in, and that's what I fight every day to try to achieve.”
“Better you don't search for who you are until you know who it is you want to find.”
“Better you experience the humiliation of being beaten by a creature who ought to be your inferior. And every time you think of how disgusting mortals are- with their pocked skin and their decaying teeth and their fragile, little minds- I want you to think of this moment, when you were lower than ever that. And I want you to remember how you willingly submitted, because if you don't, you will have to leave Hollow Hall and my mercy.
'Now, little brother, you must choose a future.'
It turned out that Cardan didn't have a heart of stone after all. As he removed his shirt and sank to his knees, as he fisted his hands and tried not to cry out when the strap fell, he burned with hatred. Hatred for Dain; for his father; for all the siblings who didn't take him in and the one who did; for his mother, who spat at his feet as she was led away; for stupid, disgusting mortals; for all of Elfhame and everyone in it. Hate that was so bright and hot that it was the first thing that truly warmed him. Hate that felt so good that he welcomed being consumed by it.
Not a heart of stone, but a heart of fire.”
Source: How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
“Better you than Cameron " McGillicuddy grumbled. "I know where Cameron's been."
Sean snorted.
Cameron said "I already told you I did NOT come on to Lori.”
Source: Endless Summer
“Better, Cilla thought, to be alone on a quiet night than to be alone in a crowd. Much better.”
Source: The Novels of Nora Roberts
“Better--while life is quick And every pain immense and joy supreme, And all I have and am Flames upward to the dream ... Than like a taper forgotten in the dawn, Burning out the quick.”
Source: The Ghetto, and Other Poems
“Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.”
“Betterment of where I belong matters.”
“Bettie Page was number one. I have never known another model who had better knowledge of her body or how to work with it to make it look so good. Her skin was perfect, no blemishes. Perfect nose, beautiful straight teeth, and gleaming, shiny black hair that was always in place, always.”
“Bettie Page was the first person to do bondage as fashion, because for her it really was all about dressing up.”
“Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.”
“Betting completely on HTML5 is one of the, if not THE biggest strategic mistake we've made.”
“Betting stimulates the caring glands. That is where there is so much caring at the racetrack.”
“Bettman is an asshole. A frikkin asshole. I think he's ruined the game of hockey. He's supposed to be impartial. He's supposed to speak for the good of the league, but in my opinion, he's strictly behind the owners. Those 1996 rule changes are a joke”
“Betty died of a broken heart. Some people laugh when they hear that phrase, but that's because they don't know anything about the world. People die of broken hearts. It happens every day, and it will go on happening to the end of time.”
Source: Collected Novels Volume Four
“Betty from down the street was one of those creatures who seemed to be operating under the notion that if she ever stopped talking, even for a second, she'd die.”
Source: Residue
“Betty inhales sharply, 'It's just I thought I had lost you forever.' Oh, Betty, don't you know there's no such thing as forever?”
“Betty realized that when it came to relationships with other human beings, she would always feel alone. And yet there was this place – this small special place inside of her – a place where quiet beauty was embraced, a place where memories became fantasies and where fantasies became memories. Like a pebble, Betty could lose herself within this place, this opulent ocean, and yet even if the water were to one day reject her too, even if it were to cast her back up onto its shores, she knew that she would catch the light of the sun again.”
Source: Of Being Underground and Moving Backwards
“Betty returns in a couple of minutes, setting down our pots of tea and two towers of treats. There are small tea cakes dressed as mini presents, tarts in the shape of flowers, chocolate-covered strawberries sprinkled with edible pearls, macarons decorated with pressed violets, and a tray of scones accompanied by tiny finger sandwiches. She explains each tea before leaving us to indulge.
Aphrodite's Ambrosia--- a blend of caramel, rose hips, white chocolate, and raspberry.
Midsummer Moondrop--- a confection of violets, butterfly pea flower, and sugar plums.
I lift the porcelain cup to my lips, hand painted with tiny cornflowers and gold leaf. The sweet, dark blend relaxes my muscles like a dreamspell.”
Source: Dance of the Starlit Sea
“Betty’s accent was everything Cent’s wasn’t-deep and New England. Her ending R sounds were more like an H, and her word choices…they’d all but needed dictionaries to understand each other when they’d met the year before.”
Source: Cleaning House
“Betty’s body had remembered what her mind had long forgotten.”
Source: Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
“Betty sighed in relief as she told her admirer everything she wanted to say. Seeing his exquisite surroundings, she did not want to pretend to be something she was not.”
Source: Our Time to Love
“Betty took him for a walk in the zoo and he was amused by her evident belief in the curative power of animals. She seemed to think that it must steady him to look at a buffalo.”
Source: Miss Lonelyhearts: & the Day of the Locust
“Betty was a great shark of a woman. Men died in her wake.”
“Betty White is probably a very nice woman.”
“Betty White is the First Lady of Television in her own right. She inspired me to write among other artists.”
“Betty White met with President Obama at the White House. President Obama invited Betty personally because she's great with animals. And the president's still having a tough time house-training Joe Biden.”
“Betty White's Sue Ann Nivens was classic... She had done so much with that man-crazy character! Betty made every moment count. She still does. I've declared her an American treasure, because she is just that.”