B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private... and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind.”
“Beyond the Applause
Who doesn’t love the roar of applause? It’s sweeter than honey, richer than gold. Your chest swells, your spirit soars. You stand taller, basking in the glow. The moment is yours—you shine, you celebrate, you sing.
But what happens when the cheers fade? When the drums fall silent and the crowd moves on? When the praise that once lifted you now lifts another? Will you still sing when no one is listening?
The truth is, applause is fleeting. Change is the only constant. The spotlight doesn’t belong to you—it merely passes by. If you’re good, remember: someone is better. There will always be someone wealthier, more beautiful, more captivating. Chasing approval is a race without a finish line.
Imagine building your life on the applause of others—shaping every choice, every belief, just to please the crowd. You’ll never measure up. You’ll trade your convictions for trends, your dignity for nods of approval. Stripped of authenticity, you’ll wear borrowed robes, never truly your own.
The wise stand beyond the applause. They live behind the curtain of public opinion, anchored in what lasts: love for God, devotion to family, the pursuit of true joy, and faith that overcomes. They welcome praise but aren’t defined by it. Their worth comes from something deeper.
So when the clapping ends, they keep singing. Because their song was never for the crowd—it was for the soul. And in that quiet place, they’ve found something unshakable. They’ve found safety beyond the applause.”
“Beyond the application process, various external factors can impact school enrolment, ranging from demographic shifts to competitive pressures in the local education landscape.”
“Beyond the astral dimensions are the causal dimensions. They are not spatial or time oriented. They are planes of light, and they make up the outer limits of nirvana.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure
“Beyond the beauty of external forms, there is more here: something that cannot be named, something ineffable, some deep, inner, holy essence. Whenever and wherever there is beauty, this inner essence shines through somehow. It only reveals itself to you when you are present.”
Source: Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now
“Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.”
“Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.”
“Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change are much more deadly, from the growing desertification of Africa to the threats of rising sea levels and the submersion of small island nations.”
Source: The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope
“Beyond the boundaries of herself, her parents and the enclosing garden walls, were open fields and other waiting places she still knew nothing of – lies of the land, perhaps. What Katie did know is that out there in the lonely nowhere was a special quietness, free of the sounds of daytime birds or foxes at night – and that it was a quietness she might like to listen to one day.”
Source: Sleeping with the Sun
“Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population!”
“Beyond the closed door, better doors are waiting for you. Open them with virtue.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“Beyond the closed door, do not break the law. You can still find legal ways to access open doors.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“Beyond the closed door, do not put your life on hold; seek wisdom on how you can move on.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“Beyond the closed door, go out there and explore. Find freedom to lend your voice.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“Beyond the closed door, God can open better doors.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“Beyond the closed door, God can still restore what you lost.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“Beyond the closed door lies a flicker of hope where better stories can still be told.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“Beyond the closed door lies a shining light that can change many lives.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“Beyond the closed door, seek wisdom, seek to be restored and seek to respond to the call of God.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“Beyond the closed door, there is a better door that is free from storms and filled with wisdom.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“Beyond the closed door, there is God looking at the original script and redirecting you to a route you may have missed. So be still. Trust in Him.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“Beyond the closed door, there is more you can still achieve if you never cease to believe.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“Beyond the closed door, you should be willing to explore the possibility of other doors opening for you.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“Beyond the closed doors are endless opportunities in store. Make the most of them all.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“Beyond the closed doors, search for the right mentors. Those who can help you explore new horizons.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“Beyond the clouds, above people, beneath the skin, inside people, we’re waiting for you. We see you now, as you read. We’ll see you when you stop thinking about these words. Above and inside your face, we know your secrets. We know what you hide from yourself. You can’t escape us. We hold your heart in the palm of our hand. If we like, we can squeeze it. If we like, we can crush it. There’s nothing you can do to stop us. Our gaze notices your every single move and your every single word. Say a word now. Make a move. We smile at your words, as we smile at your silence. No one will be able to protect you. No one can protect you now. You’re even less than you imagine. We’ve seen a thousand generations of men like you. It was our pleasure to let them walk on the lines of our hands. It was our pleasure to take everything away from them. We guided entire generations of men through tunnels we built that led nowhere. And when they arrived at nothing, we smiled. You’re just like them. We’re waiting for you above and inside your face. Continue on your way. Follow that line of our hand. We know where that tunnel you walk through will end. Keep on walking. We see you and smile. Beyond the clouds, we are fear. Beneath the skin, we are fear.”
Source: Antídoto
“Beyond the clumsy, brute force tools of will, determination and hard work — and free from the heavy attachment of want, and the illusions of burden and blocks, is the true technology of creation through beingness.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Beyond the coming and going, ..is the ineffable wonder, the music of stillness, the sense of mystery. that wonderment where you shake your head in deep reverence knowing, this is the eternal music of life...”
“Beyond the corridor of our space-time there are infinite numbers of universes, each of them is governed by its own set of laws and physics.”
Source: Enlightenment Step by Step
“Beyond the cultural differences that must be bridged in any international effort, combined with factors of national politics, priorities, and values, we continue to grapple with the essential paradox of public health that began our discussion: when the system is working effectively, it is a silent venture and there are relatively few outbreaks of disease. These very successes lead most of us down a complacent path of false confidence, apathy, and assumptions that the endless dance is over. To complicate matters further, microbes themselves are hardly monolithic or permanently settled beings. For every attempt we make to destroy or weaken them, they respond with an equal and opposite force. The goal of both sides is to assume leadership of the evolutionary waltz ever in progress.”
Source: When Germs Travel: Six major epidemics that have invaded America since 1900 and the fears they have unleashed
“Beyond the dead and the undead,
there is a valley of life.
You shall find me there,
where neither happiness nor misery,
but love is the measure of life.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Beyond the deepest tragedy there is laughter; even in the midst of tragedy there is always the possibility for laughter.”
“Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again.”
“Beyond the earliest days of the religion, early Christians were believers because they'd been converted, not because they were witnesses to supernatural events, just like today. The 9/11 hijackers believed in Paradise for martyrs, but that doesn't mean that that's true. We have no good reason to imagine that eyewitnesses wrote the gospels rather than someone simply documenting the Jesus story as it had developed within their church community.”
“Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“Beyond the edge of universe,
there's a kind of real darkness...
where even the light gone astray.”
Source: Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“Beyond the ego and vanity,
there is a space where night seeks its full moon lover.
Where light comes down as a ball of ecstasy,
the full flower bloom of pearl.
The sky is pregnant with the moon.”
“Beyond the Einsteins and Darwins, most scientists don't have chroniclers. Einstein and Darwin were geniuses - that helps. Many scientists do amazing stuff, but it just disappears into footnotes and dusty medical journals. If I were masochistic enough, I could spend the rest of my life rescuing scientists. Most of them aren't natural self-promoters.”
“Beyond the element of giving, the active characteristic of love becomes evident in the fact that it always implies certain basic elements, common to all forms of love. These are care, responsability, respect and knowledge”
Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“Beyond the emotionalism and the obvious sense of relief on all sides, I think that there is a recognition that reality may intrude, that perhaps the steps ahead and the days ahead are going to be much more difficult than one expects.”
“Beyond the fact that it is a limitless arena for the full play of human nature, there is no sure accounting for golf's fascination... Perhaps it is nothing more than the best game man has ever devised.”
“Beyond the family or particular Christian tradition, how much effort do we make to consider what the Mennonites or the Episcopalians, the Baptists or the Pentecostals, the Methodists or the Presbyterians have to say to the rest of us out of their DIFFERENCES, as well as out of the affirmation in common with other Christians? As I suggested earlier, our patterns of ecumenicity tend to bracket out our differences rather than to celebrate and capitalize upon them. Finding common ground has been the necessary first step in ecumenical relations and activity. But the next step is to acknowledge and enjoy what God has done elsewhere in the Body of Christ. And if at the congregational level we are willing to say, 'I can't do everything myself, for I am an ear: I must consult with a hand or an eye on this matter,' I suggest that we do the same among whole traditions. If we do not regularly and programmatically consult with each other, we are tacitly claiming that we have no need of each other, and that all the truth, beauty, and goodness we need has been vouchsafed to us by God already. Not only is such an attitude problematic in terms of our flourishing, as I have asserted, but in this context now we must recognize how useless a picture this presents to the rest of society. Baptists, Presbyterians, and Roman Catholics failing to celebrate diversity provide no positive examples to societies trying to understand how to celebrate diversity on larger scales.”
Source: Making the Best of It: Following Christ in the Real World
“Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one's very heart - its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life.”
Source: Heart of darkness: an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, ess ays in criticism
“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.”
Source: Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
“Beyond the Final Water falling,
The Songs of Spheres recalling,
Won’t you return to me?”
“Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them experiences and ideas in common. These constitute a kind of shorthand of ideas which helps make communication quicker and more efficient. That is what we mean when we say figuratively of another person, We speak the same language.”
“Beyond the futility of armed force, and ultimately more important, is the fact that war in our time inevitably results in the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. To put it more bluntly, war is terrorism. That is why a 'war on terrorism' is a contradiction in terms.”
Source: A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
“Beyond the gadget there is a world of humans that can take away your gadget as soon as you misuse it.”
Source: Jadu
“Beyond the grasp and greed lies another world, that which is mystical and transcendental, which settles the unsettling thoughts silencing us with enchantment.”
“Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.”
Source: Grand Inquisitor