B Quotes
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“Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin.”
“Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.”
“Bicycles are pieces of art. You get that combination of kinetic engineering, but then, besides the welds, the paint jobs, the kind of the sculpture of it all is quite beautiful. Bikes have such great lines, and all different styles.”
“Bicycles are the new rollerblades, talentless is the new talented, and I'm in hog heaven.”
“Bicycling beyond the Divide did what all great books do: it told me about me. In its tale of a journey made by two different men-both of them Daryl Farmer-this book offers us not only moving vistas and meaningful people, but also hope, that rarest of literary commodities these days. I didn't want this to end.”
“Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.”
“Bicycling unites physical harmony coupled with emotional bliss to create a sense of spiritual perfection that combines one's body, mind and spirit into a single moving entity. Bicycling allows a person to mesh with the sun, sky and road as if nothing else mattered in the world. In fact, all your worries, cares and troubles vanish in the rear view mirror while you bicycle along the byways of the world: you pedal as one with the universe.”
“Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life..."It's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground.”
“Bid a singer in a chorus, Know Thyself; and will he not turn for the knowledge to the others, his fellows in the chorus, and to his harmony with them?”
“Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed,
And daffodillies fill their cups with tears,
To strew the laureate to hearse when Lycid lies.”
“Bid faith look through the key-hole of the promise, and tell thee what it sees there laid up for him that overcomes; bid it listen and tell thee whether it cannot hear the shout of those crowned saints, as of those that are dividing the spoil, and receiving the reward of all their services and sufferings here on earth.”
Source: The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War
“Bid for connection: Each of our daily interactions with another person.”
“Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply.”
Source: The Major Works
“Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee.”
“Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear”
“Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Bid me to live, and I will live
Thy Protestant to be:
Or bid me love, and I will give
A loving heart to thee,
A heart as soft, a heart as kind,
A heart as sound and free
As in the whole world thou canst find,
That heart I'll give to thee.”
“Bid me to live, and I will liveThy Protestant to be,Or bid me love, and I will giveA loving heart to thee.”
“Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.”
“Bid the dishonest man mend himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest.”
Source: Twelfth Night Or What You Will
“Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go.
[Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]”
“Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.”
Source: The Works of George Santayana: The sense of beauty. Poems. Lucifer. Overheard in Seville
“Biddanoa cumenzàt cun d’unu suspiru. Fut su suspiru de chini, apustis de nd’èssi calau ’e su trenu in punta ’e mesudì, ndi bessìat de su fossu accantu fut sa stazioni e dda bìat di attesu, sa bidda, in artu in d’unu monti, e bìat s’arziàda mala chi fut abettendiddu po ci arribai.
Is domus, bias de cussa distànzia, parìant allìgras, iscaringiàdas a arrìri, cun cuddu biancu a ingìriu de gennas e ventanas che una miràda beffiana ghettàda a is chi fùanta sudendu in s’ùrtimu trettu ’e s’arziadróxu chi acabàda in Cuccuru ’e Callia.”
Source: Po cantu Biddanoa
“Bidden or unbidden, God is present.”
“Bidding the wizard farewell, he turned to his daughter, who held up her finger and said, “Daddy, look — one of the gnomes actually bit me!” “How wonderful! Gnome saliva is enormously beneficial!” said Mr. Lovegood, seizing Luna’s outstretched finger and examining the bleeding puncture marks. “Luna, my love, if you should feel any burgeoning talent today — perhaps an unexpected urge to sing opera or to declaim in Mermish — do not repress it! You may have been gifted by the Gernumblies!” Ron, passing them in the opposite direction, let out a loud snort.”
“Biddy knew the trees as soon as Hutchincroft led her to them: three of them in a triangle, each slender and white-limbed, leaves turning golden brown and bristling with red berries. Rowan trees.”
Source: The Magician’s Daughter
“BIDEN: “Look, folks,” the president told the adoring crowd after his wife handed him the microphone, “you know, there, uh — I shouldn’t say this, but my brother always uses lines from movies. There was a famous movie by John Wayne, and— and he’s working for the, uh, the Northern military, trying to get the Apaches back on the reservation, and they were lying like hell to him. And they’re all sitting on a bluff, and John Wayne was sitting with two Indian — they were, they were tr — Apaches. And one of them looked at John Wayne and said, ‘These guys are nothing but lying, dog-faced pony soldiers.’ ” The crowd roared and laughed.
“Except, Trump’s just a liar,” Biden added.
No such line was ever said in any John Wayne movie.”
Source: Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
“Biding one's time is a very different thing from patience.”
Source: A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
“Biding time is easy -- and gets you nowhere.”
Source: A Man to Call My Own: A Novel
“Bieber has 10 million fans - most are in middle schools, or standing at least 500 feet away from one.”
“Biedny człowiek, jeśli nawet nie potrafi dobrze przeżyć jednego życia, chciałby ich przeżyć z dziesięć.”
Source: Noce i dnie t. I-II
“Biegler, you remind me of every REMF I ever met in a combat zone. You want a guaranteed result with zero risk, and your ass covered if the shit hits the fan. But that's not how it works in the real world. So please shut the fuck up and let me work here.”
Source: Third Degree
“Bien au-delà de l'utile et du futile, le nécessaire fait apparaître le monde des objets culturels comme accessoire, aliénants, encombrants, pesants, appauvraissants.”
“Bien des choses se sont détachées de moi. J'ai survécu à certain désirs; j'ai perdu des amis, les uns par la mort, d'autres par ma simple incapacité à traverser la rue.”
Source: The Waves
“Bien des choses se sont détachées de moi. J'ai survécu à certains désirs; j'ai perdu des amis, les uns par la mort, d'autres par ma simple incapacité à traverser la rue.”
Source: The Waves
“Bien différente eut été leur vie s'ils avaient su à temps qu'il est plus facile de contourner les grandes catastrophes conjugales que les minuscules misères de tous les jours.”
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“Bien - dijo después de una eternidad -.Quizás bien será nuestro siempre.
-Bien - dije”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“Bien eso ciertamente desafía a la lógica...
Como la mayoría de las cosas importantes en la vida, Ramsey.”
Source: Curse of the Worgen
“Bien lire l’univers, c’est bien lire la vie.”
“Bien loin qu'elle se voue à l'homme parce qu'elle se sait inférieure à lui, c'est parce qu'elle lui est vouée qu'acceptant l'idée de son inferiorité elle la constitue.”
Source: Le deuxième sexe, Tome II
“Bien plus que le vieux désir de sa balader ailleurs, c'est la pression de la société toute entière qui pousse le travailleur à rendre à l'auto ce gain qu'elle lui procure. C'est pour cela qu'elle l'enchaîne à la chaîne, et que pour être sûre qu'il ne la trahira pas, elle le condamne aux travaux forcés de l'achat à crédit. L'auto le lie au travail, et quand le travailleur est bien crevé, elle le mène se distraire là où il doit consommer.”
Source: L'Hommauto
“Bien poco se ha perdido cuando queda la honra.”
“Bien predica quien bien vive.
He preaches well who lives well.”
“Bien que les étoiles ne parlent pas, même en étant silencieux, ils crient. Although the stars do not speak, even in being silent they cry out.”
“Bien sabe Dios que es más peligrosa la pena que el odio, porque el odio puede destruir lo que odias, pero la pena lo destruye todo.”
Source: Malaherba
“Bien se nota que nunca ha sido humano: no tener destino es lo mismo que estar perdido en medio un tiempo infinito que nunca acaba.”
Source: El Discurso del Loco
“Bien sûr l'homme se transforme en ce qu'il fait, bien sûr. Mais cette ˝vie de substitution˝ constitue-t-elle, dans l'énigme de la vie, ce grand malheur que nous sommes tentés d'y voir ? Ne serait-ce pas l'Ange de Dieu ou Dieu lui-même qui nous guette au coin de la rue, qui nous a abordés un jour sans que nous le reconnaissions ? Et cette vie ne serait-elle pas apres tout la seule vraie ? /
■ Kdybych byl někdy v životě měl ctižádost překladatele, mohl bych být – možná, možná, kdo ví – spokojen. Kdybych byl býval někdy v životě měl ctižádost překladatele… Ale takhle… Samozřejmě že se člověk promění v to, co dělá, samozřejmě. Ale je „náhradní život“ v té nevysvětlitelné záhadě života vůbec vždycky tak velké neštěstí, za jaké je člověk považuje? Není to anděl boží nebo Bůh čekající za rohem, který k nám přistoupil a kterého jsme nepoznali, vlastně on ten pravý? Absolutní odvaha a absolutní pokora nejsou v rozloze jediného života tak neslučitelné věci.
(konec sešitu 34)”
Source: Celý život
“Bien sûr, lors des phases dépressives, il y a comme une pétrification de l'être. Mais de ce mauvais voyage, on revient avec un regard plus humble.”
Source: Vivre avec un maniaco-dépressif (Documents)
“Bien sûr on a des chagrins d’amour, mais on a surtout des chagrins de soi-même. Finalement la vie n’est qu’une affaire de solitude.”
“Bien sûr que la valeur est produite par le travail ! Quoique... Ne rejoint-on pas le credo solennel du marxisme du mouvement ouvrier, son "point de vue du travail", sa glorification du prolétariat "créateur de valeur" ? L'ironie de l'affaire veut du reste que le marxisme traditionnel comprenne son propre "point de vue" complètement de travers, puisque tout en affirmant que la "classe qui crée la valeur" est celle des producteurs, il cantonne néanmoins l'abstraction valeur à la sphère de la circulation.”
Source: The Substance of Capital