B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Blind obedience to books, whether it is the Bible, the Quran, the Vedas or any other, has erected more and more walls in this world - and to defend those walls, even more fences on both sides. Now the real question is, how much more time will humanity take to realize the obvious devastation that these disgusting walls of segregation have brought along and keep on bringing along in this world!”
Source: Let The Poor Be Your God
“Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads.”
“Blind people can stay up longer than someone with eyes.”
“Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.”
“Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters.”
“Blind people don't decide to see. Jesus says, 'See!' and they see.”
“Blind science tills vain colds,
mad Faith lives the dream of its cult,
a new God is only a word,
Don't believe or search,
all is hidden.”
Source: Indian Nocturne
“Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.”
“Blind spots and limiting beliefs can sabotage a person’s divine potential for greatness. You have to believe in yourself to imagine the best version of yourself and ignite the can-do mindset to make it happen.”
“Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.”
“Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first and they scattered as I came upon them.”
Source: War Horse
“Blind Thrust makes good use of Marquis' background as a professional geologist. It is the novel's characters, however, that really stand out. Charles Quantrill is far from a cardboard villain, and as for the heroes, Joe and John Higheagle have a particularly endearing rapport. For suspense fans who enjoy science mixed with their thrills, the novel offers page-turning pleasures.
--BlueInk Review”
“Blind to all fault, destiny can be ruthless at one's slightest distraction.”
Source: Ficciones
“Blind to your labor, they will surely reap the results.”
“Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.”
“blind wantons like the gulls who scream
And rip the edge off any ideal or dream.”
Source: Selected poems
“Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.”
“Blind with love, my daughter
has cried nightly for horses,
those long-necked marchers and churners
that she has mastered, any and all,
reigning them in like a circus hand.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“Blind yourself, for I am blind.”
Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author
“Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a rock in the midst of the waves.”
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
“Blinded allegiance disallows knowledge of choosing and authenticity.”
“Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within.”
“Blinded by the opaque veil of mortality, her eyes are always sealed, like a tomb She wants to know- wants to feel that fire, the brightness of the moon So she searches for light, only to realize its in her, like an ember equipped to ignite.”
“Blinded following the Blindfolded”
“Blinded, now, in more than one way, Gail made Kaida co-owner and the sole beneficiary of her home, secretly, away from her other daughters and their heirs.
Kaida told her children that she and Gail had created a “trust bequest” for them but advised them to keep the secret from the rest of the family.
When the Quit Claim Deed was filed in county records, it was returned to Kaida’s name, not to Gail.
Unfortunately for the rest of the family, this mother-daughter relationship had become so intertwined and interdependent, it was difficult to see which one was the host tree and which one was the strangler fig.
The tree, now grown tall, would bloom in the foreseeable future. Only a death certificate and affidavit needed to be filed in order for Kaida to claim her mother’s full estate.”
Source: The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch
“blinded visionary that locks the moon in place;
I am the simple sieve that drinks the universe.”
Source: In the Next Galaxy
“Blindheid is een wapen tegen ruimte en tijd; ons bestaan is één ontzettende blindheid, op het weinige na dat we via ons nietig verstand – nietig zowel van nature als in zijn reikwijdte – waarnemen. Het dominerend principe in de kosmos is blindheid. Deze maakt een naast elkaar bestaan van dingen mogelijk, dat onmogelijk zou zijn wanneer ze elkaar zagen. Zij staat het afkappen van de tijd toe waar deze ondraaglijk is. Wat is bijvoorbeeld een kiemkorrel anders dan een brokje leven dat zich tot het opnieuw geroepen wordt in blindheid hult? Om de tijd, die een continuüm is, te ontgaan, bestaat maar één middel. Wanneer men van tijd tot tijd de ogen voor hem sluit, is het mogelijk hem in de stukken te breken die men van hem kent.”
Source: Het martyrium
“Blindheit zieht man sich nicht zu, Den Tod zieht man sich auch nicht zu, und trotzdem sterben wir alle.”
Source: Blindness
“Blinding by passion has such a devilish power that its authority over people knows no boundaries. Nothing can interfere with it: neither age, nor experience, nor position in society”
“Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!”
“Blinding, mineral, shattering silence. You hear nothing but the quiet crunch of stones underfoot. An implacable, definitive silence, like a transparent death. Sky of a perfectly detached blue. You advance with eyes down, reassuring yourself sometimes with a silent mumbling. Cloudless sky, limestone slabs filled with presence: silence nothing can sidestep. Silence fulfilled, vibrant immobility, tensed like a bow. There’s the silence of early morning. For long routes in autumn you have to start very early. Outside everything is violet, the dim light slanting through red and gold leaves. It is an expectant silence. You walk softly among huge dark trees, still swathed in traces of blue night. You are almost afraid of awakening. Everything whispering quietly. There’s the silence of walks through the snow, muffled footsteps under a white sky. All around you nothing moves. Things and even time itself are iced up, frozen solid in silent immobility. Everything is stopped, unified, thickly padded. A watching silence, white, fluffy, suspended as if in parentheses.”
Source: A Philosophy of Walking
“Blindly, Grace pushed away from the velvet-lined wall...
Right into the path of a giant as tall and as hard as an oak.
A firm hand caught her about the waist as strong fingers captured her wrists. She blinked the sting of unshed tears from her eyes to find herself entangled not with an oak, but with a man possessed of dark brown hair and dangerous golden eyes. A wry smile curved his lips as the orchestra began the opening strains of a waltz.”
Source: The Earl's Defiant Wallflower
“Blindly inheriting idols reflected how polytheism froze critical thinking. A stone statue might be designed to appear awe-inspiring, but its inherent lack of physical dynamism signified a stagnant worldview. The Qur’an repeatedly invokes the Arabic term for idol—sanam—literally, “frozen in time.”
Source: The Life of the Qur'an: From Eternal Roots to Enduring Legacy
“Blindly seeking to destroy what we fear also destroys the opportunity that we have to grow from it. And if there’s something that we should probably fear, it’s being blind and destroying opportunity.”
“Blindness brought with it a million adjustments and losses and emotions. But, there really was this unshakeable sense, deep within me, that God had already prepared me for the darkness. And he did it through his Word.”
“Blindness enhanced my spiritual life.”
“Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.”
Source: Seven Nights
“blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.”
“Blindness is far more a state of mind than it is a condition of the eyes.”
“Blindness is never the absence of that which we are blind to.”
“Blindness is not the inability to see. Rather, it is the choice not to see.”
“Blindness separates people from things;
deafness separates people from people.”
“Blindness to knowledge was his mother and despair of death his father. Darkness and fear gave birth to God. Awareness of truth will kill him.”
Source: Survive Ruinland: Chronicles of Lauren Vasquez
“Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.”
Source: A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
“Blindness to the aesthetic element in mathematics is widespread and can account for a feeling that mathematics is dry as dust, as exciting as a telephone book... Contrariwise, appreciation of this element makes the subject live in a wonderful manner and burn as no other creation of the human mind seems to do.”
Source: The Mathematical Experience: Study Edition
“Blinds and Curtains used in home and office, then change tha environment different.”
Source: Industrial Psychology
“Blindsided, I had a mild stroke after the termination notice email.”
Source: Freshly Laidoff
“Blindsight is excellent. It's state-of-the-art science fiction: smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one. Like a C J Cherryh book it makes you feel the danger of the hostile environment (or lack of one) out there. And it plays with some fascinating possibilities in human development, and some disconcerting ideas about human consciousness. What else can I say? Thanks for giving me the privilege of reading this.”
“BLINDSIGHT is fearless: a magnificent, darkly gleaming jewel of a book that hurdles the contradictions inherent in biochemistry, consciousness, and human hearts without breaking stride.”
“Blindspot and Person of Interest are the best films ever made. They aren't films, but they are series.”