B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull. Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain.”
Source: The Art of War
“Bravery without kindness leads to brutality.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Bravery without sword is like slavery without lord.”
Source: The Devil's Gate: An Impossible Journey
“Bravery without vision is a loose cannon, and vision without bravery is a search for a cannon. But put both together, and you have an armada.”
“Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.”
Source: Anne Tyler: Four Complete Novels
“Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.”
“Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.”
“Bravo can't be responsible for the mental state of every single person that comes onto their network.”
“Bravo," said Grimalkin, peering down from Cold Tom's chest. "The Winter prince and Oberon's jester agreeing on something. The world must be ending.”
Source: The Iron King
“Bravura has nothing to do with technique. It's all about timing and oozing life.”
“Braxton Cosby's stories feel personal and well thought-out. I'm happy to welcome this entertaining writer to the YA science fiction field. I look forward to more of his work!”
“Brayden met my eyes. His were hazel, almost like Eddie’s but with a little green. Not as much green as Adrian’s, of course. No one’s eyes were that amazingly green.”
Source: The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel
“Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds.”
Source: The Poems of Sir William Watson: 1878-1935
“Brazen and shameless, and at their own mortal peril, they had waged etheric war, anticipating that their own midi-chlorians, the Force’s proxy army, might marshal to boil their blood or stop the beating of their hearts. Risen out of themselves, discorporate and as a single entity, they had brought the power of their will to bear, asserting their sovereignty over the Force. No counterforce had risen against them. In what amounted to a state of rapture they knew that the Force had yielded, as if some deity had been tipped from its throne. On the fulcrum they had fashioned, the light side had dipped and the dark side had ascended.”
Source: Darth Plagueis
“Brazen it out! Throw away the scabbard! Grit your teeth, buckle down, and die with your boots on! Or in other words, be determined and resolved until you accomplish the thing you set out to accomplish.”
Source: Eena, The Companionship of the Dragon's Soul
“Braziers blaze, and the sky is thick with sea spray and incense. The ground beneath us is moon-blooming phlox.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running round the pitch playing with themselves.”
“Brazil and Germany are very similar, but in Brazil we have a much longer career. There are much more books that have been published just there.”
“Brazil does have every right to develop its own peaceful nuclear programme.”
“Brazil goes into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country.”
“Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil is dealing with is poverty and political corruption.”
“Brazil has its own fashion identity. Many very talented Brazilian designers show every season at Sao Paulo and Rio fashion weeks.”
“Brazil has no future as a China with fewer people.”
“Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us.”
“Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land.”
“Brazil is in a solid position. In the past, if the United States sneezed, we caught pneumonia. Today, if the United States sneezes, we sneeze too.”
“Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means: "you don't have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality."”
“Brazil is not what you see but what you feel. Once you spend time here - a week, two weeks - you get in the vibe. It's really intoxicating.”
“Brazil is one of the biggest Latin American countries, the biggest, no doubt, and, more importantly, it is a country with immense development potential.”
“Brazil is where I belong, the place that feels like home. They love their family, their country and God, and are not afraid to let anybody know it.”
“Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots.”
“Brazil obviously connotes something in my mind to do with desire, sexuality and freedom. In fantasy, in mythology, Rio is the iconography of the imagination. In essence, we're all sex tourists. I've never been to Rio and I've never been to a psychoanalytic convention, but in a sense, Rio is symbolic of desire, some sort of ultimate ecstasy.”
“Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost.”
Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's
“Brazil was, is, and will be in fashion.”
“Brazil will change when its cities change.”
“Brazil, I'm totally obsessed. I've been going since I was 17, and the first time I went, I fell in love with it.”
“Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies.”
“Brazilian women are taught to take care of themselves. They start their beauty routine at a young age, which is the key to aging beautifully.”
“Brazilians need to work on their own national pride. I always think that they suffer from national low-self esteem. It's a lesser-developed country, and they have struggled so much. Sometimes they have an attitude that, if it's Brazilian, it can't be good.”
“Brazilians tend to have that weakness, they get emotional. You can easily get them upset and get them out of their comfort zone. They're clever too and very gifted athletes but they have that emotional thing, which we Europeans also have a little bit of.”
“BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.”
“Braćo, ne bojte se grijeha ljudskog, volite čovjeka i u njegovu grijehu jer ta je ljubav slična božanskoj ljubavi i vrhunac je ljubavi na zemlji. Volite sva stvorenja Božja, i cjelinu i svako zrnce pijeska. Volite svaki listak, svaku zraku Božju. Volite životinje, volite biljke, volite svaku stvar. Budeš li volio svaku stvar, spoznat ćeš i tajnu Božju u stvarima. A kad je jednom spoznaš, upoznavat ćeš je neprestano, svakog dana, sve bolje i bolje. Najposlije ćeš zavoljeti cijeli svijet sveobuhvatnom, svemirskom ljubavlju. (...)
Pred gdjekojom mišlju staneš u nedoumici, pogotovo kad vidiš grijehe ljudske, pa se pitaš: "Da se poslužim silom ili poniznom ljubavlju?" Uvijek se radije odluči za "poniznu ljubav". Ako se tako odlučiš jednom zauvijek, možeš cijeli svijet pridobiti za se. Ponizna je ljubav strahovita snaga, najmoćnija od sviju, njoj nema ravne na svijetu. Svakog dana i sata, svake minute ispituj se i pazi na sebe da ti vanjština bude dolična. Prošao si, recimo, mimo malog djeteta, prošao si srdit govoreći ružne riječi, s gnjevom u duši; možda nisi ni opazio djeteta , ali je ono vidjelo tebe, i tvoj je možda ružni i zazorni izgled ostao urezan u njegovu nezaštićenu srcu. Nisi to znao, a možda si mu baš time bacio u dušu zlo sjeme koje će zacijelo jednog dana niknuti, a sve samo zato što se nisi suzdržao pred djetetom, što nisi uzgojio u sebi djelatnu i brižljivu ljubav. Ljubav je, braćo, učiteljica, ali je treba znati steći, jer se teško stječe i skupo plaća, dugim radom i na dugu stazu, jer ne smije se voljeti samo na trenutak i slučajno, nego do kraja života. Slučajno može svak zavoljeti, čak i zlikovac. Moj brat mladac molio je i ptice za oproštenje: to je naoko besmisleno, a ipak ima smisla, jer je sve kao ocean, sve teče i dodiruje se, na jednom mjestu dotakneš, a na drugom se kraju svijeta osjeti. Ako je i ludo ptice moliti za oproštenje, i pticama bi bilo lakše, i djetetu i svakoj životinji oko tebe kad bi bio bar malo plemenitiji nego što jesi, bar malčice plemenitiji. Sve je kao ocean, kad vam kažem. Onda bi se i pticama počeo moliti, prožet općom ljubavlju, kao u kakvu zanosu, i molio bi se da ti i one oproste grijeh tvoj. Čuvaj taj zanos, koliko se god on ljudima činio besmislen.”
“brb, ttyl ok? wow, i saved a 'ton' of time with those acronyms.”
“Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“Bread”
“Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory but an instrument for self-expression, on which each can play music to his own choosing.”
Source: The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold
“Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?”
Source: Is nothing sacred?
“Bread cannot feed the addicts of beauty.”
“Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.”