B Quotes
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“Brene Brown writes: "Joy comes to us in moments - ordinary moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary."
I had been trying to chase dewn the extraordinary when actually I already had everything I would ever need.”
“Brenna is not suffering. She has periods of hurt and of discomfort, and she has endured intense pain during hospitalizations and surgeries. But on a daily basis, she is not suffering; she is thriving and happy.”
Source: A Different Beautiful: Discovering and Celebrating Beauty in Places You Never Expected
“Brenna jumped to her feet the second Father Sinclair entered the chamber. "I'm so happy to see you," she cried out. "Be happy sitting down," Jamie ordered, hovering over her patient like a mother hen.”
Source: The Wedding
“Brenna Kelly, meet Alice Price-Healy. Grandma, meet Breanna. No one is shooting, stabbing or immolating anyone in this hotel room."
"Please," added Dominic. "I have to sleep here."
"HAIL!" Rejoiced the mice. "HAIL THE LACK OF STABBING, SHOOTING AND FLAME!”
Source: Chaos Choreography
“Brenna was fixing some kind of a small computronic device when he found her in her quarters. “Judd,” she said, putting down her tools. “You can’t be here. The dissonance—” He interrupted her panicked words. “I need to ask you something important.” “What could be more important than your life?” She sounded close to tears. “Your life. If you die, I don’t know if I’d stay sane.” A simple truth.”
Source: Caressed By Ice
“Brennan didn’t look exactly like Raif to Shayla’s eyes, but for someone who didn’t know either man particularly well, they probably looked like twins, separated at birth by twenty or so years.”
Source: Conditioned Response
“Brennan, you are so corny Monsanto is trying to patent you and I love it.”
Source: Scars in Time: A Novel
“Brenna’s eyes widened. Raising a hand, she brushed his hair gently off his forehead. “Why do I keep telling you things I swore I’d take to my grave?” The contact shot electricity through his nerves. “Because you know I’ll always be your shield against the nightmares.”
Source: Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series
“Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world, as a language develops and acquires names for color, the colors always enter in the same order. The most primitive are black and white. Then red. Then either green or yellow.”
“Brent had a love-hate relationship with the Government. He hated what it had become over the years and loved to make an issue about it.”
Source: Absolute Intolerance
“Brent Kessel combines some of the most sophisticated knowledge of financial planning and investment strategies with a sincere and grounded practice in the meditation arts. He has written the deepest and most comprehensive book about money in some time. I applaud him for it. It calls for a serious reading.”
Source: TheSeven Stages of Money Maturity by Kinder, George ( Author ) ON Mar-03-2008, Paperback
“Brent never trusted anyone who couldn’t look him in the eye. It was a sign of dishonesty.”
Source: The Spy Files
“Brent's fingers... traced the unmistakable line of Mike's cock ring. He smiled broadly at Mike and said, "Mikey, am I in for some trouble?" Mike grinned back at him, "You better believe it, boyfriend!" he replied as he scooted back a little and dove his mouth on to Brent's ... from While the Summer Lasts”
Source: While the Summer Lasts
“Brent sat down on the sun-warmed dock, the old wood scratching the smooth skin of his naked butt. Mike sat down beside him and they sipped their beers in silence for a while." After the Storm”
Source: After the Storm
“Brent Weinbach made [Gangster Party Line].I guess I saw it when it first came out. And that is so goddamn funny to me. The guys are real dudes and they're not good, but they're also good enough.”
“Brent, you’ve been a lawyer for 35 years. You should know by now that innocence is irrelevant in the law. You’re never found innocent. If the prosecution wins, you’re guilty. If they fuck up, you’re not guilty, but you’re never innocent.”
Source: Bad Company
“Brentford gave the polite smile of a man who talks daily with a living mechanical head about a city in the Arctic Circle governed by hermaphrodite Siamese twins born from a dead woman, and refrained from further comments about the probable and improbable.”
Source: Luminous Chaos
“Bret Easton Ellis, taking on the narrative garb of a mass murderer in American Psycho, was, surprisingly, never himself a mass murderer (at least according to a lot of people–I won’t comment on what he sometimes does to an English sentence).”
Source: How to Read
“Brethren, be mindful of the truth that the deliberate act of sinning, will eventually take us to the point of no return and that is the tragedy of all. Hardened and stiff-necked in sin, we grow cold to all rebuke and discipline. The gentle whisper of the LORD will be gone. The repeated grieving of the Spirit will result in the quenching of the Spirit. Therefore, any desire to seek the Father’s Home is lost! Beware!! Watch your steps!!!”
“Brethren should have love in their heart to break bread.”
“Brethren, take note of this, as long as the LORD disciplines you, you are on a safer side. If you are not disciplined by the LORD, be afraid! The only possibility is that the LORD would have left you to command your own ship which is ultimately going to wreck. (Hebrews 12: 5 to 11)”
“Brethren, you won’t believe what I discovered. I found out that in every place, people listened to the message (the shift our churches need) with full attention and total bewilderment. The question that I kept on hearing was: “why are other Christian ministers not doing the same thing?”
“Brethren, 225,000 of you are here tonight. I suppose 225,000 of you may become gods. There seems to be plenty of space out there in the universe. And the Lord has proved that he knows how to do it. I think he could make, or probably have us help make, worlds for all of us, for every one of us 225,000.”
“Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect.”
“Brethren, do something; do something, do something! While societies and unions make constitutions, let us win souls. I pray you, be men of action all of you. Get to work and quit yourselves like men. Old Suvarov's idea of war is mine: `Forward and strike! No theory! Attack! Form a column! Charge bayonets! Plunge into the center of the enemy! Our one aim is to win souls; and this we are not to talk about, but do in the power of God!'”
“Brethren, happiness is not our being's end and aim. The Christian's aim is perfection, not happiness; and every one of the sons of God must have something of that spirit which marked his Master.”
Source: Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series
“Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.”
“Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God.”
“Brethren, the Deity was not revealed to gratify our curiosity, or to increase our pride of intellect, but to bring us into relations of affection, submission, and communion with Him.”
Source: Discourses: Doctrinal and Practical
“Brethren, the just man shall scarcely be saved. What, then, will become of the sinner?”
“Brethren, understand that the gospel is a gospel which brings a present salvation; and try to feel that it is not presumption, but simply out of the very fundamental principle of it, when you are not afraid to say, "I know that my Redeemer is yonder, and I know that He loves me.”
Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture
“Brethren, who are we that God should have been so good to us?”
“Brett Favre plays for championships. That's the only reason he puts up with all of this stuff. He's going to start to figure out, if it's true, that the Packers are not going to be competing for championships. The moment that comes into his heart - oh my gosh, the Packers are not going to be able to make it - that's the day he retires. It won't take much once he realizes that's where the Packers are going.”
“Brett Kavanaugh is a brilliant, brilliant judge and one of the most-distinguished conservative jurists in the country.”
“Brett will need some clothes if someone can drop some by.”
“All we need is a bear rug,” Meghan said.”
Source: Between a Wolf and a Hard Place
“Brevity - the sister of talent.”
“Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.”
“Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.”
“Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.”
“Brevity Is Best: Nicknamed "Silent Cal," President Calvin Coolidge was once challenged by a reporter, saying, "I bet someone that I could get more than two words out of you." Coolidge responded, "You lose." The notion of crafting six word memoirs really took off after Smith Magazine shared this poignant one written by Ernest Hemingway: "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn."
Pithiness Pays Off For Other Reasons: When required to be brief, for example, we gain clarity about what we really mean -- or have to offer. As Mark Twain once wrote, in a slower-paced time, "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
Source: Mutuality Matters How You Can Create More Opportunity, Adventure & Friendship With Others
“Brevity is confidence. Length is fear.”
Source: Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less
“Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.”
“Brevity is the soul of command. Too much talking suggests desperation on the part of the leader. Speak shortly, decisively and to the point–and couch your desires in such natural logic that no one can raise objections. Then move on.”
“Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”
“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
“Brevity makes us fall in class and gravity makes us fall in mass”
“Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you.”
Source: Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.
“Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.”
“Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.”
“Brew me a cup for a winter's night.
For the wind howls loud and the furies fight;
Spice it with love and stir it with care,
And I'll toast our bright eyes,
my sweetheart fair.”