B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and aim toward increasing the sustainability of our world. I urge public officials, scholars, and students in public policy programs to place this volume on their list of must-read books. It is a powerful antidote to the overly simplified proposals too often offered as solutions to contemporary problems at multiple scales.”
“Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild.”
“Brianna dropped the skateboard in front of Sam. "Don't worry: I won't let you fall off." "Yeah? Then why did you bring the helmet?" Brianna tossed it to him. "In case you fall off.”
“Brianna! Is Sam okay?” Astrid cried.
“No. Drake tore him up.” She wanted to sound tough, but the sobs came bubbling up and overtook her. “Oh, God, Astrid, he’s hurt so bad.”
Astrid gasped and covered her hand with her mouth. Brianna put her arms around Astrid and sobbed into her hair.
“Is he going to die?” Astrid asked, voice wobbly.
“No, I don’t think so,” Brianna said. She stood back and wiped her tears. “I gave him something for the pain. But he’s messed up, Astrid.”
Source: Hunger
“Brianna’s looking for Drake,” Edilio said, thinking out loud.
“You sent her out against Drake?” Albert demanded.
“Sent her? Who sends Brianna out to get into a fight? She goes on her own. Anyway, it’s not like you’ve left us with anyone else.”
Albert had the decency not to say anything to that.
“You know, you guys put me in charge. I didn’t ask to be in charge. I didn’t want to be in charge. Sam was in charge and all you guys ever did was give him grief,” Edilio said. “You two, especially.” He pointed at Albert and Astrid. “So, okay, Astrid takes over. And then Astrid finds out it’s not so much fun being in charge. So it’s like, okay, let’s get the dumb wetback to do the job.”
“No one ever—,” Astrid protested.
“And me, like a fool, I’m thinking, okay, that must mean people trust me. They asked me to be in charge, be the mayor. Come to find out, I’m not making decisions; Albert’s making decisions. Albert’s deciding we need to find more water and sending our two best fighters off into the countryside. Now I’m supposed to fix everything? It’s like you go, ‘Fight a war,’ but you sent my army off on a wild goose chase.”
Source: Plague
“Briar Rose awakens to grace us with her gentle presence once more."
"Shut up," says Vol.
"Your thorns are showing.”
Source: Endgame
“Briar waved a hand and gave a tinkling happy laugh. He flinched. This was unbearable. The lass was as fresh and pretty as a daisy and seemed just as oblivious to her own charms as a garden flower was, too.
She smelled much better than a daisy, however. Daisies were highly overrated flowers. When you got up close to one, they smelled disappointingly like manure. No, Briar Blakeley smelled like something delicious. Like something you wouldn’t mind popping straight into your mouth. Like cake baked with vanilla and cinnamon. Or a confectionary’s shop.
She was sweet as honey, probably twice as naive, and something about her was making his blood pound and his loins tighten. The sooner he could get rid of her the better.”
“Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know." Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?”
“Briar: "They never tell you some things. They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all kinds of secrets. Nobody ever mentions that some secrets you don't ever want to learn." Rosethorn: "All you can do is learn good to balance the bad. Learn and do all the good within your reach. Then, if you wake in a sweat, you have something to set against the dream.”
“Briarwood is the pretty poison. There is no cure for Briarwood.”
Source: Queen of the Darkness: The Black Jewels Trilogy 3
“bribery: (n.) invisible grease that makes politics go round and round.”
Source: The Angel's Dictionary
“Bribes and boy bands. That’s all you need to be a babysitter.”
Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
“Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations”
“Bribes over two dollars are tax deductible”
Source: Looking for Alibrandi
“Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.”
“Bribing was a subtle and even gracious art. It was considered in better taste to bribe indirectly. For example, one could offer a generous donation to a 'charitable' cause, chaired by the official's wife; or sell him a piece of property at a fraction of its actual value; or buy something from him (e.g. a painting) for a sum far in excess of its value.”
Source: Russia Under the Old Regime
“Brick and blood built Astapor, and brick and blood her people.”
Source: A Storm of Swords
“Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.”
“Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.”
“Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want”
“Brick walls are there for reason. And once you get over them-- even if someone has practically had to throw you over-- it can be helpful to others to tell them how you did it.”
Source: The last lecture
“Brick walls let us prove how badly we want our dream and they stop those who don't want it enough. Brick walls let us show our dedication.”
“Brick walls towered over her. Decrepit staircases crowded about her. Nothing had changed. The line there, the lessons there, the rape there. Shouldn't the place be crimson with blood and black with shame?”
Source: A Memory Between Us
“Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in”
Source: The House on Mango Street
“Bricks are independent but can work well with other, tough to crack, fiercely loyal and put in the right spot will hold anything and everything that you’ve ever held dear with the greatest of ease.”
“Bricks should be made in Spring or Autumn so that they may dry uniformly.”
“Bricks will be most serviceable if made two years before using; for they cannot dry thoroughly in less time. When fresh undried bricks are used in a wall, the stucco covering stiffens and hardens into a permanent mass, but the bricks settle and the motion caused by their shrinking prevents them from adhering to it, and they are separated from their union with it. At Utica in constructing walls they use brick only if it is dry and made five years previously, and approved as such by the authority of a magistrate.”
“Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.”
“BRICS must provide a united and clear voice in shaping a peaceful, balanced and stable world. We must harness each other's strengths, in knowledge, skills and resources.”
“BRICS should be driven by 'People to People' contact. It should explore developing innovative mechanisms of Youth engagement.”
“Bricul acesta n-a existat.. Nu exista Rosman, nu exista Yusuf, nu exista bricuri. Nu mai exista speranta.. dar exista ceva care exista : SCUFUNDAREA! Daca nu putem pluti impreuna , ne vom scufunda impreuna. Rabdarea este un drum, oricem drum are un capat.. noi suntem la capatul lui.. capatul drumului.”
“Bridal is always about who you are as a person and as a woman and as a lover and as a mate. People always ask me how a woman can pick just one dress. And the funny thing is they always know.”
“Bridal is very much a performance - it is the one grand event in every woman's life.”
“Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.”
Source: 100 Selected Stories
“Bride, n. - A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.”
Source: The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)
“Bridegroom means, groom your bride. This goes beyond the bloom of costume in the dressing room. You’ll so ‘perfume’ her till she begins to assume what you desire to consume. This way, any looming gloom is doomed and the ‘volume’ of your bliss will zoom to high heavens.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Brides, nymphs were called, but that is not really how the world saw us. We were an endless feast laid out upon a table, beautiful and renewing. And so very bad at getting away.”
“Brides today are increasingly sensitive to the tastes, feelings and finances of their attendants.”
“Bridesmaids are never going to upstage the bride.”
“Bridesmaids proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves.”
“Bridey’s kiss was the ultimate contradiction: bittersweet, soft yet hard, taking Caleb to the Celestial and Stygian realms all at once. And it made him want her more, despite how much he despised the idea.”
Source: Winter's Thrall
“Bridezellia was like General Patton she had an Operations Room, HQ established in her sitting room. Wall charts, to do lists, pictures, contact lists, mood charts, a calendar, list of dates and jobs were marked off with daily duties in her thick black diary. Her second in command was Saoirse, her local wedding planner. Nothing was going to be left to chance and nobody was going to ruin her prefect day. No expense was to be spared and fools were not suffered gladly. Raised voices were constantly heard in her phone calls to suppliers. Her personality changed and she became a hot head, losing her patience easily. Nobody entered her sitting room, the twilight zone without an invitation”
“Bridge burned from end to end,
and I don't miss you anymore.
You delivered silence
I've birthed freedom.”
“Bridge is a game for the undivided intellect.”
Source: The Magic of Shirley Jackson
“Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives.”
Source: Wisdom of the 90s
“Bridge is nowhere; over the bridge, you feel an emptiness inside you. Bridge is nowhere.”
“Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better.”
“Bridge is the king of all card games.”
“Bridge loans provide short-term financing until long-term financing is secured. If you’re having trouble getting full financing, try seeking a bridge loan for the time being.”