B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Brushing a girl’s hair
behind her ear
once a day
will solve more problems
than all those
therapists
and drugs.”
Source: Love Her Wild
“Brushing my Grilzz Before I Booty Pop. A Woman's work is never Done!”
“Brushing my little teeth every morning of my childhood, I stood on my tippy toes, leaned over the sink and said to myself that when I am a big girl I will see from this high.
Today I did the same thing, but the view from my toes was the same from flat feet.
I'm a big girl now.”
“Brushing my teeth and rinsing my mouth, I vow to use truthful and loving speech. When my mouth is fragrant with right speech, a flower blooms in the garden of my heart.”
Source: Present Moment Wonderful Moment (Revised Edition): Verses for Daily Living-Updated Third Edition
“Brushing past me on his way out he smelled like musk. Like something Louise called an animalic, the scent from the gland of a male deer.
He turned around in the middle of the hallway.
"My name's Gabriel, I thought you should know since I've been inside of your grandmother's house."
Like the archangel, I thought, the impact of Loretta's Catholicism making a rare appearance in my mind. I made a mental note to look up the angel Gabriel and see what deeds he had done to deserve his angel status.
When Gabriel was gone his glandular scent, earthy and sweet, lingered in the room. I remembered Louise telling me that a good scent should not smell like a perfume, but like nature itself, including all aspects of the natural world, dark and animal as well as light and floral. "Love includes the bad as well as the good," she'd said, "the evil as well as the kind, and so should the scent that induces it.”
Source: Scent of Darkness
“Brushing the clouds away from my eyes, I see clarity in the raindrop and beauty in the first ray of morning sun...
Life is strange and wondrous...”
“Brusque erratic Vernal Equinox.
Newly meaningful and reflective Passover.
Upcoming still, Easter and the Rites of Eostre.b
All stories of renewal, revelation,
redemption,
resurrection,
rebirth.
We may feel them all beyond our grasp
right now
as much denied our fingers' reach
as feels the sun and those delicious
spring breezes,
but the natural world holds its own trajectory
and we must learn from its cycles
and its fortitude.
Return to us, warmth and light,
long days,
migrating birds.
Reveal yourselves, new buds,
first leaves,
animals rubbing your eyes
from the long winter's sleep
inside your burrows,
evolving insects
emerging from your cocoons.
Return, reveal,
renew, open,
feel the bittersweet crisp winds
ready to carry you through whatever is to come.
Whatever is to come,
take wing and fly ...”
“Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.”
Source: Bébée, or Two Little Wooden Shoes
“Brussels sprouts are misunderstood - probably because most people don't know how to cook them properly.”
“Brutaali totuus elämässä on se, että kukaan ei sua auta huvikseen. Elämässä ei saa mitään ilmaiseksi. Jos ei välitä toisista ihmisistä niin on turha luulla että kukaan sustakaan välittää.”
Source: Tuomiopäivä
“Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world”
Source: Mary Chesnut's Diary
“Brutalidad de profesaurios, pecadillos de puñeteros pedagogos, como cuando insisten en comparar trabajo y calidad, como si un soneto de Lorca, cuento de Marcial Suárez, aforismo de Bernardo Soares o relato de media página de Kafka no valiese infinitamente más que cualquier novela suya de cuatrocientas páginas.”
Source: Dry Cicuta
“Brutalist architecture was Modernism's angry underside, and was never, much as some would rather it were, a mere aesthetic style. It was a political aesthetic, an attitude, a weapon, dedicated to the precept that nothing was too good for ordinary people. Now, after decades of neglect, it's devided between 'eyesores' and 'icons'; fine for the Barbican's stockbrokers but unacceptable for the ordinary people who were always its intended clients.”
Source: A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
“Brutality creates respect.”
“Brutality is never temporary. It does not respect the boundaries set for it, and so it is natural that brutality will spread, first corrupting art, then life. Then, out of the misfortunes and bloodshed of humankind, we see born insignificant literature, frivolous newspapers, photographed portraits, and youth-club plays in which hatred replaces religion. Art then ends up in forced optimism, which is precisely the worst of indulgences, and the most pathetic of lies.”
Source: Create Dangerously
“Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.”
“Brutality sets you free from fear but puts you a against the law and everyone else.”
“Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.”
“Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world”
“Brute animals are the most healthy, and they are exposed to all weather, and of men, those are healthiest who are the most exposed.”
“Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.”
Source: Specimens of the table talk
“Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning it was not a Word, but a chirrup.”
Source: Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays
“Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents.”
“Brute force will sometimes get you through a challenge, but usually not without hurting and depleting yourself in the process.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.”
Source: In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy
“Brutes abstract not. -- If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas, that way, to any degree; this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.”
Source: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (Complete)
“Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our hopes, but theyare without our fears; they are subject like us to death, but without knowing it; even most of them are more attentive than we to self-preservation, and do not make so bad a use of their passions.”
“Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.”
“Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a five barred gate. A dog by instinct turns aside Who sees the ditch too deep and wide, But man we find the only creature Who, led by folly, combats nature; Who, when she loudly cries-Forbear! With obstinacy fixes there; And where the genius least inclines, Absurdly bends his whole designs.”
“Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.”
Source: Poems, Polite convesation, etc
“Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only. The intellectof man, on the contrary, energises as well as his eye or ear, and perceives in sights or sounds something beyond them. It seizes and unites what the senses present to it; it grasps and forms what need not be seen or heard except in detail. It discerns in lines and colors, or in tones, what is beautiful and what is not. It gives them a meaning, and invests them with an idea.”
“Brutes leave ingratitude to man.”
“Brutet ben läker tillbaka starkare,
Brutet hjärta läker tillbaka modigare.
Brutet sinne läker tillbaka klokare,
Trasigt liv läker tillbaka ljusare.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Brutus, I do observe you now of late: I have not from your eyes that gentleness And show of love as I was wont to have: You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand Over your friend that loves you. Poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other men.”
“Bryan - a great friend of mine, by the way - had a Neanderthal type of head, Burbank says. As to Riley, he has not even the oratorical skill of Bryan. The whole movement is based on the poor whites of the south.”
“Bryan [Cranston] created something completely unique, that was earned by its authenticity. That's what gave us the license to push it a bit.”
“Bryan [Iguchi] had this beautiful philosophy about our connection with these incredible cycles. There's a line from one of his poems that always stays with me about 'This process we follow; this cycle we ride' and it's almost become a strap line for the film.”
“Bryan Cranston has got such an incredible light touch. He comes in egoless, but with bold opinions, and he wants to play. He wants to play. And that's what I've seen in great actors all my life and what I've always tried to nurture and keep in myself is that joy of playing.”
“Bryan Cranston is generous, he's funny. When we did a wedding scene [in The Infiltrator ], at the end of the movie with a big set piece, he put the veil off the bride, he put it on, he pretended like we were getting married, he's just a goof.”
“Bryan Fogarty could skate faster, shoot harder and pass crisper drunk than the rest of us could sober.”
“Bryan Habana likes to talk himself up before games and then nothing happens.”
“Bryan helped me up. "How can you be so good one minute then clumsy the next?"
I shrugged. "I've never been very athletic. Not unless you count fencing."
"You made fences?”
Source: Sweet Blood of Mine
“Bryan Lee O'Malley has been alive since he was born and will lives until he dies.”
“Bryan pressed her closer against him and placed her arms to circle his neck from behind. He moved a little faster and Zahara fell into step, laying her head against his shoulder and closing her eyes to drown out the crowd. She focused on the hard muscles of Bryan’s chest, his heated breath against her hair, and his fingers gripping her waist. She absently wondered if it was wrong that an angel was dancing inside of a club full of youth, and if this was as weird and exhilarating for him as it was for her. Bryan spun her around to face him and kissed her. He wasn’t as gentle as he usually was, digging his hand into her hair and nibbling on her bottom lip. Zahara whimpered and moved her fingers underneath his shirt, digging her fingers into his back. ~Zahara and Bryan”
Source: Lucifer
“Bryan pulled back and laid his forehead against Zahara’s, his breath ragged and intense enough to set her on fire. “You’e making this difficult.”
“Making what difficult?” Zahara huffed.
“Leaving you.” Bryan closed his eyes and kissed her again.”
Source: Lucifer
“Bryan Robson, well, he does what he does and his future is in the future”
“Bryant Gumbel is thrilled about his CBS deal and can't wait to start alienating the staff of an entirely new network.”
“Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.”
“Bryar Kosala just likes helping people, and is good at running things, and when invited to become the world’s Mom she said, “Sure.”
Source: Too Like the Lightning
“Bryce barely heard the woman as she nodded. Barely heard anything beyond Hunt's lingering words. I've got you.
Her fingers curled around his. She let her eyes tell him everything her ravaged throat couldn't. I've got you, too.”
Source: House of Earth and Blood