B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Building up arms is not a substitute for diplomacy.”
“Building up the arms did not cause the fall of Eastern Europe.”
“Building up your self-esteem means coming to the realization that other people’s opinions of you are none of your business.”
Source: The Mood Book: Crystals, Oils, and Rituals to Elevate Your Spirit
“Building walls does not make any country great again.”
“Building walls isn't going to work in the long run. Some people are happy with the wall in Israel, but somebody will get a weapon someday and knock it over or something. Walls aren't the answer between countries, though”
“Building wealth in all aspects of our lives—including mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual—is paramount. That's what holistic growth is".”
“Building weapons that we don't need, don't work, and aren't necessary, and have no mission that's not bad politics, that's robbery.”
“Building with Its Face Blown Off
How suddenly the private
is revealed in a bombed-out city,
how the blue and white striped wallpaper
of a second story bedroom is now
exposed to the lightly falling snow
as if the room had answered the explosion
wearing only its striped pajamas.
Some neighbors and soldiers
poke around in the rubble below
and stare up at the hanging staircase,
the portrait of a grandfather,
a door dangling from a single hinge.
And the bathroom looks almost embarrassed
by its uncovered ochre walls,
the twisted mess of its plumbing,
the sink sinking to its knees,
the ripped shower curtain,
the torn goldfish trailing bubbles.
It's like a dollhouse view
as if a child on its knees could reach in
and pick up the bureau, straighten a picture.
Or it might be a room on a stage
in a play with no characters,
no dialogue or audience,
no beginning, middle, and end–
just the broken furniture in the street,
a shoe among the cinder blocks,
a light snow still falling
on a distant steeple, and people
crossing a bridge that still stands.
And beyong that–crows in a tree,
the statue of a leader on a horse,
and clouds that look like smoke,
and even farther on, in another country
on a blanket under a shade tree,
a man pouring wine into two glasses
and a woman sliding out
the wooden pegs of a wicker hamper
filled with bread, cheese, and several kinds of olives.”
Source: The Trouble With Poetry - And Other Poems
“Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.”
“Building your "dream life" is filled with things that can feel like the opposite of a dream:
Mistakes
Delays
Starting over
Failure
The building part is actually more of a rebuilding that is a continual process. The building is not linear in nature but far more interesting. You might start a creative dream, take the "next step", and find yourself completely bored, dissatisfied, or just not inspired.”
“Building your dreams is the only way not to work for someone else's dreams.”
“Building your own business is the best way to become rich. Then you can begin investing in other assets.”
“Building Your Own Family Is Like A Contractor Without A Labour.”
“Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it's achievable; anyone can do it.”
“Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.”
“Building your personal brand is one of the few ways you can ensure that you don't stay broke.”
“Buildings are always better than drawings and models.”
“Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces.”
“Buildings are forms of performances.”
“Buildings are seldom just buildings in downtown Chicago, they are Examples, and not a city on Earth, I swear, is as knowledgeably preoccupied with architectural meaning. Where else would a department store include in its advertisements the name of the architect who created it, or a newspaper property section throw in a scholarly exposition of theoretical design?”
Source: Locations
“Buildings are tools to reach people, raise disciples, reach students, train up our kids, heal marriages and families and worship God.”
“Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.”
“Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.”
“Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.”
“Buildings dream at night, and their dreams have a particular character. Or perhaps at night they awaken. There is nothing cordial or accommodating about buildings, whatever they might let people believe. The stresses of simply standing there, preposterous constructions, Euclidian like nothing in nature, the ground heaving under them, rain seeping in while their joints go slack with rot. They speak disgruntlement, creaks and groans, and less nameable sounds that suggest presence of the kind that is conjured only by emptiness. Grudges, plaints, and threats, an interior conversation, not meant to be heard, that would startle anyone. Jack had never realized before that the city, the parts he knew of it, might despise its human infestation.”
Source: Jack
“Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts - constructed artifacts - but for me they are these incredible sites of negotiation.”
“Buildings have been made because of man.”
“Buildings should be good neighbours.”
“Buildings should not look like Lady Gaga.”
“Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.”
“Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.”
Source: In the cause of architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright: essays
“Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.”
Source: The Poems of William Cowper ...
“Built into bad news is that sense of profound disbelief. The mind struggles to absorb the bare facts, defending itself against the larger implications.”
Source: V is for Vengeance
“Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.”
Source: Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief
“Built into the box were compartments and sleeves and holders, all full of brushes and paints and charcoal and sheets of paper. A travelling painting kit.
Red- the red paint inside the glass vial was so bright, the blue as stunning as the eyes of that faerie woman I'd slaughtered-
'I thought you might want it to take around the grounds with you, rather than lug all those bags like you always do.'
The brushes were fresh, gleaming- the bristles soft and clean.
Looking at the box, at what was inside, felt like examining a crow-picked corpse.
I tried to smile. Tried to will some brightness to my eyes.
He said. 'You don't like it.'
'No,' I managed to say. 'No- it's wonderful.' And it was. It really was.
I thought if you started painting again...' I waited for him to finish.
He didn't.
My face heated.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Built into you is an internal guidance system that shows you the way home. All you need to do is heed the voice.”
“Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches.”
Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin
“Built like an ogre, with a thick ginger beard, wiry orange hairs sprouting from his tree trunk arms and a head resembling a shining snooker ball, he takes one look at Gwen and sneers. “Put that feckin’ gun down, cowgirl.”
Source: Sleight of Hand
“Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddha’s path of awakening: clarity of vision and the development of wisdom.”
Source: Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation
“Built on the insubstantial foundation of our feelings, the life we had created together seemed a figment of our imaginations that dissolved into fairy dust in the face of something real, and deadly, like cancer.”
Source: Orphan Number Eight
“Built up by the middle classes to hold their own against royalty, sanctioning, and, at the same time strengthening, their sway over the workers, parliamentary rule is pre-eminently a middle-class rule. The upholders of this system have never seriously maintained that a parliament or a municipal council represent a nation or a city. The most intelligent among them know that this is impossible. The middle classes have simply used the parliamentary system to raise a protecting barrier against the pretensions of royalty, without giving the people liberty. But gradually, as the people become conscious of their real interests, and the variety of their interests is growing, the system can no longer work. Therefore democrats of all countries vainly imagine various palliatives. The Referendum is tried and found to be a failure; proportional representation is spoken of, the representation of minorities, and other parliamentary Utopias. In a word, they strive to find what is not to be found, and after each new experiment they are bound to recognize that it was a failure; so that confidence in Representative Government vanishes more and more.”
Source: The Conquest of Bread
“Built vein by vein never in vain”
“Buiten is het maandag. Dat zegt de stem van de Canadese radio-omroeper vanuit de schemerige woonkamer. Sleet, later overgaand in echte regen. Heel Nova Scotia opnieuw onder een witte deken.
'Weest u vooral voorzichtig op de weg.”
Source: Buiten is het maandag
“Buka hatimu, kekasih. Sambut kicauan burung dalam hatiku yang ingin bersarang di dalam hatimu. Burung-burung kita akan bercumbu, dan beranak kupu-kupu.”
Source: Februarindu
“bukan aku tak mencitaimu
tapi inilah caraku menjaga hati dan kita
dari pada mendekapkan api jahanam ke atas dadaku,lebih baik aku dibakar bara api rindu dalam kesabaran menunggumu, meski dalam waktu sejauh perjalan usiaku”
“bukan aku tak mencitaimu
tapi inilah caraku menjaga hati dan kita
dari pada mendekapkan api jahanam keatas dadaku,lebih baik aku dibakar bara api rindu dalam kesabaran menunggumu, meski dalam waktu sejauh perjalan usiaku”
“Bukan anak cafe, hanya seorang anak Warkop, makannya di warteg dengan minum teh tawar hangat, beroda dua, bukan empat. Pulang kemaleman, berangkat pagi buta, tapi kan kuajarkan bagaimana cara bersyukur.”
“Bukan berarti suatu hal tidak terjadi hanya karena kamu menolaknya.”
Source: Kahve: Shamrock & Raven
“Bukan berhenti, cuma sadar diri.”
“Bukan doa orang lain yang membuat anda sukses atau gagal,
tapi karena anda telah mengaminkannya, sadar atau tak sadar.”
Source: Master of Stupidity