Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brent Weeks

Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.

Brent Weeks

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

Bret Easton Ellis

I think basically most men are misogynistic.

Brand Blanshard

When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.

Branch Rickey

Branch Rickey made me a better man.

Bram Stoker

A brave man's hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music.

Bram Stoker

All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.

Bram Stoker

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

Booker T. Washington

To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say 'Cast down your bucket where you are.'

Booker T. Washington

There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

Booker T. Washington

Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.

Bobby Sands

All things must come to pass as one, so hope should never die. There is no height or bloody might that a freeman can’t defy. There is no source or foreign force can break one man who knows that his free will no thing can kill … and from that, freedom grows.

Bob Dylan

Silvio, I gotta go, find out something only dead men know.

Bob Dylan

The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it didn't seem like any man could stand shoulder to shoulder with him.

Bob Dylan

Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.

Billy Bragg

Money maketh man a tory, don't fire that assumption at me, I like toast as much as anyone but not for breakfast, dinner and tea

Boris Pasternak

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth

Boethius

Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.

Boethius

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

Bobby Fischer

Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.

Bobby Fischer

I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

Bruce Froemming

Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats.

Brigitte Bardot

Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.

Brigham Young

The government of heaven, if wickedly administered, would become one of the worst governments upon the face of the earth. No matter how good a government is, unless it is administered by righteous men, an evil government will be made of it.

Brigham Young

In the name of Israel's God, if every man would do right, and when he has done what he knows is right, then stops till he knows what next, there never would be a jar in the camp. And I defy the man to come forward that ever led so large a people in such difficult and trying circumstances, in so much peace, as I have led this people during this campaign, with the help of God and my brethren.

Brigham Young

It yields solid satisfaction to hear men testify of the truth of the Gospel. It is always peculiarly interesting to me to hear the Saints tell their experience. It is to me one of the best sermons to hear men and women relate to each other how the Lord has wrought upon their understanding, and brought them into the path of truth, life, and salvation.

Brigham Young

There is neither man or woman in this Church who is not on a mission. That mission will last as long as they live, and it is to do good, to promote righteousness, to teach the principles of truth, and to prevail upon themselves and everybody around them to live those principles that they may obtain eternal life

Brennan Manning

The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.

Brennan Manning

When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.

Branford Marsalis

Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.

Blaise Pascal

Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.

Blaise Pascal

(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.

Blaise Pascal

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.