List of Topics starting with [B]

It had taken her whole life to make a single friend. And here these girls had become best friends in minutes as if making friends ...

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

You can be courageous in admitting your sin precisely because God is richly abundant in his mercy. He comes to you in mercy not because ...

Attractive souls are different than beautiful souls. Attractive souls take care of their outward appearance for appearance sake. Beautiful souls care for themselves inwardly and ...

I'm not asking you to do your best. I'm asking you to do your job. -Dagny Taggart

I try to get to the gym at least a few times a week, hopefully more. I also play hockey in a pickup league. I ...

Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is highly significant, I ...

The market for local advertising is in the billions.

There is always more we can do in ministry, but God is not asking 'Can you do more?'. He is asking 'Do you love me?' ...

I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence ...

Growing up, my mom was a painter, my best friend was a painter, my husband is a painter. For a long time I knew artists, ...

Without internet, there would have been no Jack Ma, and no Alibaba or Taobao.

From a rational standpoint, it might be expected that man should be far more willing to express financial confidence in his skills rather than risking ...

I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in ...

However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long ...

Librarians ... have been my lifelong friends, guides and heroes.

I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

Am I a hypocrite?" I ask. "You're a black girl who fell in love with a white boy." "And a black girl who cares about ...

You can have an Apple in the phone business, or a RIM, and they can do very well, but when 1.3 billion phones a year ...

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was ...

Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.

Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can assign them their ...

In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics?

And he laughs. Not the heavy laughter from before. It's a great laugh. A deep laugh. One that makes my lips lift. Isaiah, the guy ...

When you're watching 'Armageddon,' and the Aerosmith song starts ... Super funny.

The final picture in the album was of Aunt Lovey and Uncle Stash, their black-and-white wedding photo. I hated that their picture came last, because ...

Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a ...

I will have my freedom.

I imagine some people, like some toys, are born defective - which I suppose makes us all broken toys, don't you think?

Why should every pregnant woman be expected to read the same book? Or any book? Being pregnant isn't that complicated. What to Expect When You're ...

Troutie, my bonnie little fellow, am not I the most beautiful woman in all the world?

Strangers had small interest in hurting you. That was always done best by your own family and friends.

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

So one aspect of becoming a Christian is having to leave behind what everyone else thinks and wants, the prevailing standards, in order to enter ...

As a customer's man, his best brokerage work was securing the old age of his clients: time for them to do what they wished.

Life is a beautiful journey, full of joy and painYou never know when it will end, don't let a moment pass in vain ... In ...

We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual ...

Most best-sellers are written for readers who are willing to be passive consumers. The blurbs on their covers often highlight the coercive, aggressive power of ...

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

It was a warm and natural feeling to be there. We were not black or white people. We were just people bound together by love ...

Holy and pure are the drops that fall, When the young bride goes from her father's hall; She goes unto love yet untried and new ...

No observational problem will not be solved by more data.

This program is subject to change often unexpectedly, sometimes in the batting of an eye. It's the best argument I know against suicide.

Those of you who are strong need to be there for those who have lost someone today. We have to be here for each other ...

From the instant the atomic bomb exploded, it became the symbol of all human evil; it was a savagely primitive demon and a most modern ...

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is ...

And even though we don't have the professional relationship anymore, the love and friendship we have for each other will remain. He is like a ...

Don't forget that birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky.

People aren't the same. Business is, in my opinion, all about the team that fields the best players. It's not about an idea. An idea ...

When we find the courage to look inside without allowing the filters of self-protection and self-preservation to blind us, it opens up a vista to ...

But a whole bottle was what made me feel dead inside. And it worked, all the days stress was gone and I was able to ...

I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with ...

Don Quixote is the best book out there on political theory, followed by Hamlet and Macbeth. There is no better way to understand the tragedy ...

She got pissed when I accused her of having Bieber Fever (it pisses me off that I even know what the fuck that means - ...

I have unbelievable trust in my offensive line that they will get the job done. Not only them, but the running backs and as a ...

Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.

Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.

Satan has no power over us except what we allow. Moment by moment, decision by decision, step by step - will we operate in God's ...

Friendship is like an investment; the best type yields the best profit for you! It's not just about making friends; it's about making right friends ...

If that was dying, I don't want to do it again.

The process of doing films is not my favorite, but I love television. Television is a quicker turnaround. You shoot more during the day, which ...

Real people do what they want ... not what they can.

When I was about 14, in about 1984, I decided to become a great poet. Faber & Faber was going to publish me, and when ...

You don't have to go with the crowd.

'Ghost City' began as a idea. I felt that I hadn't read or heard a great deal about the sort of life that I thought ...

I was bit by a dog when I was two years old, and it almost mauled my face. It almost killed and/or blinded me. I ...

'The Real World' is the most predictable arc ever. They get on the show, they're all excited, we're gonna be best friends, then people start ...

Who loves you, Warren Valentine? She did. I want Lilla to know that kind of love. The kind of love that never leaves or abandons.

British people still wear clothes. By clothes I mean actual clothes: jackets and shirts and ties and suits. The spirit of Beau Brummell is still ...

Penguin Classic, with the orange bands at the top and bottom; and the Gill Sans thirty-sixpoint title, all caps, centered and medium weight, in black ...

To be without a dog is worse than being without a song.

I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that ...

I was taught very well. My mom raised me very well, and so did my dad. I've been very blessed to have great parents that ...

Love is madness, you can't put it in doses, it either surges over or under

In short, this or that behavior wasn't good because scripture said so. Scripture mandated this or that behavior because it was good, and if it ...

I don't know what circumstances occurred in your life for you to build such a strong brick wall around your heart, but I do intend ...

Volume in your hair is sexy, and it doesn't necessarily have to be that Brigitte Bardot kind of volume - it's just that nice texture ...

Nina felt an inordinate pleasure, a pleasure that seemed to creep up on her the way the mud oozed through her barefoot toes.

No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest ...

There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side.

She owned the roadas an elephant owns the veldtand like a big blue elephantmoved with massive graceand dignity.

A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the ...

Trust yourself to be able to confront and work through your emotions. If you believe you can't do it, you won't do it and you'll ...

It has ever been thus. The way is hard and narrow, it is true. But it is a path beaten smooth by the countless others ...

Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the ...

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.

There are too many people who imagine that there is something sophisticated about always believing the best of those who hate your country, and the ...

40 THINGS THAT PROVE GOD CARES ABOUT GIRLS, including He made babies so cute! and He invented Australian accents! and There are no diets in ...

Mindfulness requires being a beginner. Setting absurdly high-standards, and being unwilling to be a novice, are the joint enemies of personal progress and change. Nobody ...

Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action.

I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace.

Happy is the man who loves the woods and waters, Brother to the grass and well beloved of Pan; The earth shall be his, and ...

If I'm able to catch the screening, there's a point in the film where, like clockwork, a portion of the audience gets really emotional and ...

My mom has given me my sense of style. She has taught me how individual style is so beautiful, what you appreciate on someone else ...

Serving is the best kind of Leading.

I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is nonconfrontational. We believe there are many forms of Scripture. ...

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

A Hedge Knight is the truest kind of knight, Dunk. Other Knights serve the Lords who keep them, or from whom they hold their lands, ...

He can heal me. I believe He will. I believe I'm going to be an old surely Baptist preacher. And even if He doesn't ... ...