All Quotes

A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits.
‐‐ Andrew Weil

A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt restructuring, and there is a certain amount of printing of money. When done in the right mix, it isn't dramatic.
‐‐ Ray Dalio

A beautiful face is a mute recommendation.
‐‐ Publilius Syrus

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.
‐‐ Pope Francis

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
‐‐ Louis Nizer

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
‐‐ Jules Renard

A beautiful person is someone who stays true to themselves and their spirit; someone who is self-confident and can make you smile.
‐‐ Helena Christensen

A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.
‐‐ Beth Ditto

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
‐‐ Irving Penn

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
‐‐ Claude Debussy

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
‐‐ Michelangelo

A beautiful wake-up is one of life's most perfectly happy times.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.
‐‐ Saul Steinberg

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
‐‐ Minna Antrim

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
‐‐ Samuel Richardson

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
‐‐ Baltasar Gracian

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
‐‐ Adlai E. Stevenson

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.
‐‐ Kin Hubbard

A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.
‐‐ Andre Previn

A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.
‐‐ Saint Teresa of Avila

A beginning is the end of something, always.
‐‐ Spider Robinson

A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives.
‐‐ Armstrong Williams

A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.
‐‐ Donny Osmond

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
‐‐ Aldous Huxley

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
‐‐ David Hockney

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.
‐‐ Jiddu Krishnamurti

A belief may be larger than a fact.
‐‐ Vannevar Bush

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
‐‐ Jose Bergamin

A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!
‐‐ Oscar Hammerstein II

A bellyful is a bellyful.
‐‐ Francois Rabelais

A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face.
‐‐ Jimmy Sangster

A bespoke shirt is one of the true luxuries that you can acquire. There's nothing better than a fitted shirt. Once you've picked up your first one, you'll never stop buying them - providing you can pay for it.
‐‐ Jason Statham

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
‐‐ Logan Pearsall Smith

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
‐‐ Cyril Connolly

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
‐‐ Daniel J. Boorstin

A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.
‐‐ Lyn Nofziger

A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
‐‐ Bobby Bowden

A better way to help American companies compete against competitors abroad is to remove all series and myriad of obstacles they face in America, whether it's union rules in some states or massive amounts of regulation imposed upon them, one of the most expensive combined corporate tax rates on the planet.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
‐‐ Douglas MacArthur

A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
‐‐ Iain Glen

A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
‐‐ Iain Glen

A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner.
‐‐ Chris Hardwick

A big diamond necklace is nouveau riche, really. People who have wealth a long time don't wear such things.
‐‐ Elsa Peretti

A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
‐‐ Brian Eno

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
‐‐ Karel Reisz

A big endorsement deal would be awesome.
‐‐ Matt Emmons

A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?
‐‐ Donald Norman

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.
‐‐ Sean Durkin

A big goal of the liberal Democrats in Congress is to try to do away with any effective cooperation to enforce federal immigration laws.
‐‐ Trent Franks

A big iron needle stitching the country together.
‐‐ Jessamyn West