Quotes Be-Bi "All the things we've been fighting for -- equality, visibility -- once we get them, there will be no more queer culture. In a way, that's fine. In a way, I'm reluctant about ... moving toward acceptance." -- Alison Bechdel "We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves." -- May Lamberton Becker "Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore!" -- Henry Ward Beecher "If your output is greater then your input, then your upkeep will be your downfall." -- Brooke Beetler "The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose." -- Hada Bejar "[A]reas of the country where divorce rates are highest are also frequently the areas where many conservative Christians live. Kentucky, Mississippi and Arkansas, for example, voted overwhelmingly for constitutional amendments to ban gay marriage. But they had three of the highest divorce rates in 2003 . . . The lowest divorce rates are largely in the blue states: the Northeast and the upper Midwest. And the state with the lowest divorce rate was Massachusetts, home to John Kerry, the Kennedys and same-sex marriage." -- Pam Belluck "It's easy to tell between right and wrong. What's hard is choosing the wrong that's more right." -- Annette Bening in The Siege "I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either." - Jack Benny "Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought." -- Henri Bergson "I don't want anybody to dictate where I have to go; I want to willingly be able to follow when it's appropriate." -- Halle Berry "There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely." -- Ugo Betti "Can I be blunt? Maybe it's time for all of us children of God to become adults of God and finally grow up and take some responsibility. And if we're going to evolve and overgrow the current dysfunction at the junction, we will have to transcend the old nation vs. nation and build the one nation we have in common -- imagination. Yes, in a world of scarcity, the one thing we have in abundance is imagination." -- Swami Beyondananda "For every prohibition you create you also create an underground." -- Jello Biafra "Blessed are those who can give without remembering. and take without forgetting." -- Elizabeth Bibesco "Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblence to ourselves." -- Ambrose Bierce "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness." -- Josh Billings "We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it. ...That does not fit my definition of a good tenant. If we were here on a month-to-month basis, we would have been evicted long ago." -- Rose Elizabeth Bird Index