B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to that exchange. So I read aloud with myself as the audience, and gave voice to another's words.”
Source: Open City: A Novel
“But a broken blade can still cut, Diago.”
Source: The Will of the Many
“But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.”
Source: Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?
“But a central message there is, and it is the recognition of this that has led to the common treatment of the Bible as a book, and not simply a collection of books - just as the Greek plural biblia (books) became the Latin singular biblia (the book).”
Source: The Origin of the Bible
“But a child's joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son's laughter began to her heart, a feat she had never believed possible”
Source: The Shoemaker's Wife
“But a choice made is made, it cannot be changed. Things happened as they happened. It is possible to imagine all kinds of different routes across the continent, or a better way for the government to help private industry, or maybe to have the government build and own it. But those things didn’t happen, and what did take place is grand. So we admire those who did it—even if they were far from perfect—for what they were and what they accomplished and how much each of us owes them.”
Source: Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
“But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.”
Source: Patrick Geddes: spokesman for man and the environment: a selection
“But a cock does not enter a hen… it enters a…meow-meow!”
“But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”
Source: The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
“But a dandy can never be a vulgar man”
Source: Selected writings on art and artists [of] Beaudelaire
“But a dark, frightened part of her whispered that the most violent hate is born from the tightest love. And betrayal."
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Source: When Villains Rise
“But a dauntless faith believes”
“But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.”
“But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God.”
“But a favor has to be answered by another favor, and the courtesies became a chain that imprisoned us.”
Source: The Days of Abandonment
“But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now grind and polish ever more exotic surfaces, hyperboloidial and even stranger, eventually including what we must term ‘imaginary’ shapes (which some preferred to term invisible).”
“But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into physical reality, to state it in gesture and form. For the man who understands this, a house he owns is a statement of his life.”
Source: The Fountainhead
“But a generation that knows only how to travel — can they teach a generation how to arrive?”
Source: The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
“But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.”
“But a girl’s love is not a woman’s love; above all, it is not a modern woman’s love. I, at thirty, cannot accept your views, adopt your methods, and believe your heresies, as you might be able to teach me to do if I were eighteen, - and if I loved you. I have found out my own life-truths, and they do not accord with yours.”
Source: Diana Victrix
“But a God that did everything we thought was right and good wouldn't be the creator of the universe. He would be our puppet. He wouldn't be God. There's more to everything than we can know.”
Source: Pachinko
“But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition, to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Everything else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.”
Source: The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke
“But a good wife—a good unworldly woman—may really help a man, and keep him more independent.”
Source: Middlemarch
“But a haiku by Buson came into his mind: 'I try to forget this senile love; a chilly autumn shower.' The gloom only grew denser.”
Source: The Sound of the Mountain
“But a hare, now, that is a different thing altogether. A hare is not a pet but a person. Hares are clever and brave and loving, and they have fairy blood in them. It’s a grand thing to have a hare for a friend.”
“But a hero to many was still a villain to one.”
Source: A Song to Drown Rivers
“But a hobby, like a habit, makes you forget about important things in life.”
“But a hot gym is where most of us have trained before. Learn to deal with it: more water, more minerals, bigger balls.”
“But a human being, she, she, cannot simply exist; she is a hurricane, every thought bending and crossing its coherence inside her, nothing will let her be, not for a moment. Every emotion, every thought, is invaded by another.”
Source: The Pickup
“But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.”
Source: The Art of War
“But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.”
Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go
“But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands.”
“But a law, however venerable be the sanction, cannot suddenly transform the temper of the times . . .”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“But a lie is a house carefully built on rotten stilts. A liar often forgets the beginning of his tale before he gets to the end, and in this way one will catch him. A lie is a tale carefully told if allowed to be told, and I would seek to break his untruth by asking him to tell a different part of the tale.”
Source: Black Leopard, Red Wolf
“But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.”
Source: Lectures on Ethics
“But a life without art, without wonder, without beautiful things—she would go mad.”
“But a little milk, butter and cheese are acceptable because no harm is done in obtaining them.”
“But a living is not a life.”
Source: Assassin's Quest: The Farseer Trilogy
“But a lonely man is an unnatural man, and soon comes to perplexity. From perplexity to fantasy. From fantasy to madness.”
Source: MY COUSIN RACHEL
“But a lot of businesses out there don't see the return on investment, they look at it as a liability, and until they can understand that proactive security actually returns, gives them a return on investment, it's still a hard sell for people.”
“But a lot of my training can be done in Aston - a lot of the hard work, so to speak. But a new atmosphere, a new place, and it's good for me because I didn't want to get stuck in one spot, so coming home is good, back and forth, you know, where my roots are.”
“But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.”
“But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too.”
“But a lot of things probably will never change - like our friendships and our working relationships. As far as me and Patrick [Stump, the singer] and all of Fall Out Boy, it's in a vacuum.”
“But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they became the sort of people biographies get written about.”
Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition
“But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.”
“But a machine that was powerful enough to accelerate particles to the grand unification energy would have to be as big as the Solar System - and would be unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate.”
Source: A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
“But a male voice pleaded from behind, 'Don't.'
Varian appeared from the rocky path, gasping for breath, splattered with blood.
Amren smirked. 'Like a hound on a scent.'
'Don't,' was all Varian said.
'Unleash me,' Amren said, ignoring him. 'Let me end this.'
I began shaking my head. 'You- you will be gone. You said you won't remember us, won't be you anymore if you're freed.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“But a man cannot just be a man anymore, can he? Freedom comes with so many price tags. I can’t just be a writer. I have to be a salesman too pretending just to sell a cup of coffee. Just to pay bills.”
Source: Beyond Passion and Dreams: Two Souls. One Fire. No Survivors.
“But a man doesn’t change his character, dearest.” “I don’t expect him to change his character,” Hannah said. “My hope is that, given time, he’ll reveal it.”
Source: A Lady of Conscience