B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.”
“But can't you even imagine what it must feel like to have a true home? I don't mean heaven. I mean a real earthly home. Not some fortress you bought and built up and have to keep everybody locked in or out. A real home. Not some place you went to and invaded and slaughtered people to get. Not some place you claimed, snatched because you got the guns. Not some place you stole from the people living there, but your own home, where if you go back past your great-great-grandparents, past theirs, and theirs, past the whole of Western history, past the beginning of organized knowledge, past pyramids and poison bows, on back to when rain was new, before plants forgot they could sing and birds thought they were fish, back when God said Good! Good!-- there, right there where you know your own people were born and lived and died. Imagine that, Pat. That place. Who was God talking to if not to my people living in my home?"
"You preaching, Reverend."
"No, I'm talking to you, Pat. I'm talking to you.”
Source: Paradise
“But can they [great works] get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.”
“But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will collapse? There is no evidence for it. The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.”
“But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?”
Source: Broken Republic
“but can you call them a bystander
if they’re streaming it all on their phones,
ready to post on instagram,
snapchat
or facebook
&they’re the same people who are appalled by the fact that executions were considered entertaining in tudor times”
Source: The Breast Mountains Of All Time Are In Hargeisa
“But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?…we have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.”
“But can you trust something that can end as suddenly as it begins?”
Source: The Sun Is Also a Star
“But Canada remains a crucial partner in this global war on terrorism, and we are grateful for that. Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and military personnel continue anti-terrorist operations in the Persian Gulf.”
“But cancer can also be fun with its luncheons, theatre parties, and fund raising luaus. ...What will they all do if a cure comes out of it? Considering how easily the March of Dimes conglomerate shifted gears after the polio vaccine, it should pose no problem.”
Source: The solid gold stethoscope
“But cannot we live as though we always loved? It was this that the saints and heroes did; this and nothing more.”
Source: The Treasure of the Humble
“But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.”
Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production
“But Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet that angel must hang!”
Source: Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales
“But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of Americans to those in the same tissues of Mexicans report that it is now we in the North who are the true people of corn.... Compared to us, Mexicans today consume a far more varied carbon diet: the animals they eat still eat grass (until recently, Mexicans regarded feeding corn to livestock as a sacrilege); much of their protein comes from legumes; and they still sweeten their beverages with cane sugar. So that's us: processed corn, walking.”
“But careful,
if the darkness keeps
living in you
even in what appears
to be the light,
keep moving forward.
You're still not out of the tunnel”
Source: Spiraleggiante: Raccolta di poesie
“But Caroline knew that no matter what vows she uttered that day, she belonged to herself.”
Source: How to Tame a Willful Wife
“But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way: 1) Babies are illogical. 2) Nobody is despised who can manage a crocodile. 3) Illogical persons are despised. Therefore, babies cannot manage crocodiles. And: 1) No interesting poems are unpopular among people of real taste. 2) No modern poetry is free from affectation. 3) All of your poems are on the subject of soap bubbles. 4) No affected poetry is popular among people of taste. 5) Only a modern poem would be on the subject of soap bubbles. Therefore, all your poems are uninteresting.”
“But Cassandra was even more breathtaking than he remembered. Her golden sunstruck beauty illuminated the sterile environment of the clinic. She was wonderfully dressed in a green velvet walking dress and a matching hooded cloak trimmed with white fur. Her hair, so shiny it looked molten, had been pinned up in a complex mass of coils and topped with a flirtatious little excuse for a hat. He felt her presence like a shock, every nerve tingling.”
Source: Chasing Cassandra
“But Cassian said, 'You taught yourself to hunt. What about to fight?' I shook my head. Cassian braced his arms on the table. 'Lucky for you, you've just found yourself a teacher.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“But Cassius is already dead and he is smiling.
The rest of the world vanishes. I see a black door. A hand pushing it. A chair waits for me between shafts of light. On that chair I see a boy whose feet don’t touch the ground. In his hands he holds a candle and with a single breath, he blows it out, and with it go all the shafts of light.”
Source: Light Bringer
“But Castor, why have you stopped thinking, why aren't you working? I thought you wanted to write? You don't want to become a housewife, do you?”
“But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.”
Source: Northanger abbey
“But Catholics are always trying to find out if you’re a Catholic even if they don’t know your last name.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.”
“But Cecilia, having learned modern forms of snobbery at Cambridge, considered a man with a degree in chemistry incomplete as a human being.”
Source: Atonement
“But Celaena had stood in front of the that wooden door to the bedroom, listening to Yrene wash her clothes in the nearby kitchen. She found herself unable to turn away, unable to stop thinking about the would-be healer with the brown-gold hair and caramel eyes, of what Yrene had lost and how helpless she'd become. There were so many of them now—the children who had lost everything to Adarlan. Children who had now grown into assassins and barmaids, without a true place to call home, their native kingdoms left to ruin and ash.
Magic had been gone all these years. And the gods were dead, or simply didn't care anymore. Yet there, deep in her gut, was a small but insistent tug. A tug on a strand of some invisible web. So Celaena decided to tug back, just to see how far and wide the reverberations would go.”
Source: The Assassin's Blade
“But celebrity really doesn't mean anything unless you use it for finding some way to give back and I've always felt that way.”
“But centaurs never existed; there could never be So to speak a double nature in a single body Or a double body composed of incongruous parts With a consequent disparity in the faculties. The stupidest person ought to be convinced of that.”
Source: De rerum natura
“But certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we find it easier to refer to their fictitious testimony than to that of a reality which we have almost entirely forgotten.”
Source: In the shadow of young girls in flower
“But certain people just think it's their job to freak out. As long as they're freaking out, they feel busy, like they must be doing work. Getting upset is force, but no motion. Unless we are moving the children forward, we aren't doing work.”
“But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.”
Source: My Name Is Memory
“But certain winds will make men's temper bad.”
Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy
“But certainly I didn't know he was doing anything that was criminal.”
“But certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would then force X number of women in America to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations.”
“But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don't really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders - some of them - up to now have been very unwilling to accept, for instance, the promotion of condom use”
“But certainly not everyday you can find someone who wants to have a monogamous relationship”
“But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen.”
“But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.”
Source: The Little Prince:
“But certainty born from emotion is not always the result of clear thinking.”
“But Champagne is not drinking.”
“But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.”
Source: Skybreaker
“But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die”
Source: The Tawny Man Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Fool's Errand, Golden Fool, Fool's Fate
“But changing yourself means giving up on yourself until now, denying yourself until now and never again showing the face of yourself until now, as if you were sending it to its grave, in effect. [...]
That is why people do not try to change and why they want to feel okay with things as they are, no matter how tough life gets. And they end up living in search of 'okay as I am' ingredients in order to affirm their current situation.”
Source: The Courage to Be Happy: Discover the Power of Positive Psychology and Choose Happiness Every Day
“But charity is a very complicated thing. Its important to find an area where you can really help and you can feel the results. Charity is not like feeding pigeons in the square. It is a process that requires professional management.”
“But charity is the PURE LOVE OF CHRIST, and it endureth forever; and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him.
Moroni 7”
Source: The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
“But Charlie could imagine, because he was a Beta Male, and imagination was his curse....”
Source: A Dirty Job
“But Charlie is more than a trip. She’s a sparkler, firecracker, a fistful of gun powder. Marco is my calm, Mom is my home, Nana is my conscience, but Charlie is my wide-open sky, my free-dancing, stargazing wild rumpus.”
“But charm is not only being soft-spoken, relaxed, and at ease; it's wanting to be a giver. Wanting to be a good listener. Responding, communicating, having a genuine interest in people. It's having a good memory for amusing things so that you're a happy person to be with. Charm is grace — graciousness. And it all has to be real — good manners and good manners of the heart. Charm is a touch of magic. Try to make it a part of your way of life.”
Source: My Way of Life
“But cheating has always been the purview of fairies, and as we are about to enter their domain, we ought to act in accordance with local customs.”
Source: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
“But cheer up - we could be selling tobacco. It's not like software kills people if used as intended”