B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But cheer up. Who could have imagined
What the world is really like
When we were children?
We’re old now, but in spite of all we learned,
So much of it dreadful and scary, even
Petrifying,
We gave Life
Our best shot.
Perfection will have
To wait for the next incarnation.
And I mean of the world, not just us.”
Source: Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
“But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.”
Source: The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus
“But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.”
Source: My Story
“But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.”
“But children can tell when love has been lost, they know when silence means peace and when it's a sign of despair.”
Source: The Red Garden
“But children can't be a center of life and a reason for being. They can be a thousand things that are delightful, interesting, satisfying, but they can't be a well-spring to live from. Or they shouldn't be.”
“But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.”
“But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father.”
Source: The bad parents' garden of verse
“But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and the profoundest desire to learn.”
Source: The Grand Titration: Science and Society in East and West
“But Chiti didn't understand what it was like to have sisters. Against their parents, against the world at large, they were fiercely allied. But among themselves, everything was a competition. There was never enough attention, never enough money, never enough love to go around. So they fought for every scrap.”
Source: Blue Sisters
“But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possible. The crash is imminent; it's how you spend your time on the way down that counts.”
Source: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
“But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling our present conception of the Church-with its sacraments, its hierarchy, and especially its claim to infallibility-is to be found in Christ's words or in the conception of the men of his time.”
Source: The kingdom of God: and peace essays
“But Christ's lore and his apostles twelve,
He taught and first he followed it himself.”
Source: Canterbury Tales (selected)
“But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery.”
Source: Secret Conversations, 1941-1944
“But Christina and I are not people who cry together; we're people who fight together. SO I hold my tears in.”
“But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boëthus say, that all things are produced by fate. And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated.”
“But churches always have been the leading cause of the need for churches.”
Source: The Brothers K
“But circumstances change. Small causes lead to large effects. New paths are added.
And all anyone can do . . . is choose.”
Source: If I Fall
“But civlyzation doos git forrid
Sometimes upon a powder-cart.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“But Claire had long ago realized, even after those constant dreams of her mother leaving faded away, that when you are abandoned as a child, you are never able to forget that people are capable of leaving, even if they never do.”
Source: First Frost
“But Clarabelle wanted more to it. Love. And she still wasn't willing to give up her dream of having a man who was so in love with her that he'd do anything to be with her.”
Source: Willing to Wed the Rancher
“But Clary never found out what it wasn't, because there was a cry of "Jace!" and Alec appeared, breathless from pushing his way through the crowd to get them. His dark hair was a mess and there was blood on his clothes, but his eyes were bright with a mixture of relief and anger. He grabbed Jace by the front of his jacket. "What happened to you?" Jace looked affronted. "What happened to me?" Alec looked at him, not lightly. "You said you were going for a walk! What kind of walk takes six hours?" "A long one?" Jace suggested.”
“But Clary's a hero at heart- and that means she'll find a way to be the hero she needs to be, to look beyond the skills she doesn't have and draw on the skills she does have to ultimately save the day.”
Source: Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader
“But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today, and may be gone tomorrow.”
“But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.”
Source: The Works of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes : Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected, with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical
“But clearly an economy that's growing and expanding like this one - and it certainly is doing that with high GDP output, employment numbers strong, capacity utilization strong - that's an environment in which the Fed needs to continually be alert to early signs of inflation.”
“But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.”
“But clearly life took people and shook them around until finally they were unrecognizable even to those who had once known them well. Still, there was power in once having known someone.”
Source: The Interestings: A Novel
“But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough.”
“But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.”
Source: Archangel
“But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.”
“But closure is temporary. It’s not over till it’s over.”
Source: The Choice: Embrace the Possible
“But clouds bellied out in the sultry heat, the sky cracked open with a crimson gash, spewed flame-and the ancient forest began to smoke. By morning there was a mass of booming, fiery tongues, a hissing, crashing, howling all around, half the sky black with smoke, and the bloodied sun just barely visible.
And what can little men do with their spades, ditches, and pails? The forest is no more, it was devoured by fire: stumps and ash. Perhaps illimitable fields will be plowed here one day, perhaps some new, unheard-of wheat will ripen here and men from Arkansas with shaven faces will weigh in their palms the heavy golden grain. Or perhaps a city will grow up-alive with ringing sound and motion, all stone and crystal and iron-and winged men will come here flying over seas and mountains from all ends of the world. But never again the forest, never again the blue winter silence and the golden silence of summer. And only the tellers of tales will speak in many-colored patterned words about what had been, about wolves and bears and stately green-coated century-old grandfathers, about old Russia; they will speak about all this to us who have seen it with our own eyes ten years - a hundred years! - ago, and to those others, the winged ones, who will come in a hundred years to listen and to marvel at it all as at a fairy tale. ("In Old Russia")”
Source: The Dragon: Fifteen Stories
“But [Coca-Cola] was also genuinely welcomed by the servicemen in far-flung military bases: Coca-Cola reminded them of home and helped to maintain morale.”
Source: A History of the World in 6 Glasses
“But cocks aren’t supposed to lay eggs...” Sahil said, trying to untangle himself. “...they’re supposed to fertilise them.”
“But cockteasing is also a metaphor: she is someone who will manipulate your inner self while holding hers back from you.”
Source: The Sense of an Ending
“But codependency is inappropriate, over-the-top loyalty, caring and supportiveness.”
“But Colin's only understanding of love was of limitless loyalty, boundless tolerance.”
“But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.”
Source: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
“But, Colonel, Sir, you’re sitting right here on the sofa, in what you describe as my hacker’s condo, and you certainly appear to be very much alive. I’ll ask again, is this some kind of joke?”
Source: Deception: A Jack Ludefance Novel
“But colonialism in its harshest forms is not only the exploitation of new nations by old, of dark skins by light, or the subjugation of the poor by the rich. My Nation was once a colony,
and we know what colonialism means; the exploitation and subjugation of the weak by the powerful, of the many by the few, of the governed who have given no consent to be governed, whatever
their continent, their class, their color.”
“But come back in November or December, in February or March, when the fog, la nebbia, settles upon the city like a marvelous monster, and you will have little trouble believing that things can appear and disappear in this labyrinthine city, or that time here could easily slip in its sprockets and take you, willingly or unwillingly, back.”
“But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.”
“But come on, like she hadn't seen every aisle in his grocery store already?”
Source: Leaping Hearts
“But come, hear my words, for truly learning causes the mind to grow. For as I said before in declaring the ends of my words: Twofold is the truth I shall speak; for at one time there grew to be the one alone out of many, and at another time it separated so that there were many out of the one; fire and water and earth and boundless height of air, and baneful Strife apart from these, balancing each of them, and Love among them, their equal in length and breadth.”
“But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.”
“But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.”
“But comedy is like music, it appeals to some people. Some people like Creed, those people are usually pretty stupid. But they probably also like Carrot Top. I would say that they're part of the same ilk.”
“But coming home that day, walking downhill with a panorama of valley and hills before me, I turned my gaze inward, and what I saw, stopped me in my tracks. Instead of the usual unlocalized centre of myself, there was nothing there, it was empty, and at the moment of seeing this there was a flood of quiet joy and I knew, finally I knew what was missing-it was my "self".”
Source: The Experience of No-Self: A Contemplative Journey
“But coming out of that sleep was excruciating. My entire life flashed before my eyes in the worst way possible, my mind refilling itself with all my lame memories, every little thing that had brought me to where I was. I'd try to remember something else—a better version, a happy story, maybe, or just an equally lame but different life that would at least be refreshing in its digressions—but it never worked. I was always still me. Sometimes I woke up with my face wet with tears. The only times I cried, in fact, were when I was pulled out of that nothingness, when the alarm on my cell phone went off.”
Source: My Year of Rest and Relaxation