B Quotes
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“But coming to terms with one’s sorrow is one thing; sharing it with strangers is quite another.”
Source: A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent
“But common sense has no place in first love and never has.”
“But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.”
Source: Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays
“But compare the hardest day's work you ever did with the idleness that splits flowers and pokes its way into spiders' stomachs, and thank your stars that your head has got something it must think of, and your hands something that they must do.”
Source: The Moonstone
“But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I didn't have to pay, and all those extras; we didn't have to pay them.”
“But compared with the task of selecting a piece of French pastry held by an impatient waiter a move in chess is like reaching for a salary check in its demand on the contemplative faculties.”
Source: Chips Off the Old Benchley
“But compassion is a deeper thing that waits beyond the tension of choosing sides. Compassion, in practice, does not require us to give up the truth of what we feel or the truth of our reality. Nor does it allow us to minimize the humanity of those who hurt us. Rather, we are asked to know ourselves enough that we can stay open to the truth of others, even when their truth or their inability to live up to their truth has hurt us.”
“But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.”
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There
“But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That behavior required learning. In a sense, among higher animals adaptive fitness was no longer transmitted to the next generation by DNA at all. It was now carried by teaching.”
Source: The Lost World
“But complex people are never certain that they are not crooks, never certain their passports are quite in order, and are, therefore, unnerved by the slightest thing.”
Source: Collected Impressions
“But concern not thou thyself vainly with matters that are of no advantage.”
Source: Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes
“But concerning vision alone is a separate science formed among philosophers, namely, optics, and not concerning any other sense ... It is possible that some other science may be more useful, but no other science has so much sweetness and beauty of utility. Therefore it is the flower of the whole of philosophy and through it, and not without it, can the other sciences be known.”
“But confidence bred confidence, that’s what her dad had always told her back in the days when she’d been a skinny, flat-chested nerd girl with a boy-intimidating vocabulary and no hope of being asked to the prom.”
Source: Every Part of You: Resists Me
“But confining myself more to the particular, I say that a prince may be seen happy to-day and ruined to-morrow without having shown any change of disposition or character. This, I believe, arises firstly from causes that have already been discussed at length, namely, that the prince who relies entirely upon fortune is lost when it changes. I believe also that he will be successful who directs his actions according to the spirit of the times, and that he whose actions do not accord with the times will not be successful. Because men are seen, in affairs that lead to the end which every man has before him, namely, glory and riches, to get there by various methods; one with caution, another with haste; one by force, another by skill; one by patience, another by its opposite; and each one succeeds in reaching the goal by a different method. One can also see of two cautious men the one attain his end, the other fail; and similarly, two men by different observances are equally successful, the one being cautious, the other impetuous; all this arises from nothing else than whether or not they conform in their methods to the spirit of the times. This follows from what I have said, that two men working differently bring about the same effect, and of two working similarly, one attains his object and the other does not.”
Source: The Prince
“But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.”
“But considering that I walked in expecting no complexity at all, let alone the visual wonderments, "Snow White and the Huntsman" is a considerable experience.”
“But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
“But contrary to what others may think, Prince Charming learned that sometimes what may seem like a catastrophe of chaotic proportions might just lead to finding your happily ever after.”
Source: Paperback Writers Anthology
“But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.”
“But conversation, choose what theme we may,
And chiefly when religion leads the way,
Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs,
Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.”
“But cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in them, that the choice must always be made, if not of the lesser evil, at least of the GREATER, not the PERFECT good; and that in every political institution, a power to advance the public happiness, involves a discretion which may be misapplied and abused.”
Source: The Fœderalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Fœderal Convention, September 17, 1787. Reprinted from the Original Text. With an Historical Introduction and Notes
“But cord blood also holds the great potential of producing pleural potential cells that could cure many other diseases such as juvenile diabetes, a disease that I live with every day.”
“But could he endure it, that other men knew her in a way that he, Staines, did not? He did not know.”
Source: The Luminaries
“But could it be little me you was hecklin me Now it's monotony winnin regularly”
“But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.”
Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It
“But countless studies have shown that a cue and a reward, on their own, aren't enough for a new habit to last. Only when your brain starts expecting the reward--craving the endorphins or sense of accomplishment--will it become automatic to lace up your jogging shoes each morning. The cue, in addition to triggering a routine, must also trigger a craving for the reward to come.”
“But courage in fighting is by no means the only form, nor perhaps even the most important. There is courage in facing poverty, courage in facing derision, courage in facing the hostility of one's own herd. In these, the bravest soldiers are often lamentably deficient. And above all there is the courage to think calmly and rationally in the face of danger, and to control the impulse of panic fear or panic rage.”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“But courage was growing in me too. Little by little it was getting harder and harder for me not to speak out.”
Source: Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
“But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.”
Source: The Razorland Trilogy
“But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.”
“But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.”
Source: The Last of the Wine
“But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.”
Source: The last battle
“But crazy people never think they're crazy. You're sane just by the virtue of the question.”
“But credit card debt is unsecured debt, which means if you get in trouble and cannot pay off your credit card, you can discharge it in bankruptcy. What are they going do to you? If you're in a financial position to just methodically pay off both credit card and student loans, pay them all.”
“But Crispin had had three souls in Jad's creation to live with and love, and all three were gone. Was the knowledge of other losses to assuage his own? Sometimes, half asleep at night in the house, a wine flask empty by his bed, he would lie in the dark and think he heard breathing, a voice, one of the girls crying aloud in her dreams in the next room.”
Source: Sailing to Sarantium
“But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship - it's a revolutionary democracy.”
“But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.”
“But curriculum-wise, I was drawn to the sciences and specifically to physics, and I really enjoyed it and I think for a little while there, I was really thinking my schooling would be in physics, that that was something I loved.”
“But Cyrus—”
Source: Every Spiral of Fate
“But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.”
“But DAD, life IS change.”
“But Dad looked delighted. "My Mia's singing 'Waiting for Vengeance' to my Teddy. What do you think about that?”
Source: If I Stay
“But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?”
“But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion.”
“But darkness, too, really existed, as light's opposite pole.”
Source: Ring
“but darling if he loved you, would he want to see you cry?”
Source: Once a Girl, Now a Woman
“But darling yesterday I was a different person, today I see you for what you are.”
Source: Write like no one is reading 2
“but darling
you are a river.
the rocks will
break you
the valleys will bend you.
but you will never
stop
because that is what you do.
you flow.”
Source: Udaari: a collection of poems
“But darling, I wish you well On your way to the wishing well”