B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But fairness is where we’re heading, at least in regard to marriage, which has emerged as the terrain on which Americans are hashing out their feelings about gays and lesbians. The trajectory is undeniable. The trend line is clear. And the choice before the justices is whether to be handmaidens to history, or whether to sit it out.”
“But faithfulness can feed on suffering,
And knows no disappointment.”
Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy
“But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another...We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory. Who knows?...Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you.'
'I doubt it.'
Odysseus shrugs. 'We cannot say. We are men only, a brief flare of the torch. Those to come may raise us or lower us as they please. Patroclus may be such as will rise in the future.'
'He is not.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another... We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory. Who knows? Perhaps one day I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you... We are men only. A brief flare of the torch. Those to come may raise us or lower us as they please.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“But fame is theirs - and future days
On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise;
Shall tell - when cold neglect is dead -
"These for their country fought and bled."”
Source: Poems on Various Subjects: But Chiefly Illustrative of the Events and Actors in the American War of Independence
“But family connections are weird. Even if your relatives aren't good to you, they're still your blood. You can't lose that connection completely. And believe me, I've got a few relatives on my dad's side I'd love to lose.”
“But family life sometimes had a vortex, like weather. It could be like a tornado in a quiet zigzag: get close enough and you might see within it a spinning eighteen-wheeler and a woman.”
Source: A Gate at the Stairs
“But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.”
“But far too many innocent youngsters have been needlessly ground up in a bureaucratic meat grinder. There isn't anything accidental about such a waste of potential and life.”
Source: Children of the Broken Treaty: Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream
“But far, oh, far as passionate eye can reach, And long, ah, long as rapturous eye can cling, The world is mine: blue hill, still silver lake, Broad field, bright flower, and the long white road A gateless garden, and an open path: My feet to follow, and my heart to hold.”
Source: Collected Poems
“But farmers are patient men tried by brutal seasons, and if they weren't plagued by dreams of generation, few would keep plowing, spring after spring.”
Source: The Overstory
“But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form.”
“But fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to claim, and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh, he once told me, or else you'll just weep yourself to death.”
Source: The Winter King
“But Fate does iron wedges drive,
And always crowds itself betwixt.”
Source: Selected poems
“But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.”
Source: The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life
“But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.”
Source: Pathfinder
“But fathers are soft on daughters. Look how Dad favors Angela. He gave her ten times more. Because she reminded him of Mae West. He was always smiling at her boobs. He wasn't aware of it. Mother and I saw it.”
Source: Mr. Sammler's Planet
“But Fauci and other public health experts rapidly changed course. They intentionally obscured the fact that the coronavirus posed only a tiny risk to healthy people under fifty. On March 18, Dr. Deborah Birx, a member of the federal coronavirus task force, cited “concerning reports coming out of France and Italy about some young people getting seriously ill.” Fauci made a similar comment a week later.
Why? A March 22 paper from a SAGE subcommittee—kept hidden from the public at the time, but released months later—offered an answer. Only by pretending the virus posed a significant risk to everyone could governments ensure the public would accept lockdowns.”
Source: Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives
“But fear - panic - knows no reason. It brings into being overnight the things that it fears. It is the greatest torment of humanity. Fear is, in short, the devil. It causes most of the sin, disaster, disease and misery of the world. It is the ravening lion roaming the earth seeking whom it may...devour. The only refuge is in the knowledge that it has no power other than the power you give it.”
“But fear and anxiety are not the same at all. One is an appropriate reaponse to a real situation which I can accept and learn to work through just as I work through semi-blindness. But the other, anxiety, is an immobilizing yield to things that go bump in the night, a surrender to namelessness, formlessness, voicelessness, and silence.”
Source: The Cancer Journals
“But fear and fascination are yokefellows, oxen out of step but pulling in the same direction...”
“But Fear and the Muse in turn guard the place
Where the banished poet has gone
And the night that comes with quickened pace
Is ignorant of dawn.”
“But fear doesn't need doors and windows. It works from the inside.”
Source: Things Not Seen
“But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win.”
Source: Finding Alice
“But fear is part of your game, isn't it?" I look at him. "The fear that you might hurt me. That you might actually use that thing on
me." I glance at the billy club, lying a few feet away, and I shudder. "Did it not excite you, just a little?" He smiles and I see the gleam of cruelty beneath the surface of those dark eyes.
"You wouldn't really use it on me, would you?"
"That is the mystery, is it not? How far will I go? Will I use the whip too savagely and tear your beautiful back? You do not know. You cannot predict what I will do next." He slides his fingers down my cheek. "Danger is intoxicating, Ava. So is pain. I give you only as much as you want. As much as you can bear."
"I don't know what I can bear."
"This we shall learn.”
Source: The Shape of Night
“But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo.”
Source: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings
“But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it.”
Source: Beautiful Shining People
“But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.”
Source: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery
“But feelings aren't like thoughts, they can't be changed at will.”
Source: Marshmallows for breakfast
“But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.”
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
“But feelings, no matter how strong or “ugly,” are not a part of who you are. They are the radio stations your mind listens to if you don’t give it something better to do. Feelings are fluid and dynamic; they change frequently. Feelings are something you HAVE, not something you ARE. Like physical beauty, a cold sore, or an opinion. Admitting you feel rage or terrible pain or regret or some old, rotten blame does not mean these feelings are part of who you are as a person. What these feelings mean is, you have to change your thinking to be free of them.”
Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
“But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.”
Source: Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.”
“But few prize honour more than money.”
“But Fia was very young and pitifully thin, by no means underfed, but undeveloped, short on muscle, short on work. What was she to do with herself, this talented girl? Her parents could afford to keep her at home or to keep her abroad, whichever she preferred, and whether she was here or there she was nice, she was charming, and she never went upstairs two steps at a time, no, never.”
Source: The Women at the Pump
“But fibbing, including “polite” or social lies, can become part of the daily fabric of living—a way of avoiding conflict and complication that becomes so habitual we fail to notice even the fact of it and its imperceptible erosion of our integrity and our relationships.”
Source: The Dance of Deception: A Guide to Authenticity and Truth-Telling in Women's Relationships
“But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“But fighting to give women and girls a fighting chance isn’t a nice thing to-do. It isn’t some luxury that we get to when we have time on our hands to spend. This is a core imperative for every human being in every society. If we do not continue the campaign for women’s rights and opportunities, the world we want to live, the country we all love and cherish, will not be what it should be.”
“But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart.”
“But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh.”
“But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you’re not snooping into somebody else’s lives?”
“But Fin would always be a bit of a romantic, at least when it came to books.”
Source: Fin & Lady
“But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it.”
“But finding a voice-let's be clear-is a political act. It defines a moment of presence, of being awake; and it involves not only self-understanding, but the ability to transmit that selfunderstanding to others...To experience yourself as "voiceless" is a definition of depression, subjugation, and being counted out. .”
“But finding these 16 warheads just raises a basic question: Where are the other 29,984? Because that is how many empty chemical warheads the U.N. Special Commission estimated he had - and he has never accounted for.”
“But fine was not what she wanted. Was that too much to ask? That she should feel something?”
Source: The Sunshine Sisters
“But first and foremost, I learned from Whitman that the poem is a temple—or a green field—a place to enter, and in which to feel. Only in a secondary way is it an intellectual thing—an artifact, a moment of seemly and robust wordiness—wonderful as that part of it is. I learned that the poem was made not just to exist, but to speak—to be company.”
Source: Upstream: Selected Essays
“But first be a person who needs people. People who need people are the luckiest people in the world.”