B Quotes
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“But for the most part, for the majority of a stand-up audience, you better have new stuff they've not heard. And if you put an album out, just consider that material gone. At least that's how I see it.”
“But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.”
Source: Magician: Master
“But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.”
Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
“But for the outcasts like me, the ones who don't fit the box, the only words that remind me I'm human are my own.”
Source: Queen of Hearts
“But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence [...] truth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred. Sacredness is in fact held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to 'be the highest degree of sacredness.”
Source: Essence of Christianity
“But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and blessed fatigue of a saint after the dark night of the soul. For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same.”
Source: All the King's Men
“But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.”
Source: Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, comprising all the works collected under the title of
“But for the silly chaps, we would still be living in the Stone Age.”
“But for the time being, I've only learned one cake recipe and how to make scrambled eggs.”
“But for the unquiet heart and brain
A use in measured language lies;
The sad mechanic exercise
Like dull narcotics numbing pain.”
“But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.”
“But for the wise, it says in the Bible: when a wise man hears wisdom, he reacts. When a fool hears it, his acts are folly. If you wanna be a fool, help yourself, it's not my problem.”
“But for their cries,
The herons would be lost
Amidst the morning snow.”
“But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person, even as to matters of fact; for, if the government can dictate to a jury any law whatever, in a criminal case, it can certainly dictate to them the laws of evidence.”
Source: An Essay on the Trial by Jury
“But for this book we could not know right from wrong.”
“But for those people who might give up: Get real about what you want and go after it.”
“But for those who spawned them and then forgot them to exist, it seemed there was only one thing that could momentarily draw them away from the kinds of blithe exchanges which he did not doubt carried real-world consequences for real people and other living things that must have existed only in theory in their spreadsheet and accounting ledger minds.”
Source: The Subtle Cause
“But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.”
Source: Selected poems
“But for us there are moments, O, how solemn, when destiny trembles in the balance and the preponderance of either scale is by our own choice.”
Source: Teachings and Counsels: Twenty Baccalaureate Sermons; with a Discourse on President Garfield
“But for us to assume that God could not act in other ways is, I think, to put God in an awfully small box.”
“But for us, in Syria, we have principles. We'll do anything to prevent the region from another crazy war. It's not only Syria. Because it will start in Syria.”
“But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.”
“But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.”
Source: Candide
“But foreign should not be defined in geographical terms. Then it would have no meaning except territorial or tribal patriotism. To me that alone is foreign which is foreign to truth, foreign to Atman.”
“But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.”
“But forgiveness is the act of not putting anyone out of your heart, even those who are acting out of deep ignorance or out of confusion and pain.”
Source: Meditation for Beginners: Six Guided Meditations for Insight, Inner Clarity, and Cultivating a Compassionate Heart
“But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.”
“But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.”
“But fortunately for us and for all men, it has not been given unto us to judge, nor to execute, nor to measure out the days and the years of men. We may be most grateful that such matters belong to the Lord God our Father, who sees things past and things to come. And, we may be grateful for the assurance that there is plan and purpose in this world, and in our own lives.”
“but Fortune, O!
She is corrupted, chang'd, and won from thee;
Sh' adulterates hourly with thine uncle John,
And with her golden hand hath pluck'd on France
To tread down fair respect of sovereignty,
And made his majesty the bawd to theirs.
France is a bawd to Fortune and King John-
That strumpet Fortune, that usurping John”
Source: King John
“But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.”
Source: The lais of Marie de France
“But fourteen hundred years of interpreting the Rule has imbued to it a suppleness, an elasticity that allows its adherents to bend, twist and crane their necks with ease, and to smile and nod without feeling guilty or sinful or deserving of a chastising thunderbolt from Heaven”
Source: Lorenzo Searches For The Meaning Of Life
“But Fred doesn’t believe that there is no real and desirable London. That city exists: he dwelt there for six months as a child often, and last week he revisited it. Though some of its landmarks have vanished, those that remain shimmer with meaning and presence as if benignly radioactive.”
Source: Foreign Affairs
“But free will is what it means to be human, and no one can determine the path you take through this universe. Choice is our greatest right, our greatest gift-and our greatest responsibility.”
Source: Their Fractured Light
“But freedom from an interfering state is no guarantee of individual autonomy; something more is needed for that. Genuine autonomy demands that we act deliberately, that our beliefs, values, and decisions are really are own, and this means that we need to have a handle on the reasons that shape our behaviour. But this is no easy task. Our reasons for acting are not always transparent, even to us. Self-knowledge is not a given, but it is not out of reach, either. It is something that we can work at, and with understanding comes options. Knowing why we behave the way we do can help us to see choices where we previously saw none.”
“But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and influences which constitute the destiny of man are brought into the centered unity of a decision.”
“But freedom might be better than survival.”
Source: The Sound of Stars
“But Freedom Strike was actually quite cool.”
“But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.”
Source: TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE
“But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old Labour Party was incompatible with democracy, and I don't think that there is a good theoretical or empirical basis for that view. The Road to Serfdom flunks the test of accuracy of prediction!”
“But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined”
“But friends, those I wanted to please? There are so few, so few... and you're one of them. You... because you have such a gift for life. You grab hold of it with both hands. You move, you dance, you know how to make the rain and the sunshine in a home. You have this incredible gift for making people around you happy. You're so at ease, so at ease on this little planet.”
Source: Someone I Loved
“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.”
Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson
“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.”
Source: Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait
“But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.”
Source: Poems 2
“But friendship isn't one of life's little luxuries.
It's a necessity.
To go through the world without the closest of friends is like walking it with a missing leg, with no crutch to be found when you need that support.
Friends are the breath left to us when we run out of our own. They're the mirrors we need when we cannot see ourselves clearly. They point out our little flaws and, in times, the larger ones we must tend to. And, of course, they help us out of trouble as much as they help us into it. They are the truest form of reciprocation.
You may think me callow for describing friendship in this way. That I demean friendship--make it seem like an exchange. But you are wrong. Friends are the ones willing and most able to give anything--everything when they can. And you do the same. It is never said. But it is the unspoken agreement in friendship. A reciprocation of feelings--actions. Of time.
Which, I have learned over the course of my life, is an alternate way of spelling the word "love." People want time given to them--for them. For it's a kind of love the world is in all too short supply of. And for that, they will love you back. That is friendship.”
Source: The Doors of Midnight
“But friendships are mercurial. They're shape-shifters. I've learned to allow them to fluctuate and take new forms. I love my friends; that's all that matters.”
Source: The Return
“But Froi looked around with wonder.
As if he had never seen the world from up so high before.”
Source: Finnikin of the Rock
“But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.”
Source: The Complete Poetry
“but from a very bad family, too, one can keep precious memories, if only one's soul knows how to seek out what is precious.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov