B Quotes
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“But he was there.Day and night he was there for me,risking his very existence to protect me from a war that claimed my life over and over again.He never faltered,never wavered,never feared for his own safety.He was beaten,stabbed,abused, and tortured again and again,yet he still stuck by me,ignoring the possibility that he would die for me one day. It wasn't right. I didn't deserve everything he sacrificed for me.I wasn't worth so high a price.”
Source: Angelfire
“But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to become passionate about something that was impossible. I knew my limits; I knew how much suffering i could bear.”
“But he wasn't really thinking properly. It was as if the thoughts were chasing each other round and round his head without managing to catch up with each other.”
Source: The Dream Merchant
“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”
“But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal.”
Source: Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias
“But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“But he who knows not when to obey shall find that he's really obeying his rebellious lower aspects. His animal nature, if you well. So then, is he really a rebel at all”
Source: Lifemaker
“But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Apuleius (Illustrated)
“But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes.”
Source: Love Poems
“But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.”
“But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more!”
Source: The poetical works of N.P. Willis
“But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!”
Source: The Works of Eugene Field Vol. VII: The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
“But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.”
Source: penelopeia, a wife's enduring love
“But he will be all the better fitted for business, because of the help it [sport] gives him. Polish is easily added if the foundations are strong, but no amount of gilding will be of use if your timber is not sound.”
Source: Eight Cousins
“But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition
“But he would have us most of all remember to be enthusiastic over the night. Not only for the sense of wonder it alone has to offer but also because it needs our love. For with sad eyes its delectable creatures look up and beg us dumbly to ask them to follow. They are exiles who long for a future that lies in our power.”
“But he'd learned long ago that a life lived without risks pretty much wasn't worth living. Life rewarded courage, even when that first step was taken neck-deep in fear.”
Source: Within My Heart (Timber Ridge Reflections Book #3)
“But he's looking for love in all the wrong places. Like fancy under catalogs At least he knows enough not to date while he's campaigning”
“But he's Rachel Candy!" -Both Jenks and Al”
“But hear thee, Gratiano:
Thou art too wild, too rude, and bold of voice -
Parts that become thee happily enough,
And in such eyes as ours appear no faults,
But where thou art not known, why, there they show
Something too liberal.”
Source: The Merchant of Venice
“But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.”
“But hearts are stubborn....
They always want people
we cannot give them !”
“But hell, I do like to write letters. Much easier than writing books.”
Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
“But hell you make for yourself is still hell, maybe”
Source: More Than This
“But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got.”
Source: 1Q84
“But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays
Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days;
Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays,
And one by one back in the Closet lays.”
Source: Persian Literature: Comprising the Sháh Námeh, the Rubáiyát, the Divan and the Gulistan
“But Henry was not prepared to submit. In a speech supporting his resolutions, he supposedly exclaimed, "Tarquin and Caesar had each his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third..." Before he could finish the phrase, red-robed Speaker of the House John Robinson cried, "Treason! Treason," as other burgesses took up the cry. But Henry stared the Speaker in the eye and finished his sentence: "...may profit by their example! If this be treason, make the most of it!”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Life
“But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day.”
Source: Beloved
“But her favorite is the Houdini fantasy. Big Red disagrees with his biographers, who say that he was driven by his longing to shuck off this mortal coil. She knows that he was all the time just searching for a box that could hold him.”
Source: St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
“But her grandmother had never suggested she could think the same of Scarlet. You'll be fine, she always said, after a skinned knee, after a broken arm, after her first youthfull heartbreak. You'll be fine, because you're strong, like me.”
“But her heart healed, as hearts almost always do. She brooded for a little time and then she stopped brooding.”
Source: Nettle & Bone
“But her heart was hurting her with its violence.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“But her heart was so cold that she could hold ice in her mouth and it would never melt.”
Source: Deathless
“but her mind feels feverish as it races through the crowded hallways of the past”
Source: The Space Between Us
“But her mind had never been in such perturbation; and it needed a very strong effort to appear attentive and cheerful till the usual hour of separating allowed her the relief of quiet reflection.”
Source: Emma - Jane Austen
“But her (Mini) priority was to be my emotional anchor, and she happily chose it over her own career.”
Source: My Odyssey: Memoirs of the Man behind the Mangalyaan Mission
“But her mother was nothing if not amazing.”
Source: What Happened That Night
“But her name was Esmé. She was a girl with long, long, red, red hair. Her mother braided it. The flower shop boy stood behind her and held it in his hand. Her mother cut it off and hung it from a chandelier. She was Queen. Mazishta. Her hair was black and her handmaidens dressed it with pearls and silver pins. Her flesh was golden like the desert. Her flesh was pale like cream. Her eyes were blue. Brown.”
Source: Lips Touch: Three Times
“But her nascent love inflamed her sense of beauty, and she would never forget that music. Whenever she heard it, she would be touched. Everything going on around her at that moment would be haloed by the music and take on its beauty.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“But her relationship with food was all about being Carmen of Seville. It was her truth, her statement to the world. And she didn't care if she had to use her beauty queen smarts to get people too take a bite- because once they had a taste of her flavors, of the garlic and olive oil and pinches of smoked paprika, pimentón,they would know. Carmen Vega wasn't just another pretty face. She was an artist.”
Source: Comfort Food
“But her role had changed; she was now available for marriage and her primary task was to find a mate. As Florence and Hugh Bell's daughter, she was expected to make an excellent match. And if there wasn't one here, at least she would learn how to conduct herself for the chase.”
Source: Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
“But her smile is vacant. Placid. A Stepford Wife smile. The tears fall but there is nothing behind them. She’s a mannequin crying on command.”
Source: Dinner on Monster Island: An Intimate Collection of Essays Exploring Queerness, Cultural Monsters, and Personal Growth
“But her's was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its brightness.”
Source: Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus
“But Herbier was much too fond of Africa and it’s people to feel sorry that he had never been able to to contemplate them from the administrative heights: a fine view, perhaps, but a distant one.”
Source: The Roots of Heaven
“But here am I, riding this steel behemoth – the most ominous killing machine ever conceived; a weapon of war with the innocuous name of carrier. It transports our crew and air wing personnel to the Oriental dens of sin. It takes us to the blood-soaked terrain of the Vietnamese. It is, in a single thought, one of the most obscene but amazingly brilliant products of human ingenuity.”
Source: God, Bombs & Viet Nam: Based on the Diary of a 20-Year-Old Navy Enlisted Man in the Vietnam Air War - 1967
“But here, as the dawn sneaks up on the last day of summer, and as a man with tired hands watches a young couple dance in the carpark of his restaurant, there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter and a slow walk home.”
Source: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
“But here God didn't come. We were all on our own.”
Source: Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
“But here he is, walking her down the aisle, all in the name of tradition, all in the name of seeing men as who we want them to be and not as who they are.”
Source: Disappoint Me
“But here," he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with you...I have no name.”