B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But how to do feelings? All very well to write "She felt sad", or describe what a sad person might do, but what of sadness itself, how was that put across so it could be felt in all its lowering immediacy? Even harder was the threat, or the confusion of feeling contradictory things.”
“But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery.”
“But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.”
“But how to hurt someone who was made only of pain?”
Source: She Who Became the Sun
“But how to know the falsity of death? How can we know there is no death? Until we know that, our fear of death will not go either. Until we know the falsity of death, our lives will remain false. As long as there is fear of death, there cannot be authentic life. As long as we tremble with the fear of death, we cannot summon the capacity to live our lives. One can live only when the shadow of death has disappeared forever. How can a frightened and trembling mind live? And when death seems to be approaching every second, how is it possible to live? How can we live?”
“But how to raise a sum in the different States has been my greatest difficulty.”
“But how was she supposed to ask him?
Hey, can I get your number?
Maybe we can get coffee?
Do you want to have hot dirty sex with me? 'Cause I want to have hot dirty sex with you.”
Source: Falling for the Backup
“But how we are remembered is less important than what we do now.”
Source: Lore
“But how will I eat cake if my head is over there, and my hands are over here?”
“But how will I know it's my destiny?'
'Like love it will possess you... You can't help but know.”
Source: The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
“But how will I know who my Soul Mate is?” Brida felt that this was one of the most important questions she had ever asked in her life.
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“by taking risks," she said to Brida,“By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in your search for Love. As long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end.”
Source: Brida
“But how will I know who my Soulmate is? Brida felt that this was one of the most important questions she had ever asked in her life.”
Source: Brida: A Novel
“But how will I know who my Soulmate is?” Brida felt that this was one of the most important questions she had ever asked in her life. By taking risks’ she said to Brida. ‘ By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in you search for Love. As long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end.”
“But how will we learn from our mistakes if we don’t make any?”
Source: The Other Merlin
“But how will you get back? I'm worried Percy." I hoped I wasn't blushing. It was bad enough I had to depend on my mom to drive me to battles.
"It's okay Ms Jackson" Annabeth smiled reassuringly. Her blonde hair was tucked into a ski cap and her grey eyes were the same color as the ocean. "We'll keep him out of trouble."
My mom seemed to relax a little. She thinks Annabeth is the most level-headed demigod to enter eighth grade. She's sure Annabeth often keeps me from getting killed. She's right but that doesn't mean I have to like it.”
“But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?’ Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.”
“But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone.”
“But however desirable an evolutionary framework for a history of knowledge may be, the important questions is whether it is actually possible to recognize an evolutionary logic in the historical records - without imposing it by an exaggerated analogy with biology and without ascending to a level of abstraction where all cats become gray. I believe that the historical findings examined in the preceding chapters point in such a direction, in particular the long-term, cumulative aspects of knowledge development, its dependence on contingent societal contexts, and the profound transformations of the architecture of knowledge.
Examples are the emergence of new systems of knowledge from a reorganization of preceding systems; the sedimentation and plateau-building processes of knowledge economies; the transformation of contingent circumstances and challenges into internal conditions for the further development of knowledge systems, accounting for the path dependency and layered structure of this development; and the feedback mechanisms that may arise between knowledge economies and knowledge systems, giving rise to the emergence of new epistemic communities.
Just like the evolution of life, knowledge development has direction but us not globally uniform. It is neither deterministic nor teleological. Chance events may have long-term effects by becoming incorporated into the developmental process. Knowledge development is self-referential insofar as it contributes to shaping its own environment by processes of sedimentation and plateau formation corresponding to niche construction in biology. It is also a layered process, in the sense that later forms of knowledge do not necessarily replace earlier ones. External representations shape the long-term transmission of knowledge, ensuring its continuity, while their exploration under different circumstances opens up possibilities for variation and change.”
Source: The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene
“But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.”
Source: The Collector
“But however happy you are feeling, you can't talk with your mouth full of snow.”
“But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out.”
Source: Practical Truths
“But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.”
“But however mysterious is nature , however ignorant the doctor, however imperfect the present state of physical science , the patronage and the success of quacks and quackeries are infinitely more wonderful than those of honest and laborious men of science and their careful experiments.”
Source: THE HUMBUGS OF THE WORLD
“But, however tempting it is to kill people, it is also bad.
And difficult.”
Source: The Bullet That Missed
“But however you might rebel, there was no shedding them. They were your responsibility and there was no one to relieve you of them. They called you Sis. All your life people called you Sis, because that was what you were, or what you became - big sister, helpful sister, the one upon whom everyone depended, the one they all came to for everything from help with homework to a sliver under the fingernail.”
Source: Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West
“But huge photographs of dead bodies are slightly different. I couldn't find much humor there.”
“But human beings are, by nature, sad.
So be it, then. It isn't all that bad.”
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
“But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.”
“But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.”
Source: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
“But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.”
Source: A Short History Of Myth
“But human borders mean nothing to air, water, windblown soil or seeds or migrating fish, birds or mammals.”
“But human deciding what to eat without professional guidance - something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees - is seriously unprofitable if you're a food company, a definite career loser if you're nutritionist, and just plain boring if you're a newspaper editor or reporter.”
Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.”
Source: Daniel Deronda
“But human flesh is weak. And the human spirit is weak as well — before curiosity, before desire, before doubt.”
Source: Before the Eyes of Doubt
“But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.”
Source: The Brandons, and others
“But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.”
“But humanism has always had a shadow side. No epoch is either purely good or purely evil. Good and evil are twin threads that run through the history of mankind. And often they intertwine.”
Source: Sophie’s World
“But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.”
Source: The Machine Stops
“But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.”
Source: Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths
“But hunger could wear down even the bravest heart.”
Source: Awaken
“But hunger, like food, comes in many shapes and colors.”
“But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.”
“But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)
“But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works
“But Hyacinth Bridgerton, who at ten should have known the least about kisses of anyone, just blinked thoughtfully, and said, “I think it's nice. If they're laughing now, they'll probably be laughing forever.” She turned to her mother. “Isn't that a good thing?”
Source: The Duke And I
“But Hyacinth Bridgerton, who at ten should have known the least about kisses of anyone, just blinked thoughtfully, and said, " I think it's nice. If they're laughing now, they'll probably be laughing forever.”
“But hypochondria is a plotless story, a deviation from the regular progression of an illness from stage to stage. Without a firm diagnosis for my unreliable symptoms, I am stuck in the first scene of the drama, endlessly looping around the first few lines of dialogue. The compulsion to narrativize this experience is always there, but always thwarted. The comfortable point at which to tell the story never arrives, because everything is always in present tense. No narrative structure can help those who never get to turn the page on the opening line.”
“But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.”
“But I accepted that because God gave me other qualities and I’m grateful.”