B Quotes
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“But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.”
“But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.”
“But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.”
Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
“But I always wanted to do a theatrical stuff. But when you're in a metal band of course you're limited because five people in the band, um, you've got no keyboards... you're limited. And I wanted... to go over-the-top, you know. Literally. I wanted to make an album that people would either hate or love.”
“But I always worked harder when I was up against something, or when someone assumed I couldn't succeed. That's what drove me, all those nights studying. The fact that so many figured I couldn't do it.”
Source: This Lullaby
“But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul.”
“But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.”
Source: Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus
“But I am a dreamer So you sent me away. Sometimes we dreamers Just get in the way.”
“But I am a girl with a keen interest in having it all, and what follows are hopeful dispatches from the frontlines of that struggle.”
Source: Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's
“But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Wilkie Collins (Illustrated)
“But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.”
“But I am a patient man. I can wait for hours in the rain”
Source: Dora Bruder
“But I am a top only – just so you know up front. And I don’t kiss.” Another Julia Roberts.”
Source: Porn Again
“But I am a Widow’s Son, outlawed and my orders must be obeyed.”
“But I am a-eppisodin' and a-eppisodin' to a length and depth almost onprecedented and onheard of - and to resoom and go on.”
“But I am all for love, and I am against marriage, particularly the arranged kind, because the arranged marriage gives you satisfaction. And love? - love can never satisfy you. It gives you more and more thirst for a better and better love, it makes you more and more long for it, it gives you tremendous discontentment. And that discontent is the beginning of the search for God. When love fails many times, you start looking for a new kind of lover, a new kind of love, a new quality of love. That love affair is prayer, meditation, sannyas.”
“But I am also concerned about our moral uprightness and the health of our souls. Therefore I must oppose any attempt to gain our freedom by the methods of malice, hate, and violence that have characterized our oppressors. Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Many of our inner conflicts are rooted in hate. This is why psychiatrists say, “Love or perish.” Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
Source: The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
“But I am an author, and authors are curious. We observe things, spy on things, record things, listen in on people’s conversations, and use bits and pieces of the information gathered to flavour our prose stew.”
Source: College Life of a Retired Senior: A Memoir of Perseverance, Faith, and Finding the Way
“But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.”
“But I am beginning to understand about the dignity and the art of wigs and the makeup. This small, everyday attentiveness of eyebrow pencils is perhaps a picture of the very sort of bodily care our embodied God would have us cultivate, weather in illness or wellness, whether our bodies are in the throes of ecstasy or the throes of pain.”
Source: Mudhouse Sabbath
“But I am coming to identify that feeling of embarrassment as something akin to tenderness, because in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being MOVED, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourselves by witnessing its abundance in another, moonwalking toward the half and half, or ringing his bell on Cass Street, can hurt. Until it becomes, if we are lucky, an opening.”
“But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens.”
“But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.”
“but i am content to live in the moment, and allow myself the daily pleasure of obsessing. nothing lasts forever, i tell myself. especially the good stuff. although typically you aren't faced with a hard deadline”
Source: Something Borrowed: A Novel
“But I am convinced, if this battle must be won and this is the ground we must take, then we are the men to do it.--Silver Moon”
Source: Silver Moon
“But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home.”
Source: Herzl Speaks His Mind on Issues, Events, and Men
“But I am dead certain--ba-dump-bump-ching--that I'm the first guy to lead an army of spirits in an assault from the spirit-world side...and had them start off screaming, "BOO!”
Source: Ghost Story
“But I am deceiving myself in talking about a Christian republic; these terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is too favorable to tyranny for tyranny not to take advantage of it at all times. True Christians are made to be slaves. They know it and are hardly moved by this. This brief life has too little value in their eyes.”
Source: The Social Contract
“But I am getting sentimental. Sometimes, when I think about these things, I do.”
Source: The Secret History
“But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put on my tombstone. 'This Man Died from Living Too Much'.”
Source: gilt-edged bonds
“But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.”
“But I am homesick for arms that have never held me”
“But I am I now; and so many other millions are so irretrievably their own special variety of 'I' that I can hardly bear to think of it. I: how firm a letter; how reassuring the three strokes: one vertical, proud and assertive, and then the two short horizontal lines in quick, smug succession. The pen scratching on the paper…I…I…I…I…I…I.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind”
Source: Novels and Social Writings
“But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill; it is the business I have chosen, and the only governing rule that we all recognize is: always sit close to an exit and never trust a man who doesn't sweat.”
Source: Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream
“But I am influenced by the world that says I influence it. The world I live in is my influence.”
“But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer.”
“But I am king. And the well-being of my kingdom depends on my sound judgment and clear head. And those things depend on my state of happiness. And I have known for a long time that my state of happiness depends on you.”
Source: Summers at Castle Auburn
“But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.”
Source: Something Borrowed: A Novel
“But I am living in the midst of the uncertainty and risk, amid things that can and do bring physical destruction, because I am running from things that can destroy my soul: complacency, comfort, and ignorance. I am much more terrified of living a comfortable life in a self-serving society and failing to follow Jesus than I am of any illness or tragedy.”
“But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is so favorable to tyranny that it always profits by such a regime. True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not much mind; this short life counts for too little in their eyes.”
Source: On the Social Contract
“But I am more than a name. More than they tell me”
Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox
“But I am never truly as brave as I pretend to be, and, actually, I have a theory that he is absolutely the only creature in the universe who is.”
Source: Doctor Who: The Legends of River Song
“But I am not allowed to forget
The taste of the tears of yesterday.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
“But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I'm not so happy.”
“But I am not discouraged. I do not despair for our country. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency, compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail.”
“But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.”
“But I am not good for you. I am imperfect in every way possible.” - Willa
“Yet, it’s your flaws that make you shine and remind me of the beauty that resides within your soul.” - Rayan”
Source: Masked Temptation
“but I am not here ironically; I am here sincerely.”
Source: Magical Thinking: True Stories
“But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.”
Source: Selected poems by Fernando Pessoa: including poems by his heteronyms: Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis [and] Alvaro de Campos, as well as some of his English sonnets and selections from his letters