B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But I believe we all have an inner goodness; a little flame that stays alight through the worst of trials.”
“But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way.”
“But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.”
“But I believe you are absolutely incapable of jealousy except as hurt vanity.”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
“But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the best revenge was to turn your life into a small gathering of miracles. If I could not be anchored and profound, I would try, at least, to be kind.”
“But I belong here. I could live here…hiding from the others, living among their consciences and their fears; why not? Could this be the missing link? Could it be the darkness that I fear the most… could I be… evil?”
Source: The Master of the Realities
“But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.”
Source: To the lighthouse: the original holograph draft
“But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.”
“But I bring it up to let you know that this is the way I feel right now. Like Jupiter are aligned with the earth and i'm floating.”
Source: All the Bright Places
“But I bring it up to let you know that this is the way I feel right now. Like Pluto and Jupiter are aligned with the earth and I'm floating.”
Source: All the Bright Places
“But I came awake and you weren’t there and in that moment I knew my whole world began and ended with you.” - Caine”
Source: Ride Dirty
“But I came from a conservative Republican background.”
“But I came to see that Las Vegas is not a freak but is, instead, deeply integrated with the rest of the country, and the world beyond. It is symptom, mirror, metaphor.”
Source: Children of Las Vegas: True Stories of Growing up in the World's Playground
“But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.”
“But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.”
Source: Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories
“But I can just feel she's glad she's a Christian and that she'd be one even if she could get to heaven without it.”
Source: Anne of Green Gables
“But I can no longer ready any faith's Napoleonic saber rattling without picturing smoking rubble on cable news. I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.”
“But I can now understand why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I'll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have recently felt but never said out loud. I want to reach into the page and tell the characters that I understand them, that they're not alone, that I'm not alone, that it's ok to feel like this. And then the lunch bell rings, the book closes, and I'm plunged back into reality.”
Source: Flawed
“But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.”
“But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.”
“But I can please God”
Source: Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
“But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.”
“But… I can see inside.” I pointed. “Look, there was a brain in there after all!”
Source: Elves of Fate: Denial
“But I can see. I can see everything. I can see things that Mom and Dad can’t. Or won’t.”
Source: Tangerine
“But I can sit here with my dwindling days and look at what I think is important in life.
I have both the time - and the reason - to do that.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“but I can stand here reciting all the words I have
over the hole & that's what's left—”
Source: Brute: Poems
“But I can still lick the spoon!”
“But I can’t control my dreams. I can’t even remember them. For all I know I’m having the time of my life when I sleep, but I just can’t remember. So I’m forced to live in a life I have no control over. A life where I’m either numb to everything or terrified of every thought that crosses my mind. If this is all just a dream, then it sure is a disappointing one.
But I still have time to try and control my dreams. I have time to try and make my dreams a reality in this waking life as well. The one bloody thing I have is time. I’ve got to remember that. I still have time. And despite everything, there is something reassuring about that.”
Source: The Artist, The Audience, and a Man Called Nothing
“But I can't do anything for him and he can't do anything for me. We must wail in our own corners.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“But I can't figure out how to keep Reid alive in my heart without the ache. Will it always be like this? I have to believe it will get better. But then, do I want it to? Because when it gets better, what will be lost in the process? Already, I know that it will come with a price.”
Source: Still: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Motherhood
“But I can’t help myself. And there he is, larger than
life on the screen, looking every bit as tortured and handsome
as he did the last time he tried to contact me a few
weeks ago. (Harmony/Jondoe)”
Source: Thumped
“But I can't help thinking about the graves I saw on this summer's trip, and the millions of people in them, and the millions more without graves. The ones who are smoke.
And I find that I can feel it, at last. Or that I've always felt it, without knowing what it was: the Holocaust, roaring down the generations like a wave of radiation, eradicating, in everyone it touches, the ability to trust people, experience joy; fall in love, believe in love when you see it in others.
("Dancing Men")”
Source: Best New Horror 15
“But I can't help thinking of the shock I felt when I finally realised it was winter, on exiting Mizuko's apartment. The summer was long gone, but I hadn't noticed until then.”
Source: Sympathy
“But I can’t . . . I can’t leave anyone to the darkness.”
Source: Cruel Beauty
“But I can’t leave, not yet. I’ll stay with her until sunrise. If I brace my feet, I won’t slide. I can rest my cheek on the roof tile and still see her. Pacing. Pulling her hair.
“I’ll fix you,” I tell her. “I promise.”
Even though I don’t know how.
It’s better than good-bye.”
Source: Candor
“But i can't let you go," he said. "How could I let you go? I searched my heart"—he shrugged— "and I love you.”
Source: The Infinite Moment of Us
“But I can’t manage to grow up and change shape. I’m still tiny, and staying that way, perhaps because I know the secret that everyone pretends to be unaware of, perhaps because I know that deep down we’re all tiny.”
Source: No and Me
“But I can't pretend I don't know how little the goodwill of even the best surgeon can accomplish against the workings of fate. A man's hands are rooted firmly in the earth, Angela. God, if he exists, is behind our backs.”
“But I can't pretend that I don't like the sound of him screaming my name.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“But I can't remember anymore what it's like to not be happy.”
Source: The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
“But I can't rewrite history. I can only live with what's left.”
Source: The Treatment
“But I can't say that gratitude was my motive for infringing on the Law of Cultural Embargo. I was not paying my debt to him. Such debts remain owing. Estraven and I had simply arrived at the point where we shared whatever we had that was worth sharing.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“But I can’t talk to her because she’s going through hell and she doesn’t need to hear me ranting about a vase. But that happens sometimes, Rose, you want to talk about stuff but you can’t because your friends are going through things—real things, painful things—and you can’t talk to them because your stuff doesn’t feel as important as theirs.”
Source: Heart-Shaped Bruise
“But I can't translate it the right way, that's why I always use so many languages around you, because there're some things that simply can't translate, that are beautiful when you read them the original way.”
Source: I Sold Myself To The Devil For Vinyls... Pitiful I Know
“But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.”
“But I can tell you I myself have made many mistakes. Things sometimes I would be ashamed to admit. But if it weren't for those mistakes I wouldn't have seen the beauty in me. I wouldn't have awoken the goddess that lives in me. You see, goddesses although immortal were all flawed. They were all a bit extreme at their calling, and they were all betrayed and hurt at some point. They were even considered devious but what made them unique was their strength.”
“But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.”
“But I can tell you this: that I am deeply proud of Rebecca. That she made a split-second decision to save the life of her son, turning the wheel of her vehicle so that her side of it would be impacted by an oncoming car instead of his. She gave her life in the exercise of the greatest gift that God grants us—the ability to change the trajectory of history.”
Source: Version Control
“But I can tell you this. You won’t be alone. I will be with you. I promise.”
Source: Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal
“But I can tell you this: Nothing will happen up there that can duplicate my life down here. That life cannot be better than the one I've lived down here, the football life. It's been perfect.”