B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.”
“But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.”
“But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.”
“But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.”
“But I despise the way you use the word ‘sin’ to manipulate others.”
Feelings locked deep inside her suddenly rushed from her mouth as if a dam had been broken. “You use that word to paralyze the mind, just like we use the Silent Whistle to freeze the Beasts and Toda. I can’t bear to see people bind others like that.”
Source: The Beast Player
“But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.”
Source: The Game Of Kings: The Lymond Chronicles Book One
“But I did 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.' They made a cereal out of it, so once you've had a cereal, it doesn't get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal.”
“But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.”
“But I did feel the vertigo of death’s invitation, beckoning me towards the dark waters below. Only a newfound perspective and desire steadied my wavering soul. I came to realize, just in time, that suicide was far too easy – and obscenely cowardly – after someone I knew, not even half my age, had been through so much worse and still marched gloriously on.”
Source: Anissa's Redemption
“But I did feel violated. My little flat felt ruined–soiled and unsafe. Even describing it to the police had felt like an ordeal…”
Source: The Woman in Cabin 10
“But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.”
“But I did have two months off between Loser and the start of Prozac Nation. So, it was supposed to be Jason time, right? My time to enjoy myself away from movies.”
“But I did it. I imagined myself, muscular, lean and deliciously male, in a suit, holding my completed dissertation. I was accepted to the PhD program in History at Yale University today, as well as starting hormone replacement therapy: subcutaneously-injected testosterone in a solution with cottonseed oil. The universe, fate, or what I chose to call God, has an incredible way of working things out like that. And then I plunged the needle into my skin. I did it with clear intention and the surest, most earnest heart I have ever felt beat inside my chest...I breathed in and exhaled as I pushed the testosterone into my body for the first time. Little pinch. A leap of faith into the rest of my life.”
Source: Genderbound: An Odyssey From Female to Male
“But I did mine through a production company. All the music I did, I gave to the production company. Then the production company would give the record company the album. I used to do all my albums like that. It was fantastic. But now, understand, I have never planned to do anything with these other tapes. The one that are released, like the Virgin Ubiquity you have there, I wasn't going to do anything with that music. One day, I was talking to this guy that owns BBE over in England, and I said I've got some tapes and stuff that you might be interested in, and he went berserk.”
“But I did not always know just what it was I wanted to photograph. I believe it is important for a photographer to discover this, for unless he finds what it is that excites him, what it is that calls forth at once an emotional response, he is unlikely to achieve his best work.”
Source: Camera in London
“But I did not bring the Wild Boy to England simply so he could learn from us. I also brought him here so we could learn from him; so we can remember what it means to be young- to be innocent. You are still young now, but there will come a time when you will be grown-up, and it is easy, so easy, to forget how precious, how dear, life is. Then you forget to smile, to laugh, to cry, to dream. I hope knowing Peter will help you to hold on fiercely to your own innocence, to live joyfully, even in the midst of difficult times.”
Source: Peter: The Untold True Story
“But I did not expect science merely to extend lifespan, feed the hungry, cure disease, and shrink the world with jets and cell phones. I also expected science to banish the evils of human thought—prejudice and superstition, irrational beliefs and false fears. I expected science to be, in Carl Sagan’s memorable phrase, “a candle in a demon-haunted world.” And here, I am not so pleased with the impact of science. Rather than serving as a cleansing force, science has in some instances been seduced by the more ancient lures of politics and publicity. Some of the demons that haunt our world in recent years are invented by scientists. The world has not benefited from permitting these demons to escape.”
Source: State of Fear
“But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.”
“But I did not return until half past four this morning and I distinctly remember stubbing my toe on the stairs. I am as drunk as a skunk, Drumknott, which of course means skunks are just as drunk as I. I must say the term is unfamiliar to me, and I had not thought hitherto of skunks in this context, but Mustrum Ridcully was kind enough to enlighten me.”
Source: Unseen Academicals
“But I did not see any of it.
I saw color.
And, in distant melodies, I remembered color.”
Source: Peter
“But I did not want the future he had planned for me. I did not want a future chosen by anyone but myself.”
Source: The Secrets of Hartwood Hall
“But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that's a big difference.”
“But I did remember lying down on the beaskin rug once it was done. How I felt Elain's slim body settle next to mine and curl into my side, careful not to touch the bandaged wound in my shoulder. I had not realised how cold I was until her warmth seeped into me.
A moment later, another warm body nestled on my left. Nesta's scent drifted over me, fire and steel and unbending will.
Distantly, I heard Rhys usher everyone out- to join him in checking on Azriel, now under Thesan's care.
I didn't know how long my sisters and I lay there together, just like we had once shared that carved bed in that dilapidated cottage. Then- back then, we had kicked and twisted and fought for any bit of space, any breathing room.
But that morning, as the son rose over the world, we held tight. And did not let go.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“But I didn't... I didn't plan on actually enjoying your company. I didn't plan on coming to look forward to talking to you. And I didn't plan on the guilt that came with my actions. I didn't plan on... well, I didn't plan on caring about you.”
Source: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
“But I didn't. I didn't say anything, if only because I had no idea how to respond to such an overture. If my experience with friends was sparse, what I knew about boys- other than a competitors for grades or class rank- was nonexistent”
Source: Along for the Ride
“But I didn't know about the other story."
"What other story?”
"About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—"
"No, whatever you heard it’s not true."
"But it was really romantic"
"Then it’s definitely not true.”
Source: Shadow Kiss
“But I didn't mind. I loved that everything was cataloged and ready to go and that I was technically now living and sleeping in a library.”
“But I didn't really mind it because I knew that it
takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it to know what
true freedom is.”
“But I didn't remind you of this, because that was the fun of being sisters. Sometimes, you got to be younger than you were, and I got to be older.”
Source: Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
“But I didn't see it. I believed him unchanging, a stone in all good senses of the word, solid, dependable, something and someone you could build upon. But he is as we all are: light as air, transient as wisps of cloud before the sun, beautiful and fleeting, and if I ever did truly have hold of him, that has ended now.”
Source: Reached
“But I didn’t want to. She’s mine. I don’t know why I believe it with such conviction, but deep in my bones, I know she belongs to me. And I’ll die before anyone else touches her.”
Source: Rule of the Aurora King
“But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.”
“But I didn't even see God in the show as being very spiritual, I see him or her, it, as being something that is just relevant and very important in her life.”
“But I didn't frame it; I put into an envelope and sealed it and stuffed it far back into a corner drawer of a filing cabinet. It's there, just in case one of these days I start to lose her. There might be a morning when I wake up and her face isn't the first thing I see. Or a lazy August afternoon when I can't quite recall anymore where the freckles were on her right shoulders. Maybe one of these days, I will not be able to listen to the sound of snow falling and hear her footsteps.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel
“But I didn't know much about directing a movie.”
“But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything?”
“But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active.”
“But I didn't think about this beforehand. I just went ahead and did it, and that's the way it turned out. So I guess there are lots of paradoxes which I'll leave for other people to unscramble.”
“But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough.”
Source: Private Peaceful
“But I didn’t realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people.”
“But I dig Negroes. I dig them all the way.”
“But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right.”
Source: The Land of Ingary Trilogy (includes Howl’s Moving Castle)
“But I do admire your perseverance."
She rounded his table and gracefully sat at her desk, apparently unaware that he'd stopped dead, staring at her.
"You do?"
She was feeding the dove, which for some reason she'd brought with her this morning, but she looked up at his words, her face curious. "Yes, of course. A man who sets a course and proceeds to sail it, no matter the barriers or odds, is very admirable in my opinion."
"Ah." He ran his fingers through his hair, feeling unaccountably ill at ease. No one had told him what he was doing was good- that 'he' was good- since... well, since the death of Sir Stanley, his old mentor. "Thank you."
"You're welcome.”
Source: Sweetest Scoundrel
“But I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.”
“But I do believe if you put things out there enough, they will start to come to you. If you do the work, you're determined, persistent, and do it the right way, the things that you want will want you too.”
“But I do believe in the paranormal, that there are things our brains just can't understand.”
“But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote”
Source: Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893
“But I do believe that every single thing we’ve done leads to everything we do, and that it’s kind of pointless to regret the past when it’s the cause of our present.”
Source: Brave Face
“But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.”
“But I do believe that there's going to be a time where all movies are going to be made in 3D and it's just going to be a given, and that is going to be an exciting time.”