B Quotes
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“But I do believe that's when you do your soul-searching. I think when you have these trials that life gives you, it is an opportunity to find out who you are. Not just who you are when everything's great, but who are you when everything is taken away from you and you have nothing.”
“But I do care. I hate myself for it, but I can’t fight this desperate need to try. Try to fit in. Try to make this school experience different than all the previous ones.”
Source: Paper Princess
“But I do enjoy the freedom of doing a movie and then having some time off.”
“But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than our experiences of the things they represent—”
“But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.”
“But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.”
“But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.”
“But I do hold the view that we need to rethink and revise our picture of the Romani people and to move away from the literary images and brands, and on to understanding the real everyday lives and aspirations of a real people.”
“But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.”
“But I do know. I know Sam is going to die. I know his death is meant to be. And I know that someday, I’ll be alright again. But I’m sure as hell not gonna tell his mother this.”
Source: A Widow's Awakening
“But I do know that there was power in that web. Great power to remove curses. For Thibbledorf Pwent is very much alive, and the vampire that was Pwent is no more. I have never before heard of a cure for vampirism, nor had any of Bruenor’s clerics, nor the wizards of Longsaddle. But Pwent is cured.”
Source: Starlight Enclave
“But I do know this: that the two and a half years that I've been at HUD, I am absolutely convinced that some of the best workers in the world are in Federal Government.”
“But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, expect there's still this sound you can't hear.”
“But I do like Scotland. I like the miserable weather. I like the miserable people, the fatalism, the negativity, the violence that's always just below the surface. And I like the way you deal with religion. One century you're up to your lugs in it, the next you're trading the whole apparatus in for Sunday superstores. Praise the Lord and thrash the bairns. Ask and ye shall have the door shut in your face. Blessed are they that shop on the Sabbath, for they shall get the best bargains. Oh yes, this is a very fine country.”
“But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.”
“But I do like to think there is a difference between being resigned to a situation and reconciled to it.”
“But I do love horses. They are such an expression of joy.”
“But I do, Matt. I'm often worried about my ability to take it. Will I be able to measure up when real pain comes?"
Father Matt snuffed out the cigarette he had bee smoking and casually said: "Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof."
"Meaning?" questioned Father Lehmann.
"Meaning that we are not supposed to borrow trouble. You've answered your own question, Jim, before you asked it."
"How so?"
"By the past six and a half years. You've taken it as it came along, Jim. You'll do the same in the future - if you have the future."
"What do you mean: if I have a future?"
"Jim, God gives us one moment at a time - only one. Not days; not hours; just moments. And He gives us grace for the moment at the moment; not the grace for the next moment. He gave you the grace you needed for yesterday, yesterday; what you need for today, today; and if you are to have a tomorrow, God will be faithful." (chapter 6)”
Source: Your Hour
“But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth tem times more, I should guess, That he had not a thing in the wide world to wear!”
Source: Poems
“But I do not actually remember being a monster. I just remember wanting my own way.”
Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.”
“But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that”
“But I do not know much - except perhaps the One - as it is written thus: 'Nothing except Jesus.' Yet even added up...just copy-cat expressions, wanna-be humble platitudes, try-hard lip service, feel-strong sayings, feel-good quotations plus virtue-signalling slogans and such...these things are not enough: because He must know me.”
“But I do not know what to tell myself. Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.”
“But I do not know whether the photograph can, or does, say things as they really are. Something has been lost. But the representation is all we have.”
Source: The Edward Said Reader
“But I do not remember ever having seen a newspaper in the house; and, most certainly, that privation did not render us less industrious, happy, or free.”
Source: Beauties of Cobbett
“But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.”
“But I do nothing that I don't like, such as "inventing" up to the arty or "down" to the corny. I happen to relish a certain type of corn. What I think is the really dangerous approach is the "let's be artistic" attitude. I know that artistry just happens.”
“But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.”
“But I do realize I'm going to have to go through the pregnancy again. Mine was a really difficult pregnancy. It's tough. Of course I want to have another child. We'll see. I'm going to have one more, and see what it's like.”
“But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they’re brilliant and creative to begin with—which, unfortunately, is rarely the case—tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are merely brilliant and creative. They tend to express themselves more clearly, and they usually have a passion for following their thoughts through to the end.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“But I do say that, if you will regularly devote 15 minutes a day, preferably before breakfast, for 60 days to the simple set of exercises that I devised for conditioning men in the navy, I guarantee that you will enjoy increased physical buoyancy and mental vigor.”
“But I do think it’s important that we stay hopeful about our capacity to overcome that bigotry. And I am persuaded that hopelessness is the enemy of justice; that if we allow ourselves to become hopeless, we become part of the problem. I think you’re either hopeful, or you’re the problem. There’s no neutral place. Injustice prevails where hopelessness persists. And if I’ve inherited anything from the generation who came before me, I have inherited their wisdom about the necessity of hope.”
“But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.”
“But I do think its necessary to have debates.”
“But I do think its unwise, and it - to build a mosque at the site where 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of a terrorist attack. And I think to me it demonstrates that the - that Washington, the White House, the administration, the President himself seems to be disconnected from the mainstream of America.”
“But I do think that Brexit, an exit of Britain from the European Union, would trigger real pressure on the United Kingdom.”
“But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude.”
“But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight, ignorant line and then, every so often, takes a jump straight upward.”
“But I do think that women who spend all their lives on a diet probably have a miserable sex life: if your body is the enemy, how can you relax and take pleasure? Everything is about control, rather than relaxing, about holding everything in.”
“But I do think that, when you slow the conveyor belt down, the quality control tends to go up. You have a lot more time between seasons to talk about what worked and what didn't work, and plan for the future. And the pacing of the storytelling, particularly for on-going serialized dramas, means that you don't need to do non-essential episodes, just because you have to fill this pre-existing schedule.”
“But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency should be taught to every young man and woman as a fundamental skill, should become as vital to growing up as learning to wipe one’s own ass, cross the street by oneself, or be trusted with money.”
Source: Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw
“But I dog sit for those people. Once they notice he’s gone, they will ask me if I’ve seen him.”
“So what?”
“I pride myself in being an honest man. That’s what!”
Source: Wanted: An Honest Man
“But I don’t get to fit. Not anywhere.”
Source: Dreadnought
“But I don't have a choice. Every transaction is another pile of dirt on my unmarked grave, burying me alive. And the only person who can dig me out is the same man who's got the shovel.”
Source: Crossed
“But I don't have a map for whatever world lies beyond death. I don't know whether there, too, there are meetings and partings, whether we still have faces and voices, hearts with the capacity for joy as well as sorrow. How could I tell whether your father's loosening grip on life was something I ought to pity, or to envy?”
Source: Human Acts
“But I don't know his hobbies, or the kind of house he lives in, the food he likes, or any books or movies that he may have enjoyed. In other words, we're friends, but really, we're not.
(p. 119, Trevor Benson)”
Source: The Return
“But I don’t know if I love him. I just hate him less
than everyone else...”
Source: Softie: Stories