B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.”
“but I guess I’ve been avoiding her. I haven’t had “the energy to be ‘on’ and cheerful; nor do I want to dissolve into sobs. I guess this is how people slowly turn into recluses.”
Source: The Burnout
“But I guess it looked how some little part of me wanted things to look. Even if it was just for a second. Like some TV version of high school.”
Source: Foolish Hearts
“But I guess that's the cruel reality of change, how quickly it can wrap its fingers around your life and snatch away everything safe and familiar.”
Source: Sweet Tea & Snap Peas
“But I guess that’s the thing about the past. You can’t change it. You can’t fix it. You can only understand it. And if you’re lucky, make sure you don’t make those mistakes again.”
Source: Court
“But I guess the nice thing about driving a car is that the physical act of driving itself occupies a good chunk of brain cells that otherwise would be giving you trouble overloading your thinking. New scenery continually erases what came before; memory is lost, shuffled, relabeled and forgotten. Gum is chewed; buttons are pushed; windows are lowered and opened. A fast moving car is the only place where you're legally allowed to not deal with your problems. It's enforced meditation and this is good.”
Source: Life After God
“But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.”
Source: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
“But I guess you have to get cracked wide open and exposed raw to become your best self. Nothing is transformed that is not discovered or exposed. And we are all constant imperfection in a state of evolution until we leave this place. It seems important to acknowledge that none of us, not even the greatest gurus of our time, are completely transformed. It's a great unraveling across a lifetime that is only accessed by the cracks in our ever-present false selves.”
“But I guess you would look beatific, too, if the man you had been in love with since the fifth grade had told you that he was in love with you, too.”
Source: Teen Idol
“But I guessed she would never stop wanting more for me, more from me. Maybe that's what mothers did.”
Source: The Selection Series 4-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir
“But I had a dream that was heavier than my challenges.
So I continued with my journey,
following the stream of the river.
Hoping to reach the ocean; the calm seas.”
“But I had a feeling I wasn't supposed to find her that way. She was not a needle. This was not a haystack. We were people, and people had ways of finding each other.”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“But I had a new mantra, louder and stronger, that blew all those out of the water. F#ck it.”
Source: My Winter Family
“But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.”
“but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.”
Source: Five Moral Pieces
“But I had been a stranger to myself turned to stone for no reason I could name.”
Source: Circe
“But I had been in love pretty often and I didn't think it stood the wear and tear.”
“But I had come to where I had never been before, the blessed point of sufficient desperation.”
Source: The Sea, The Sea
“But I had loved him. A part of me still did. Maybe more than a part of me, because I'm a complete moron.”
“But I had never caused my parents "a minute's worry." Didn't they know that worry proves you care? Didn't they realize that I needed their worry to assure myself that I was worth something?”
Source: Jacob Have I Loved
“But I had never drawn on a tablet before. I've been doing pencil and paper and film for almost 20 years. I wanted to try something different. I wanted to teach myself some digital stuff in advance of a bigger feature project that's coming up, and I took to it really quickly.”
“But I had never had a self I was much interested in keeping . . .”
Source: Topics of Conversation
“But I had no doubt that whatever happened, I’d be fine.”
Source: Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness
“But I had no idea what I looked like. Children may feel epic and large to theyselves and yet be only scraps to view.”
Source: Days Without End
“But I had no plans to end my own life, and accidents couldn't be predicted. Neither could murder, unless my aunt and uncle were planning to take me out themselves.”
Source: My Soul to Take
“But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.”
Source: Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose
“But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?”
Source: True Grit: A Novel
“But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.”
“But I had To Become
The Greatest Teacher
of All Teachers :
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
Amen”
“But I had to kill you, because the only other possible ending was us doing it, which I wasn't really emotionally ready to write about at ten.' 'Fair enough,' I say. 'But in the revision, I want to get some action.”
Source: Paper Towns
“But I had to think to myself that this was normal, because that was the attitude. I was 19 when I went to see my doctor and I was told it was all in the mind.”
“But I had two towels next to my toilet: one to wipe away the vomit, and one to wipe away the tears. I was dying, but I couldn’t tell anyone about it.”
Source: Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
“But I hadn’t barfed. Not once. Even mixing all that stuff. Almost always, ever since I was a little kid, when I’d get really excited, it would cause barfage. Not this time. Maybe I was growing up. Grown-ups could get excited and not barf. I’d seen them do it. Maybe that was what being grown-up meant. Having lots of exciting things happen and also getting to keep your food.”
Source: Visible Amazement
“But I hadn't known what love was. And I wondered how you could ever be sure, when you thought you loved someone, if you really did.”
Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy
“But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!”
“But I hate being a grandfather. It's indecent. In my mind's eye, I'm still twenty-five. Thirty-three max. Certainly not sixty-seven, reeking of decay and dashed hopes. My breath sour. My limbs in dire need of a lube job. And now that I've been blessed with a plastic hip-socket replacement, I'm no longer even biodegradable. Environmentalists will protest my burial.”
Source: Barney's Version
“But I hate the way our identity has changed. We used to establish the run and wear teams down and try not to make mistakes, and we’d rely on our defense to keep us in the game and make big plays to put us in position to win. Kyle Orton might not be the flashiest quarterback, but the guy is a winner, and that formula worked for us. I hate to say it, but that’s the truth.”
“But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.”
“But I hated the Emperor of the Ke-Han with everything I had in me, for every man I'd lost and every friend who'd died, for every story I'd known was false but had allowed to harden my heart against the enemy anyway.”
Source: Shadow Magic
“But I have a choice, and I choose the light.”
Source: Passage of Time
“But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my
country.”
Source: The Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclair's California
“But I have a gut feeling on this and it’s not the oh-look-it’s-a-bright-shiny-world kind. (Tate)”
“But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't a script, I'll read something from that.”
“But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.”
Source: East of Eden
“But I have a problem with the term 'light'. I never in my life knew what to do with that. I know that people have mentioned on some occasions that 'Richter is all about light', and that 'the paintings have a special light', and I never knew what they were talking about. I was never interested in light. Light is there and you turn it on or you turn it off, with sun or without sun. I don't know what the 'problematic of light' is. I take it as a metaphor for a different quality, which is similarly difficult to describe. Good.”
Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007
“But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.”
“But I have always been ready to serve my country.”
“But I have always believed that a woman's best and biggest champion should be herself. The world sure isn't going to step up and cheer on its own.”
Source: Small Town, Big Magic
“But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.”
“But I have always thought that these tulips must have had names. They were red, and orange and red, and red and orange and yellow, like the ember in a nursery fire of a winter's evening. I remember them.”