B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.”
“But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden of Eden, everybody just got here. And, except for the Garden of Eden, there were already all these games going on that could make you act crazy, even if you weren't crazy to begin with. Some of the crazymaking games going on today are love and hate, liberalism and conservatism, automobiles and credit cards, golf, and girls' basketball.”
“But I have to say, it was fun doing this Love Letter album because, hey, man, love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person.”
“But I have to say, probably when I'm about 30 I'll be pretty, not settled, but happy with what I've accomplished so far. I'm happy where I am now.”
“But I have to tell you something. It's important."
He froze, teetered on the tiles, his eyes glistening in the morning light. "What?"
"I hacked Guitar Hero. There was no possible way I could have lost."
A smile tugged at the corners of his lips. "I know."
Puzzled, she frowned. "Then why did you keep playing?"
"It made you happy," he said simply. "Same reason I brought you math puzzles, played video games with you when Sanjay wasn't around, tried to guess the after-school snack instead of looking at your meal plan, and offered to take you to the prom when you didn't have a date. I wanted you to be happy, Daisy. I still do.”
Source: The Dating Plan
“But I have to tell you, I get it all day, every day, I'm not sexy enough, or I'm not cool enough, or if I did this I would be accepted. Let me tell you one thing: the sexiest thing is class. I promise you that each and every one of you is made to be who you are. That is what's so attractive and beautiful. Please don't forget that, even when it gets hard.”
“But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth.”
Source: Code Name Verity
“But I haven't met a player or a coach whose goal isn't to win the Super Bowl.”
“But I hear neither an act nor price in your little paean to my sexiness."
"'Paean?' You want me to just cum on the spot, don't you, you poetic little slut.”
Source: The Temptation of Eden
“But I held back. I didn't want to horrify them. I was learning that there were silences now, unbridgeable spaces between myself and those around me.”
Source: After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search
“But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.”
“But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas that have lasted thousands of years, or just since the most recent Harry Potter. I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope that I spend my last days on this Earth arranging and rearranging them on thrones of good, honest pine, oak, and mahogany, because they just feel good in my hands, because I just like to look at their covers, and dream of the promose of the great stories inside.”
Source: My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South
“But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas have lasted thousands of years . . . I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope that I spend my last days on this Earth arranging and rearranging them on thrones of good, honest pine, oak, and mahogany, because I just like to look at their covers, and dream of the promise of the great stories inside.”
“But I hope that by the decision and authority of wise princes that sometime devout and learned men from the churches of other nations and of ours may be summoned together to deliberate about all the controversies and that there be handed down to posterity one harmonious, true, and clear form of doctrine, without any ambiguity. Meanwhile, as far as possible, let us encourage the union of our churches with measured advice.”
“But I hope that it will also be demonstrated soon that in my experiments in the West I was not merely beholding a vision, but had caught sight of a great and profound truth.”
Source: The Nikola Tesla Treasury
“But I hope to maintain my credibility after I stop playing. Because, yes of course, now I play and I score goals and children all over are mad about me. Not just poor children - all children. We can make them really happy by the way we play, though I have to say that it's the poor ones that I think of most, the ones who can't come and watch the games at the stadium. We mean so much to them. That's why I'm so committed to this work. Later, after you've stopped playing, it's harder to have the same impact. But I will give it a go. I want to continue doing this kind of work for ever.”
“But I hope you don’t feel the hurt as much as I did. You are too weak and fragile to stand that ache.
Remember, you always will be.”
Source: Unexpressed Feelings
“But I intend to enjoy the weeks I have left with you to the fullest. Because I know from my study of the philosophy of time, whatever is going to happen in the future is already unavoidable.”
“But I intend to make you respectable.”
“But I it doesn't matter who scores the goals so long as we win.”
“But I just can't do without you, I need you all the time. Darling .. .!'
-Alex”
Source: Lifelong Affair
“But I just don't think it's an abyss of nothingness [after death] and that we fall off and that our journey stops. I think it's circular and we go and we go and we go. I know that there are civilizations that I think are way more sophisticated than we are and I think more sophisticated civilizations lived before us.”
“But I just felt at one point that I was on a hamster wheel, you know? Just doing movie after movie and thinking so much about career related things and I think missing out on hanging with my friends and family as much I needed to.”
“But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.”
“But I just love that music scene so much, and I enjoy really being around those artists and watching them even more than I do performing, because they are a whole group of people that do it because they love music.”
“But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.”
“But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content.”
“But I just smile. Because I know now that none of us know what we want. Not until we know that we live and breathe and have our being in a web of others’ wanting.”
Source: The Sea Once Swallowed Me: A Memoir of Love, Solitude, and the Limits of Language
“But I just think as a captain, everybody's different.”
“But I just think I was lucky enough to figure out early on that I wanted to do comedy, so that's what I put all my effort into.”
“But I just want to be known for my football.”
“But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress - because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while.”
Source: Anne of Green Gables
“But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.”
“But I keep going on with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear it, as I will hear yours too if I ever get the chance, if I meet you or if you escape, in the future or in heaven or in prison or underground, some other place. What they have in common is that they're not here. By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are.”
“But I kept at it with the help-wanted ads. My standards were sliding swiftly. At first I had insisted I would only work at a company with a mission I believed in. Then I thought maybe it would be fine as long as I was learning something new. After that I decided it just couldn't be evil. Now I was carefully delineating my personal definition of evil.”
Source: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel
“But I kept that night. I kept the way she looked at me afterward, the way her thumb traced circles on mine, the way she said “You were here. That’s what matters.”
Source: Comings and Goings - The Art of Being Seen : A Jim Garraty Story
“But I killed a man just like my mother did. David says it’s okay because I didn’t mean to, and because he was about to kill that little kid. But I’m pretty sure my mom didn’t mean to kill my dad, either, so what difference does that make, meaning or not meaning to do something? Accident or on purpose, the result is the same, and that’s one fewer life than there should be in the world.”
“But I killed you,” Alyss said. “Did you?” Red turned to The Cat. “Why wasn’t I informed?”
“But I knew - in the old days, if a song was a good song, I don't care if it was 'Yellow Submarine' or, you know, or 'The Times They Are a-Changin' or 'Don't Be Cruel', you knew it, you know? You heard that song, and you were talking about it, and you knew it.”
“But I knew, deep down, that love had never fixed anyone. It had only given them the strength to try over, and over, and over again.”
“But I knew even then that I did not want my sons to act for me in the world, any more than I wished for them to kill or die for their country. I wanted to act, to live, in myself and to love them for their separate selves.”
“But I knew. He was punishing me. Just like his wife, I'd failed to be the woman he needed me to be to make his life meaningful. (Page 296)”
Source: Rainbow Black
“But I knew he wouldn't kiss me. Not tonight. Not like this. There was too much between us now, all the words and near misses. All the potential, the alternate futures that would stretch out before us in an unending spiral, all built on what happened in this moment. I held his fiery gaze and remembered the five-oh, the half-and-half, the promises I'd whispered to myself in the dawn light.
I might lose all my memories one day, but that wouldn't keep me from making them.”
Source: The Book of Broken Hearts
“But I knew my hair was healthy and a pretty color, dark brown shot with red in certain lights. I'd always liked my eyes, which were large and framed by naturally long lashes, and if I used to wish they were violet instead of brown, I was mostly over it now. That had been a side effect of reading too many romance novels, I knew, where the heroine's eyes were always sparkling emerald or velvety indigo.”
Source: Love in the Time of Serial Killers
“But I knew Nick. He was too ugly to die.”
“But I knew one more thing. That people w ho denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.”
“But I knew that someday I was going to die. And just before I died two things would happen; Number 1: I would regret my entire life. Number 2: I would want to live my life over again.”
“But I knew that we had really met, she the Catholic from Eastern Europe, I the Protestant from the West. There on the crowded tramway platform we had met as Christians.”
Source: God's Smuggler
“But I knew the first question Mom asked Gail was, Is it a boy or a girl? Because, for some reason, that is the first thing everybody wants to know the minute you're born. Should we label it with pink or blue? Wouldn't want anyone to mistake the gender of an infant! What is that so important?”
Source: Parrotfish
“But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close