B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But I'm the strongest girl in the world, don't forget.”
Source: Pippi Longstocking
“But I’m tired of coming out. All I ever do is come out. I try not to change, but I keep changing, in all these tiny ways. I get a girlfriend. I have a beer. And every freaking time, I have to reintroduce myself to the universe all over again.”
Source: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
“But I'm tired of them just assuming.”
Source: The Hate U Give
“But I’m very glad to have been born, so I don’t know what to say about it all especially since my mom seems happy with her life, and I don’t know what else there is to want.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“But I'm very happy that I met you. And even knowing that you're alive, I feel like my life will be a lot better.”
Source: Intermezzo
“But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage.”
“But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party.”
“But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets.”
“But I maintain that she would come if we worked for her, and that so to work, even in poverty and obscurity, is worth while.”
Source: A Room of One’s Own
“But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.”
“But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians who got to be pope and which is of very little use to anybody.”
“But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.”
“But I married a guy who treated me very badly, but I was happy. I was miserable, so I was happy.”
“But I marry myself. I take my fate as within.”
“But I marvel when I observe these men setting themselves up as instructors of youth who cannot see that they are applying the analogy of an art with hard and fast rules to a creative process”
Source: Isocrates
“But I may be one who does not care
Ever to have tree bloom or bear.”
Source: A Further Range
“But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were.”
“But I mean, even my family gets spoiled at times watching me doing things that I do, on and off the court.”
“But I miss screamin' and fightin'
And kissin' in the rain
And it's two a.m. and I'm cursin' your name
You're so in love that you act insane
And that's the way I loved you.”
“But I miss the woman I was, even as I learn to accept the new creature I’ve become.”
“But I miss whom I once could touch, as all must do when we make our way through whatever forest or wood it is in which we travel or are raised. This does not mean the man is lost or has disappeared forever. For although he no longer walks beside you, he still remains in the time and place of memory and this is where he will appear again and again, as often as you will seek him. Not only in those places where he has always been but where he could not be then yet will be now.”
Source: The Bear
“But I missed the girl who had shown the stag mercy, who had been strong enough to turn away from the lure of power, who had believed in something more. Another casualty of this war.”
Source: Ruin and Rising
“But I mourned just as much when I lost my best friend. Am I allowed that? It's still the same pain of losing someone you loved with all your heart. Isn't is?”
Source: You're Invited
“But I must add that the U.S. government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. When an individual, in a church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest, he must be checked; but let the churches, as such take care of themselves. It will not do for the U.S. to appoint Trustees, Supervisors, or other agents for the churches.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46
“But I must admit.' he added with a queer laugh, 'that I hoped you would take me for my own sake. A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship. But there, I believe my looks are against me.”
“But I must admit I didn´t like that idea; do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat - that had been the nightmare of my adolescence. If it meant going back to that, if would be just as well to turn on the gas at once. But I suppose everyone thinks of things like that: let´s turn on the gas at once. And you don´t turn it on.”
“But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.”
“But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.”
“But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very difficult to form a clear idea of their nature, especially when compounded bodies are under consideration.”
“But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.”
Source: Nausea
“But I must go on," said the Lady Amalthea, "for it is never finished. Even when I wake, I cannot tell what is real, and what I am dreaming as I move and speak and eat my dinner. I remember what cannot have happened, and forget something that is happening to me know. People look at me as though I should know them, and I do know them in the dream, and always the fire draws me nearer, though I am awake—”
“But i must have a husband, darling. All women must have a husband.”
“But I must never forget how blessed I have been. God has given me gifts and happiness, beyond any of my simple desires. My deepest desire now is to simply live... So with hope and determination, I'd hold on and go on.”
“But I must never love again.”
Source: The Princess Bride
“But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.”
Source: The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays
“But I must say,” Jayden smiled wistfully, “when I was a child, I had a giant stuffed whale which I slept with every night. Very soft and squishy, and Aurora, instituting the connection of our bodies last night, which I believe constitutes the term snuggling, provided the same comforting sensation as slumbering with the whale. Most enjoyable. I forgot how much I missed it.”
"Giant whale.” Luna snorted a laugh. “He just called you fat.”
“But snuggly,” I said. “Jayden, what are you doing here?”
Source: Demons in Disguise
“But I must say the work I'm proudest of is the Green Cross Code man.”
“But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.”
Source: The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
“But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears, to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I firmly believe.”
Source: The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784
“But I must think, he thought. Because it is all I have left. That and baseball.”
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
“But I must warn you, Miss Hathaway ... life has a way of fouling up our plans. I speak from experience.”
Source: Mine Till Midnight
“But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt and duty towards it, because I have walked on the earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures, not made to please a certain tendency in art, but to express a sincere human feeling. So this work is the aim-and through concentration upon that one idea, everything one does is simplified. Now the work goes slowly-a reason the more to lose no time.”
“But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.”
Source: On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
“But I need to reassure the others first. They’ll be all out of sorts.” “Reassure them of what?” “Oh, you know,” she said. “Everything’s perfectly all right, that sort of thing.” “And is it?” Charley asked. “Of course not,” she snorted. “If it were, they wouldn’t need me to tell them.”
Source: The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
“But I need to wake up somehow. Or maybe not. Maybe it’s best to get through the day half-asleep. Maybe that’s the only way to get through today.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.”
“But I never again went through this street. There would be other men coming in this man's place and, ignorant of the incident, they would behave likewise. Why should I unnecessarily court another kick? I therefore selected a different walk.”
Source: My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography
“But I never cleaned thoroughly enough, my reorganization proved to be haphazard, the disgraces came unfailingly to light, and it was clear how we failed, how disastrously we fell short of that ideal of order and cleanliness, household decency which I as much as anybody else believed in.”
“But I never gave up personal things to work, never.”
“But I never just quite liked that ryhme.'
'Why not, child?'
'Because it seems to say one's as good as another, or two new ones are better than one that's lost. . . . Somehow, when once you've looked into anybody's eyes, right deep down into them, I mean, nobody will do for that one any more. Nobody, ever so beautiful or so good, will make up for that one going out of sight.”
Source: At the Back of the North Wind