B Quotes
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“But I should like to take these things on full gallop, instead of dawdling along gaping at them. I get fearfully tired, and a very little Abbey goes a long way with me.”
Source: Letters of Susan Hale
“But I should never write what had happened down. One's nature is to forget, and one ought to go by that. Memory is quite unbearable enough, but even so it leaves out quite a lot.”
Source: The Death Of The Heart
“But I should not have to explain to you how important it is for science and simplicity to coexist. One must not fear to be a little child again, when times of wonder are at hand.”
“But I should tell you honestly that this administration under President Obama is doing in regard to our security more than anything that I can remember in the past.”
“But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.”
Source: The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The private years, 1884-1914
“But I smiled, and smiling was easy, no matter how strange and disorienting the street seemed to be. I was a fugitive. I was a wanted man, a hunted man, with a price on my head. And I was still one step ahead of them. I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.”
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“But I so want to walk that razor's edge, Take feeling to a whole new level.”
“But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.”
“But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.”
“But I started it when I was going through a transitional time in my life. At the end of it, it really sort of symbolized it. I had made room to change, and room to grow. I recorded it in a little room.”
“But I stayed up thinking about how I've been lying to him, no less than I lie to myself in my pre-sleep ritual. And I lied to him again just as we were growing more intimate than ever and he asked me about my scar.”
Source: Anissa's Redemption
“But I still always felt the absence of a mother.”
“But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.”
“But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming; and that she would not cry out for reality, rather would feed reality to her dreams, a demon elf feeding her spinning wheel with the reeds of the world so she might make her own weblike universe.”
Source: Interview with the Vampire
“But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.”
“But I still don't get why you let me go into that life if you knew Volts was going to be dead anyway? You could have told me. You could have just told me I wasn't a bad cat owner. Why didn't you?'
'Because, Nora, sometimes they only way to learn is to live.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“But I still don’t know how to fix myself.”
“There’s nothing broken to be fixed,” he said fiercely.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“But I still don't know what kind of monster was this god, until I saw that Jesus deliberately hid his light under a bushel. "Tell no one" was often his command.”
“But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'”
“But I still feel like a normal person... I've walked the streets and I know what it feels like. I speak with humility, and apparently those songs connect with people.”
“But I still feel like I lost.
We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime. It's easy. The first girl I ever loved was someone I knew in the sixth grade. Her name was Missy; we talked about horses. The last girl I love will be someone I haven't even met yet. probably. They all count. But there are certain people you love who do something else; they define how you classify what love is supposed to feel like. These are the most important people in your life, and you'll meet maybe four or five of these people over the span of 80 years. But there's still one more tier to all this; there is always one person you love who becomes that definition. It usually happens retrospectively, but it always happens eventually. This is the person who unknowingly sets the template for what you will always love about other people, even if some of those lovable qualities are self-destructive and unreasonable. You will remember having conversations with this person that never actually happened. You will recall sexual trysts with this person that never technically occurred. This is because the individual who embodies your personal definition of love does not really exist. The person is real, and the feelings are real-but you create the context. And context is everything. The person who defines your understanding of love is not inherently different than anyone else, and they're often just the person you happen to meet first time you really, really want to love someone. But that person still wins. They win, and you lose. Because for the rest of your life, they will control how you feel about everyone else.”
Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“But I still had to tell myself, Keep looking up. I will tell you, he isnt Superman for nothing.”
“But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that I felt we'd all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soul mate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine.”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“But I still have him in the form of the finest and highest standard of what it means to be a journalist and critic. All my life, Roger Ebert has always been the bar I've tried to reach. I never will. But his example has made me stronger through failure.”
“But I still have no idea what I want to do with my life.
I never wanted to be a lawyer, a stockbroker, or a CEO.
All I ever wanted was to love waking up. To be counted on to make someone’s life better.
And I want a man who breathes me. Who craves me and needs me.”
Source: Five Brothers
“But I still have questions..."
Petra rolls her eyes. "We all have questions, girl. Doesn't mean we deserve the answers.”
Source: Traitor Witch
“But I still have to practice hard if I'm going to play my best tennis.”
“But I still rap like I'm on my Pharoahe Monch grind.”
“But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me, 'Major Barbara' is the greatest of all the plays in that it starts from the rational and proceeds to the ecstatic in a spectacular way, and leaves you very confused if you cling to Euclidean logic.”
“But I still serve pretty big and that's one of my biggest weapons, so if my shoulder holds up and I can count on it, I can win a few matches and then you never know how the other guys are going to react to the fatigue and the length of the matches.”
“But I still show up for gentleman practice in the company of lead dancers, hoping their grace will get stuck in my shoes.”
Source: Gentleman Practice
“But I still state unhesitatingly, that for pure, vacillating stupidity, for superb incompetence to command, for ignorance combined with bad judgment --in short, for the true talent for catastrophe -- Elphy Bey stood alone. Others abide our question, but Elphy outshines them all as the greatest military idiot of our own or any other day.
Only he could have permitted the First Afghan War and let it develop to such ruinous defeat. It was not easy: he started with a good army, a secure position, some excellent officers, a disorganized enemy, and repeated opportunities to save the situation. But Elphy, with the touch of true genius, swept aside these obstacles with unerring precision, and out of order wrought complete chaos. We shall not, with luck, look upon his like again.”
Source: Flashman
“But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.”
“But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate. I wonder, for it is hard for me to conceive how men who knew the word "I," could give it up and not know what they lost. But such has been the story, for I have lived in the City of the damned, and I know what horror men permitted to be brought upon them.”
Source: Study Guide: Anthem (Study Gudie and Book)
“But I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone, or that's an evil one, because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.”
Source: The Amber Spyglass
“But I stopped showing them my emotions—I stopped feeling when I was around them—because having emotions meant you had weaknesses. Having weaknesses meant that people could find ways to hurt you. So, when I start to feel too much, I shut down. It’s the only thing I know.”
Source: You Were Always There
“But I stuttered as a kid. I went to classes to help it, and it just went away around fourth grade, when I became more aware of how others spoke, I think. But also, growing up in the South, a mumble is a way of speaking.”
“But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.”
“But I suppose if you're friends of Magnus's ..." He went completely still. His runes faded. Then he leaped out of my hand and flew towards Annabeth, his blade twitching as if he was stiffing the air. "Where is she? Where are you hiding the babe?"
Annabeth backed towards the rail. "Whoa, there, sword. Personal space?"
"Jack, behave," Alex said. "What are you doing?"
"She's around here somewhere," Jack insisted. He flew to Percy. "Aha! What's in your pocket, sea boy?"
"Excuse me?" Percy looked a bit nervous about the magical sword hovering at his waistline.
Alex lowered his Ray-Bans. "Okay, now I'm curious. What do you have in your pocket, Percy? Enquiring swords want to know."
Percy pulled a plain-looking ballpoint pen from his jeans. "You mean this?"
"BAM!" Jack said. "Who is this vision of loveliness?"
"Jack," I said. "It's a pen."
"No, it's not! Show me! Show me!"
"Uh ... sure." Percy uncapped the pen.
Immediately it transformed into a three-foot-long sword with a leaf-shaped blade of glowing bronze.. Compared to Jack, the weapon looked delicate, almost petite, but from the way Percy wielded it I had no doubt he'd be able to hold his own on the battlefields of Valhalla with that thing.
Jack turned his point towards me, his runes flashing burgundy. "See Magnus? I told you it wasn't stupid to carry a sword disguised as a pen!"
"Jack, I never said that!" I protested. "You did.”
Source: The Ship of the Dead
“But I suppose love doesn't stop, even in wars. There's only so much time a day that you can spend being terrified of something before your instinct to feel natural human emotions would kick in.”
Source: Girl in the Blue Coat
“But I suppose the difference is, you hadn't felt any limitations or frustrations before that, whereas I was already angry by twenty.”
Source: Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
“But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.”
Source: Marx in Soho: A Play on History
“But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.”
Source: A Little Princess
“But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.”
Source: The phantom tollbooth
“But I suppose you have found out your mistake, my dear,[...] and that is a proof of sanity.’
‘No,[...] I still think that the greater part of the world is mistaken about many things. Surely one may be sane and yet think so, since the greater part of the world has often had to come runs from its opinion.”
Source: Middlemarch
“But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“But I supposed love doesn't stop, even in wars.”
“But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of a working week.”
“But I suspect the reported number of good novels this year is a result of 9/11 and all the other alarums of recent years. I think it set a certain gear into movement, unseen, silent, at the heart of many writers. Writers with children, writers with that hope of a peaceful century; a sort of literary battle stations. I was not surprised to hear Ali Smith describe her wonderful book The Accidental as a war book.
Sebastian Barry, in interview with TMO (2005)”
“But I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped my cheek, fingers light on my temple.
"And, Sassenach," he whispered, "your face is my heart.”
Source: Dragonfly in Amber