B Quotes
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“But I tell people all the time that if you can do the job, then there's a spot for you. I refuse to believe that there isn't any room in this business. People leave jobs and jobs open up every year. If you can do the job, you'll find your way into the broadcast booth.”
“But I tell you - and mark my words - you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life's stream will be broken up into whirl and tumult, foam and noise: either you will be dashed to atoms on crag points, or lifted up and borne on by some master-wave into a calmer current.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“But I tell you one thing, I don't want to be immortal if it mean living forever, cause then everybody else just die and get old in front of you while you stay the same, and that's just sad.”
Source: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
“But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.”
“But I tended not to date men who ever showed up for me.”
Source: Loved
“But I think a life of raising prize cattle, going shooting two or three times a year, fishing in the summer, and interspersing the whole thing with some golf and bridge - and whenever I felt like talking or writing, doing it with abandon and with no sense of responsibility whatsoever - maybe such a life wouldn't be so bad.”
“But I think a song that is really emotionally packed, with a great melody that just will soar, that's the keeper.”
“But I think also you look at Scientology it is the fastest growing religion. It's helped so many people.”
“But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.”
“But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film.”
“But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.”
“But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.”
“But I think Cybil was my biggest fan. She cut out my articles and hung them in her locker and we were always cracking up how if you wrote the simplest, most obvious thing in the world people thought you were a genius.”
Source: Girl
“But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest.”
“But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.”
“But I think for me, why I was drawn to the piece is, at the core of the story, it's a love story to me - between Ed and Lorraine, between these two families who are asking for help and us who are in the business of giving help.”
“But I think frustration is hilarious. One of my missions is to bring humor into fine art. It's sacred.”
“But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.”
“But I think girls ought to show when they disapprove of young men, and how can they do it except by their manners? Preaching does not do any good, as I know to my sorrow, since I’ve had Teddy to manage; but there are many little ways in which I can influence him without a word, and I say we ought to do it to others if we can.”
Source: Little Women
“But I think half the battle is figuring out what works for you, and I am much better at being a mother than I ever would have been as a lawyer. I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere." - My Sister's Keeper”
Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel
“But I think Hillary Clinton is one of the most amazing women of this time.”
“But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy.”
“But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.”
“But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.”
Source: Black Elk Speaks: The Complete Edition
“But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.”
“but i think i’m daydreaming too detailed at the moment
what’s better is for me to think in the present
&give you 100 francs of halwa
when my bus casually halts where you are polishing your motorbike
i want you to remember me
no matter how much you try to forget”
Source: The Breast Mountains Of All Time
“But I think I see what these guys' problem is. You know... aside from the lack of a spine and the latent misogyny? As long as they continue to act like women are a separate species and, thus, not relate to us as HUMAN BEINGS, they'll continue to alienate the majority of us on sight or send those unfortunate souls who actually date them (Bleh!) screaming into the night.”
“But I think I understand now what Shackleton said yesterday, how hero is not always doing something grand. It's when things get so bad, and you keep on anyway.”
Source: Shackleton's Stowaway
“But I think I want to become part of Scotland when I die. In a coffin, you just turn to dust, so I would prefer to be buried in a wicker casket, or in a sheet like the Africans do, so that I actually become part of the earth. I would like a tree to be planted on top of me.
And I told my wife Pamela a long time ago the epitaph that I want on my gravestone: Jesus Christ, is that the time already?
Failing that, I would like an epitaph in writing so tiny that visitors would have to inch right next to my gravestone to read it. It would say: You're standing on my balls.”
Source: Coming Home: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country
“But I think I'm on track to do something even bigger. I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.”
“But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.”
Source: Birdsong
“But I think if it's the right person, you wouldn't have to work so hard at intimacy. I think—hope—it would just happen naturally. Otherwise, opening up to the wrong person..." I made a face. "Like putting ammo in their hands.”
Source: Sugar Daddy: A Novel
“But I think if you treat people well, they embrace you. The other stuff, it just doesn't matter.”
“But I think if your dreams are small they can get lost, like trying to find a needle in a haystack...When a dream is big, you can see it better and hold on to it." -Ruthie”
Source: Lucky Broken Girl
“But I think it has to do with what you believe about yourself. If you believe you're damned, then you are. But if you don't...”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.”
“But I think it is also important that we pay tribute and acknowledge another great principle, and that is the principle of religious conviction. Religious freedom has no significance unless it is accompanied by conviction.”
“But I think it is also the relief I feel that those stars are immovable. Nothing you or I could do will ever alter them. They are so much bigger than us. And they will not change within our lifetime. We can succeed or fail, get it right or get it wrong, love and lose the ones we love, and still the Summer Triangle will point south. And in that way, I know everything will be some type of okay—as impossible as that can seem sometimes.”
Source: Atmosphere
“But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.”
“But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.”
Source: George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss
“But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities”
“But i think it would drive me more crazy to just go do a movie that I didn't believe in, you know?”
“But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.”
“But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.”
“But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.”
“But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups.”
“But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.”
“But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.”
Source: Jane Campion: Interviews
“But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper.”
“But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.”