B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.”
“But I was awake, sitting by the window looking down at the trailer and Mr. Zoltan's truck. I could not sleep. That is how it is with folks my age. We take naps during the day, and then we cannot sleep at night. I think that it is because God is getting us ready for the grave. Is that right? Did He ever tell you? ("The Little Stranger")”
Source: American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now
“But I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.
Of course, you pretend to be the author. You have to. You think, I now choose to go to lunch, when that monotone beep rings from on high at 12:37. But really, the bell decides. You think you're the painter, but you're the canvas.”
Source: Turtles All the Way Down
“But I was beginning to realize that sometimes a person doesn't get to choose whether she joins or fights. Sometimes the joining is impossible, sometimes the fight chooses you. The universe plucks you -- you, specifically -- out of all those souls out there and hands you something that makes fitting in and going with the flow utterly out of the question.”
Source: Positive
“But I was coming to learn that much of your perception of a relationship is shaped by everything else that happens to be going on in your life at the time. When I first met Ed Farley, I had been starved for love. He was the first man I'd ever known to show me kindness. Hr had taken my loneliness away. And for that I knew I would always be grateful. But being grateful was not enough of a reason to stay with someone.”
“But I was done trying to wake her up, to make her see. To save her. The only person I could save was myself.”
Source: Dear Rockstar
“But I was even more surprised when he stuck around with me and smiled a full, toothy, letter-D-shaped movie star grin.
The magazines said he was only twenty-eight, which was young for an executive chef but felt old to me. He looked like a man. Even when Elliott turned twenty-eight, I doubted he would look as manly as Pascal. Somehow, in the supermarket lighting, Pascal seemed hotter- more capable and more real. In restaurants, he blended in with the scenery of the meal. But here, holding his basket just like everyone else, looking at the discounted produce, getting lost in the aisles, his presence became even more magical, as if I were seeing a beautiful, powerful animal in the wild instead of at the zoo.”
Source: Food Whore
“But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“But I was fuelled by the power of confusion and panic, which, like I said is always ready and waiting to get to work.”
Source: Let It Snow
“But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.”
“But I was going to learn the hardest lesson in life: that those who
are closest to you, always betray you first.”
Source: Tale of Lucia Grandi
“But I was happy for other things too: that I’d be doing something I’d never done before, that my days would be spent in a world that was so different to me that I could feel a sheen of anticipation on my skin. Already, I didn’t want the summer to end.”
Source: Mary Jane
“But i was high, when i finally had the chance to see, everything thats pretty aint’ always good for me.”
“But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable”
“But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.”
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“But I was in the Radiohead studio today and Phil was there drumming and Thom was there playing. We feel like we've only just stopped and already people are wanting us to carry on.”
“But I was in this bowling league with a good number of friends who came from across the line. We got the phone call that the border had been closed, and that absolutely nobody was being allowed to cross--not parents, not children, not anybody. Who knew what disguise the assassin had used.”
Source: Capirotada: A Nogales Memoir
“But I was learning forgiveness didn’t have to be about granting absolution for sins but being able to find freedom from pain.”
Source: Falling for Autumn
“But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter”
“But I was lost in hopeless hope.”
Source: Drive: An Old Castle Novel
“But I was lost without Katie. For fourteen years, she had been the capital letter at the beginning of my sentence and the exclamation point at its end.”
“But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo”
“But I was not a mouse. In the fields where I walked, I was much more interested in the actions of the hawks.”
Source: The Marriage of Opposites
“But I was not good enough. You should understand this about me—I am not a hero; not one to tap unknown reserves of courage; not one to rise to circumstance. I am the understudy who chokes on his lines when he is forced onto the stage. I am never, ever good enough.”
Source: The Dream of Perpetual Motion
“But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness”
Source: The John Green Collection
“But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.”
Source: Molloy
“But I was not obeying the first and greatest commandment - to love God first - nor is it clear that I was obeying the second - to love my neighbour. Hating the oppressors of my neighbour isn't perhaps quite what Christ had in mind.”
“But I was old enough to have learned that sometimes lies—very small ones—weren’t wrong. They were important. Sometimes lies were what held a family together.”
Source: A Holly Jolly Diwali
“But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.”
“But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)
“But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.”
“But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.”
“But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.”
Source: The Power of One
“But I was still anxious. Trevor Trevor Trevor. I might have felt better if he were dead, I thought, since behind every memory of him was the possibility of reconciling, and thus more heartbreak and indignity. I felt weak. My nerves were frayed and fragile, like tattered silk. Sleep had not yet solved my crankiness, my impatience, my memory. It seemed like everything was now somehow linked to getting back what I'd lost. I could picture my selfhood, my past, my psyche like a dump truck filled with trash. Sleep was the hydraulic piston that lifted the bed of the truck up, ready to dump everything out somewhere, but Trevor was stuck in the tailgate, blocking the flow of garbage. I was afraid things would be like that forever.”
Source: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“But I was still determined to protect her. It might be the one good thing I would ever do in my life. I wondered if God would even notice.”
Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead
“But I was stuck for a long time by myself at Abraham Lincoln's portrait, standing in the middle of the huge hall as people moved all around me with mostly children. I felt as if time had stopped as I watched Lincoln, facing him, while watching the woman’s back as she was looking out the window. I felt wronged, so much like Truman from the movie, standing there in the middle of the museum alone. I was wondering what would Abraham Lincoln do if he realized he was the slave in his own cotton fields, being robbed by evil thieves, nazis.
I had taken numerous photos of Martina from behind, as well as silhouettes of her shadow. I remember standing there, watching as she stood in front of the window; it was almost as if she was admiring the view of the mountains from our new home, as I did take such pictures of her, with a very similar composition to that of the female depicted in the iconic Lincoln portrait looking outwards from the window. I hadn't realized how many photographs I snapped of Martina with her back turned towards me while we travelled to picturesque places. Fernanda and I walked side-by-side in utter silence, admiring painting after painting of Dali's, without exchanging a single word. Meanwhile, Luis and Martina had got lost somewhere in the museum. When I finally found her, she was taking pictures outside of the Rainy Cadillac. We both felt something was amiss without having to say it, as Fernanda knew things I didn't and vice versa. We couldn't bring ourselves to discuss it though, not because we lacked any legal authority between me and Martina, but because neither Fernanda or myself had much parental authority over the young lady. It felt like when our marriages and divorces had dissolved, it was almost as if our parenting didn't matter anymore. It was as if I were unwittingly part of a secret screenplay, like Jim Carrey's character in The Truman Show, living in a fabricated reality made solely for him. I was beginning to feel a strange nauseous feeling, as if someone was trying to force something surreal down my throat, as if I were living something not of this world, making me want to vomit onto the painted canvas of the personalised image crafted just for me. I couldn't help but wonder if Fernanda felt the same way, if she was aware of the magnitude of what was happening, or if, just like me, she was completely oblivious, occasionally getting flashes of truth or reality for a moment or two. I took some amazing photographs of her in Port Lligat in Dali's yard in the port, and in Cap Creus, but I'd rather not even try to describe them—they were almost like Dali's paintings which make all sense now. As if all the pieces are coming together. She was walking by the water and I was walking a bit further up on the same beach on pebbles, parallel to each other as we walked away from Dali's house in the port. I looked towards her and there were two boats flipped over on the two sides of my view.
I told her: “Run, Bunny! Run!”
Source: BARCELONA MARIJUANA MAFIA
“But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.”
“But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.”
“But I was thinking about this, the Obamas want to adopt a stray dog from the pound. And I think that is admirable. I believe the last president to bring a stray dog into the White House got impeached.”
“But I was thinking of a way
To feed oneself on batter,
And so go on from day to day
Getting a little fatter.”
Source: Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There
“But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.”
“But I was too young to know how to love her”
Source: The Little Prince
“But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved.”
Source: A Separate Peace
“But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group.”
“But I was very much into sports when I was a child.”
“But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.”
“But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.”
“But I was waiting for some magical moment, that would prove to me, forever would be fine. Meanwhile, my first love was standing first in line.”
“But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.”
“But I was wrong about most things, then as now.”
Source: The Sense of an Ending