B Quotes
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“But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.”
“But if you travel far enough, one day you will recognize yourself coming down to meet yourself. And you will say - yes.”
Source: Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride : a Psychological Study
“But if you understood, your very existence is a fight to survive,
for gravity would keep you bent in atrophy;
you would surely rejoice that you can
over-stand in this world.
Every minute that you stand alive, it is a will to thrive.”
“But, if you've decided to go out on a limb and kill one, for goodness' sake, be prepared. We all read, with dismay, the sad story of a good woman wronged in south Mississippi who took that option and made a complete mess of the entire thing. See, first she shot him. Well, she saw right off the bat that that was a mistake because then she had this enormous dead body to deal with. He was every bit as much trouble to her dead as he ever had been alive, and was getting more so all the time. So then, she made another snap decision to cut him up in pieces and dispose of him a hunk at a time. More poor planning. First, she didn't have the proper carving utensils on hand and hacking him up proved to be just a major chore, plus it made just this colossal mess on her off-white shag living room carpet. It's getting to be like the Cat in the Hat now, only Thing Two ain't showing up to help with the clean-up. She finally gets him into portable-size portions, and wouldn't you know it? Cheap trash bags. Can anything else possible go wrong for this poor woman? So, the lesson here is obvious--for want of a small chain saw, a roll of Visqueen and some genuine Hefty bags, she is in Parchman Penitentiary today instead of New Orleans, where she'd planned to go with her new boyfriend. Preparation is everything.”
Source: The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love: A Fallen Southern Belle's Look at Love, Life, Men, Marriage, and Being Prepared
“But if you've got a bagful of stories it means you've led a rich life, and I'm way behind on that count.”
Source: Why Are You Doing This?
“But if you've got a cheerful, friendly demeanor, people act like you don't know better, like you've never heard of poverty or a broken bone. Optimists never get credit for the effort it takes to keep believing things are going to be okay. Here's a secret: most optimists know the world is full of horrors. They just think it can be improved.”
Source: Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results
“But if you want me to knock Kingdom Come, all I will say is that I heard the guitarist said he'd never heard my playing, and I'd defy any guitarist in American not to have heard Led Zeppelin.”
“But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.”
“But if you want to be a true professional, you will do something outside yourself, something to repair tears in your community, something to make life a little better for people less fortunate than you.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg”
“But if you want to change the world, don't be afraid of the circuses.”
“But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.”
“But if you want to find peace, you must first be able to hope it is possible.”
Source: Gregor the Overlander Collection:
“But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.”
“But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.”
“But if you want to know who the scariest person in the group is, look for the one who’s been fighting zombies without smearing her eyeliner.”
Source: Feedback
“But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight.”
“But if you were Charlotte, and you had been feeling that life was some cosmic joke that had no punchline, and in the space of a moment you had gone from being Charlotte-without-a-kitten to being Charlotte-with-a-kitten, you too would have found it nothing short of remarkable.”
Source: The Shadow Thieves
“But if you were matched," I say softly, "What d you think she'd be like?"
"You," He says, almost before I've finished. "You.”
Source: Matched
“But if you were Matched," I say softly, "what do you think she'd be life?" "You," he says, almost before I've finished. "You." We do not kiss. We do nothing bu hold on and breather, but still I know. I cannot go gently now.”
“But if you were matched," I say softly, "What do you think she'd be like?"
"You," he says, almost before I've finished.
"You,”
Source: Matched
“But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious!”
“But if you wish, you can imagine that the Shadow does wait for your return and that it does remember everything that has gone before and that it doesn’t let you accept yourself as perfect until you let it. There is truth in that. That is why a child usually cries as soon as it’s born. With its first breath, the Shadow returns.”
Source: Remember me
“But if you would only learn to live on lentils, you wouldn't have to flatter Dionysus.”
“But if you write a version of Ragnarok in the twenty-first century, it is haunted by the imagining of a different end of things. We are a species of animal which is bringing about the end of the world we were born into. Not out of evil or malice, or not mainly, but because of a lopsided mixture of extraordinary cleverness, extraordinary greed, extraordinary proliferation of our own kind, and a biologically built-in short-sightedness.”
Source: Ragnarok
“But if you'd only ever lived in small wooden house in the middle of wilderness, it sounded much better. Especially because it provided intense community, and these people lived in incredible isolation.”
“But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton
“But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.”
“But if you're coming off ACL surgery, you don't need to be having a press conference at OTAs. Every week? Really? It becomes a circus, a sideshow. It takes away from the focus of what those sessions are supposed to be about: the team.”
“But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.”
“But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger.”
“But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .”
“But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State.”
“But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.”
“But if you've ever felt love, you'll know how painful it is to suffer for love.”
“But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options. It will be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars - compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things.”
“But if you, as an independent filmmaker or a "serious" filmmaker, think you put more love into your characters than the Russo Brothers do Captain America, or Joss Whedon does the Hulk, or I do a talking raccoon, you are simply mistaken.”
“But if your boyfriend, out of nowhere and with no advance warning whatsoever, dumps you for no apparent reason, is it really about you? Or is it all him?”
Source: Take Me There
“But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.”
“But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.”
Source: Dante
“But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down the street to figure out what would have happened? We avoided - and all economists will tell you that millions of jobs were saved because of the Recovery Act, and we avoided a second Great Depression. That, that is a reality.”
“But if, indeed, there be a nobler life in us than in these strangely moving atoms; if, indeed, there is an eternal difference between the fire which inhabits them, and that which animates us,--it must be shown, by each of us in his appointed place, not merely in the patience, but in the activity of our hope, not merely by our desire, but our labor, for the time when the dust of the generations of men shall be confirmed for foundations of the gates of the city of God.”
Source: The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation
“but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.”
Source: Something Like An Autobiography
“But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way”
Source: Poems from the Literary Gazette
“But ignorance of the law is no excuse. A person is guilty even if he breaks the law unknowingly. I shall be perhaps the first of the defendants to get up on that stand and admit that I am at least partly guilty.”
“But ignoring something doesn't make it less real, y'know. Something isn't fiction just because you choose not to acknowledge it.”
Source: It's a Bird...
“But illusion breaks, and so does our heart.”
Source: Eiliyah
“But Ilúvatar knew that Men, being set amid the turmoils of the powers of the world, would stray often, and would not use their gifts in harmony; and he said: 'These too in their time shall find that all that they do redounds at the end only to the glory of my work.”
Source: The Silmarillion
“But imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“But imagine if we were the only people left. The last men on earth. I’d be the best golfer in the world right now. You’d be the only priest. And Ghost would be the only Sikh. Imagine that. A four-hundred-year religion terminating in a dope-head grease monkey.”
“I thought you liked the bloke.”
“I do. But think about it. All the people that made you feel worthless and small down the years. The bullies and bosses. All gone. It’s exhilarating, if you think about it. Freedom from other people’s expectations. We can finally start living for ourselves.”
Source: Outpost
“But imagine,” said Mars, “being a comet. I want you to imagine a divine force in someone that pushes them through the world, infinitely, in each choice, melting barriers in its own perfect path, out your mouth, out from your hands, across countries, through rooms—”
“—through terror—”
“—past regulations—”
“—past people—”
“—every time—”
“—every day...”
“Their life would go so much further,” continued Mars, “so much—as if absorbing hundreds and hundreds of years of ordinary life experience while still their real age. If death is no secret, why do we hunch? That doesn’t make sense to me. I don’t get the hunching! We retreat even when we always know the most favorable thing to do. If you took every risk, you’d have everything. You’d have all that was all.”
Source: A Happy Ghost