B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do.”
“But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“But it feels good to love a thing and not expect anything back. It feels good to not get an argument or any pushiness or any rumors or any bullshit. It's love without strings. It's ideal.”
“But it feels like we are sitting on a tight bench of a bus with a stranger between us, one that neither of us is willing to admit to or mention, and so we find ourselves talking around him and through him and sneaking glances when the other one isn't looking. How am I supposed to think about Anna Fitzgerald when I'm wondering whether Julia has ever woken up in someone's arms and for just a moment, before the sleep cleared from her mind, thought maybe it was me?”
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“But it feels so cold here without her.”
Source: Adelaide
“But it felt like I knew him in the same way that I know people on television. I knew the name. I watched the show.”
“But it goes without saying that Michael Jordan could never date Pamela Anderson. That would cause the apocalypse.”
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
“But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did.”
Source: The Uncoupling: A Novel
“But it had not occurred to him to praise her, because in his view she was just doing her duty as a woman and there was nothing special about that.” (pg.34)”
Source: The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
“But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews.”
“But it has been my experience that the risks are faroutweighed by the rewards, chief of which is when you speak to strangers as though they are friends, more often than not, if only for as long as the encounter lasts, they become friends, and if in the process they also think of you as a little peculiar, who cares?”
Source: A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory
“But it has finally hit me: she is neither a concept nor a symbol nor a metaphor. She actually exists: she has warm flesh and a spirit that moves. I never should have lost sight of that warmth and that movement. It took me twenty years to understand something so obvious. It may already be too late. But one way or another, I want to find her.”
Source: 1Q84
“But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.”
Source: Name of the Rose
“But it hurt, to realize what triumph can do to a man.”
Source: A Play of the Cosmos: Script of the Stars
“But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.”
“But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.”
“But it is a fact that within Jewry there exists a sect which engaged in these murders.”
“But it is a fallacy, if one is examining the methods by which security can be attained, to start upon the assumption, as so many hon. Members do, that we get security by an increase of air armaments or an increase of any other form of armaments.”
“But it is a great comfort to think of you when I'm not well – I wonder why. Still nicer – better to see you. So I hope for Tuesday.”
“But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.”
“But it is a long time since I believed love solved everything.”
Source: Still Me
“But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in the most humorous sadness.”
Source: As You Like it
“But it is a miracle that a dead man should come to life; because that has never been observed in any age or country.”
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“But it is a myth to assume that the larger amount of early stimulation you provide, the more beneficial it will be. The truth is that babies can be overstimulated--which is what many parents, intent on beginning to groom their progeny for college in the cradle, end up doing.”
“But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.”
“But it is a pleasure, isn't it, on a crisp September night in Dublin to walk with long free strides along a quiet street. In the prime of his life. Incumbent on him now to enjoy such fleeting pleasures. Next minute might die. Happens every day to someone.”
Source: Intermezzo
“But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!”
“But it is a worry that there have been so many delays in the reform of China's state-owned enterprises. We all know that private companies are run more efficiently than state ones. These reforms are very much anticipated for the potential dynamism they could create.”
“But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.”
Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
“But it is almost impossible to communicate with them [one's spies in the enemy camp] and receive the information they possess ... Even when the general receives from his spies information of movements, he still knows nothing of those which may since have taken place, nor of what the enemy is going finally to attempt.”
“But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.”
“But it is also true that sometimes I have had to watch helplessly as the courts could not be persuaded to do what seemed clearly within their power...”
Source: Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences
“but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.”
“But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely 1 in 100,000, and paint barely 1 in 100 of those that I photograph. I am therefore seeking something quite specific; from this I conclude that I know what I want.”
“But it is as silly to think about peer-to-peer as applying just to music as it would have been to think about the Internet as applying just to pornography. Whatever the initial use of the technology, it has nothing to do with the potential of the architecture to serve many other extremely important functions.”
“But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen.
[Fr., Car c'est en famille, ce n'est pas en public, qu'un lave son linge sale.]”
“But it is Bella, not the supernaturals she falls in with, who is the true horror show here, at least as a female role model.”
“But it is certainly not possible to insist on one hand that the formalism is complete and to insist on the other hand that its application to 'the actual' actually demands a step which cannot be derived from it.”
Source: Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics
“But it is clear that the price of labour has no necessary connection with the price of food, since it depends entirely on the supply of labourers compared with the demand.”
Source: The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch
“But it is clear to me that our survival—both yours and mine—will be dictated by how well you and I can work together.” “So we’re screwed?”
Source: Magic at the Gate: An Allie Beckstrom Novel
“But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to act on it.”
“But it is daily tasks, daily acts of love and worship that serve to remind us that the religion is not strictly an intellectual pursuit, and these days it is easy to lose sight of that as, like our society itself, churches are becoming more politicized and polarized. Christian faith is a way of life, not an impregnable fortress made up of ideas; not a philosophy; not a grocery list of beliefs.”
“But it is difficult to tell whether something is an oppurtunity or a trap when you are put on the spot.”
Source: Sympathy
“But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and that in this divine affection, and an habitual disposition to it, and that light which is the foundation of it, and those things which are the fruits of it, consists the whole of religion.”
Source: A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections
“But it is easy to call a man in love a mad man.”
Source: Metrophilias
“But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11.”
“But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools.”
“But it is evident, that these bursts of universal distress are more dreaded than felt; thousands and ten thousands flourish in youth, and wither in age, without the knowledge of any other than domestic evils, and share the same pleasures and vexations, whether their kings are mild or cruel, whether the armies of their country pursue their enemies or retreat before them.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius