B Quotes
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“But it must be said from the outset that a disease is never a mere loss or excess— that there is always a reaction, on the part of the affected organism or individual, to restore, to replace, to compensate for and to preserve its identity, however strange the means may be: and to study or influence these means, no less than the primary insult to the nervous system, is an essential part of our role as physicians.”
Source: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
“But it must not be forgotten that ... glass and porcelain were manufactured, stuffs dyed and metals separated from their ores by mere empirical processes of art, and without the guidance of correct scientific principles.”
Source: The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Familiar letters on chemistry
“But it nettled her that friends often badgered her with statements such as "Poodles are sissy dogs." She decided that the best way to convince everyone that the Poodle, despite its fancy haircut, was as intelligent as any other breed, was to have them perform in a series of obedience exercises.”
Source: The story of dog obedience
“But it never ceases to amaze me how difficult the things that are supposed to be instinctive really are.”
Source: The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry
“But it nevertheless seems odd to reaffirm that women's humor exists, because if you look at any random group of women for more than thirteen seconds, you'll notice we're laughing.”
Source: Fast Funny Women: 75 Essays of Flash Nonfiction
“But it only makes visible a darkness that’s already there. Maybe eating it like that…" She looked at Deenie, her voice like a pulse in Deenie’s brain. "Maybe you bring the darkness inside you. Maybe Lise has it inside her now.”
Source: The Fever
“But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.”
Source: Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647
“But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.”
Source: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility
“But it’s a hundred and twelve years old!” He protested.
“She still works pretty good.” Deire maintained. “Stardrive gets a mite twitchy at warp 4, but that’s just a dodgy plasma injector.”
Source: Loderunner
“But it’s a lot easier to blame someone else than accept blame for your own failings.”
Source: Santa Olivia
“But it’s a neurological fact that the scared self holds on while the reasoned one lets go. The adrenaline that let our ancestors escape the sabertooth tiger sears into the meat of our brains the extraordinary, the loud. The shrieking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water.”
“But it's a tough thing, you see. It's so difficult being a merciful Queen.”
Source: Casting Shadows
“But it’s actually sweet, all the time you’ve spent on me. It’s honestly wild, all the effort you’ve put in, it’s actually romantic, I’ve really gotta hand it to you. (No man has ever loved me like you do)”
“But it’s also great to silence technology in the midst of life’s craziness and simply be in the astounding presence of the greatest Designer the world has ever known.”
Source: The Catholic Hipster Handbook: Rediscovering Cool Saints, Forgotten Prayers, and Other Weird but Sacred Stuff
“But it's been easier to navigate ever since I forced myself to reflect internally. To recognize the flaws in myself that make it easier for others to hurt me. Turns out I love to put people on pedestals. Even when I know that doing so will make it so much worse when they inevitably fall.”
Source: Wretched
“But it's different with pastors-not totally different, but different. The heart is the instrument of our vocation. Charles Spurgeon said, "Ours is more than mental work-it is heart work, the labor of our inmost soul." When a pastor's heart is breaking, therefore, he must labor with a broken instrument. Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.”
“But it's difficult, when you've been through certain things, and people in your life don't necessarily believe you. Or they just don't want to know.”
Source: Intermezzo
“But it’s easy enough to ignore temptations when you are confident that there is someone waiting at home for your return. However, if that person is no longer a certainty, then it becomes harder and harder to escape even the least temptation which comes along.”
Source: Sukiyaki
“But it's funny how even after all these years you find yourself wondering just how well you know anyone. Hell, we've all been tight since we we're kids - been through a lot together - but we still have secrets, don't we? All of us. None of us are ever exactly, precisely what we claim to be, are we? We're one way with some people, another way with other people, maybe another way still when we're all alone. That's what it boils down to fellas. At night, when you're lying there in bed looking at the ceiling, remembering the day, thinking back through things you did and what lies ahead, when it's just you and whatever god you pray to in the dark ...that's when all the masks are peeled away and it's just you. Just you..., and whoever...or whatever you are.”
Source: The Bleeding Season
“But it's hard to explain, Mitch.
Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer than I ever did before..
..I feel their anguish as if it were my own.
I don't know any of these people.
But - how can I put this? - I'm almost... drawn to them.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“But it's hard to explain, Mitch. Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting fired upon, killed, innocent victims... and I just started to cry. I feel their anguish as if it were my own. I don't know any of these people. But--how can I put this?--I'm almost... drawn to them.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“But it's hard to leave a place when you're tied to it by fear, when it's broken you with fear, when it's all you've ever known.”
Source: The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls
“but it's her kindness i think i like best because i've been around long enough to know how rare something like that really is.”
Source: The Best Of Me
“But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them.”
Source: Lock and Key
“But it's important to keep in mind that you break out of this scarcity mindset the same way that you break out of any bad habit. You need to actively change your thinking and behavior over time. Maybe that's saying affirmations in the mirror in the morning, maybe it's pounding the table and negotiating at your job for more money every single year, maybe it's forcing yourself to order something that isn't the cheapest thing on the menu. So, while yes, I highly recommend you talk to a therapist, you also need to be making active decisions to grow your wealth instead of just hoarding it or frittering it away.”
Source: Rich AF: The Winning Money Mindset That Will Change Your Life
“But it's like life, isn't it? We know death is coming and yet we always see our loved ones as taken away from us instead of given to us for whatever time they have.”
Source: The Silent Land
“But it's like no matter how much energy you pour into getting to the station on time, or getting on the right train, there's still no guarantee that anybody's gonna be there for you to pick you up when you get there.”
“But it’s mine,” he whispered against my cheek and then his mouth moved to my ear. “All, fuckin’, mine.”
Source: Rock Chick Reckoning
“But it's more than a scratch it's a slap in the face and a knife in the back, it's a punch in the stomach because you'd rather believe some made up rumor than what you knew to be true. So tell me Jessica, did you drag yourself to my funeral? And what about you-the rest of you- did you drag yourself to my funeral, and if you did, did you see the scars you left? No, probably not because most of them can't been seen with the naked eye.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“But it's natural for men to compete against each other. We've been doing it since the cave days. Why else do we have wars? Wars are competition, no matter what the politicians call them.”
“But it's never wise to bet against any of the four horsemen long term. Their historical track record is horrifyingly good.”
Source: The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
“But it’s not about violence; it’s about doing what you can, whenever you can, to stand up for what you believe. You fight and you never, ever give up. That’s what makes a man.”
Source: The Long Way Down
“But it’s not consolation she wants. On the contrary, she is looking for precise words, forgotten facts - or maybe new ones - that will inflame her pain and grief over he big sister, whose death had claimed a portion of her own youth. Yes, she has a clear desire to breathe life into her loss and crack open the crust of forgetfulness that has begun to envelop her.”
Source: Friendly Fire
“But it's not easy, realising how we fucked it all up. And that turns out to be the hardest thing to live with, not the regret or the fear, but the realisation that the edge is so close to where we live.”
Source: The Financial Lives of the Poets
“But it's not enough. I don't look human. If I went outside, people would scream at the sight of me. Looks matter to most people. That's reality in the world."
"Not my world."
I petted Pilot. "I like your world, Will, but it doesn't have a very big population. I'm going to let her go.”
Source: Beastly
“But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose as friends, and most of all it's what work you do ... Better to break both our hearts now than watch them wither away over time.”
Source: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
“But it’s not fair. You shouldn’t be the only one —” “Fair?” Kai asks, raising one eyebrow. “Of course it’s not fair. We’re in one of the richest cities in the world, and there are people starving in the streets, businessmen spending thousands of yuan to cheat on their wives and feeling generous for giving a few coins to a beggar. You think anyone cares about fair?” “You do,” Eli points out. “I do.” “Oh, good,” Kai says, “two people in a city of millions. Truly encouraging, I look forward to seeing how we single-handedly turn years of corruption and systemic injustice around.”
Source: After the Dragons
“But it's not healthy!” replied the Hag. “A mortal and a god sharing the same flesh?”
“You know, this isn't why we're here. I can get abuse pretty much wherever.”
“Yeah,” sighed the Maid, “but I bet a tenner I can make you cry in half a minute.”
Source: The Midnight Mayor
“But it's not just me, you know. The whole world's sad," I said. "It's like a virus. It's going to end badly. Glaciers melting, ozone depleted. Terrorists blowing up buildings, nuclear rods infecting the aqueducts. Influenza hopping from the pigeons to the humans, killing millions. Billions. People rotting in the street. The sun bursting open, shattering us eight minutes later. If not that, starvation. Cannibalism. Freakish mutated babies with eyeballs in their navels. It's a terrible place to bring a child into," I said. "This world. It is terrible. Just terrible.”
Source: The Monsters of Templeton
“But it’s not just those early years without my parents that branded me. It’s the life I’ve led in America as a migrant, watching my parents pursue their dream in this country and then having to deal with its carcass, witnessing the crimes against migrants carried out by the U.S. government with my hands bound. As an undocumented person, I felt like a hologram. Nothing felt secure. I never felt safe. I didn’t allow myself to feel joy because I was scared to attach myself to anything I’d have to let go of. Being deportable means you have to be ready to go at any moment, ready to go with nothing but the clothes on your body. I've learned to develop no relationship to anything, not to photos, not to people, not to jewelry or clothing or ticket stubs or stuffed animals from childhood.”
Source: The Undocumented Americans
“But it's not my job to know the truth; it's my duty to give my clients the defense they are legally entitled to.”
Source: The Two Lila Bennetts
“But it's not smooth sailing"
"Life isn't?”
Source: Love from A to Z
“But it's not the beginning; it's the end. It's just coming towards me in slow motion, so I can't make out the shape of it.”
Source: Tilt
“But it's not the sandwich that matter Coyote. It's someone bringing you the sandwich.”
Source: Coyote Lost and Found
“But it's not true. A mockingbird is just a songbird. A mockingjay is a creature the Capitol never intended to exist. They hadn't counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic codem, to thrive in a new form. They hadn't anticipated its will to live.”
Source: Catching Fire
“But it’s not your world. I was fingerpainting and flicking through my dad’s art books while you slurped back cornflakes with a silver spoon.”
I shook my head. “That’s bullshit.”
“Oh?” She grinned.
“I hate cornflakes. And I don’t slurp.”
Source: A Taste of Peace
“But it’s okay… it will all be over soon.”
“But it’s okay that you think that. I think it takes a lot of energy and hard work to pretend things are perfect. I think I’d get really exhausted trying to pretend that. Sometimes it takes a lot of guts and bravery to admit that things aren’t perfect, that they’re not even okay. How would anyone know I needed help if I was always pretending everything was fine?”
Source: The Kindness of Strangers
“But... it's one of those laws of the universe, isn't it? Nothing stays the same. Things change.”
“But it's only when we allow ourselves to get lost that we can have the opportunity to find and be found.”
Source: Nomad: A spirituality for travelling light