Quotes starting with B Page 807

“But it's a stigmatized problem, and it's a silent problem. This has to end. Suicide is not just a personal tragedy, it's a key issue of public policy and facing up to it requires political will.”

Ends Problem Political Issues Policy Keys Tragedy Suicide Silent Public Policy Political Will Personal Tragedy

Author:Bob Rae

“But it's a strange thing when people judge you because you're not doing some big Hollywood film. Are you suggesting I should be in The Dukes of Hazzard? I mean, hello?”

People Should Mean Bigs Film Strange Judging Hollywood Hello Strange Things Suggesting Dukes Hollywood Films Dukes Of Hazzard

Author:Joseph Fiennes

“But it's a whole lot easier to keep[secrets] when you've got someone else who knows breathing in the same room. Carrying them alone is like having a huge spiky weight digging into your shoulders and chest, a weight you can't shift even while you're sleeping.”

Knows Whole Sleep Rooms Secret Huge Easier Weight Shoulders Breathing Chests Digging

Author:Lilith Saintcrow

“But it's about health, not forcing my body to be something it's not meant to be.”

Body Meant To Be Plus Size

Author:Robyn Lawley

“But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.”

Thinking Should Myth Frailty Fragility

Author:William Hurt

“But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.”

Ifs Might Mother Father Games Mets Affection Chess Mother And Father Fondness Playing Chess

Author:Dorothy Dunnett

“But it's also the beginning of another level of liberation for her]Eleanor Roosevelt], because when she returns to New York, she gets very involved in a new level of politics. She meets Esther Lape and Elizabeth Read, and becomes very involved in the women's movement, and then in the peace movement. And ironically, the years of her greatest despair become also the years of her great liberation.”

Years Levels New York Movement Return Involved Despair Liberation Eleanor Esther

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“But it's also true that my memory is a card shark, reshuffling the deck to hide what I fear to know, unable to keep from fingering the ace at the bottom of the deck even when I'm doing nothing more than playing Fish in the daylight with children.”

Knows Children Memories Bottom Fishes Cards Doing Nothing Sharks Daylight Deck Aces

Author:Lorene Cary

Source: Black Ice

“But it's also true that the person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing. All we know about the future is that it will be different. But perhaps what we fear is that it will be the same. So we must celebrate the changes.”

Knows Persons Doe Different Risk Celebrate

Author:Deborah Moggach

“But it's always taking a risk, when you ... kiss someone new.”

Risk Kissing

Author:Scott Westerfeld

Source: Uglies Quartet: Uglies; Pretties; Specials; Extras

“But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.”

People Thinking Men Should Children Gay Shadow Gay Men Gay Pride

Author:Armistead Maupin

“But it's as big as the promise, the promise of a coming day.”

Bigs Promise

Author:Stephen Stills

“But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life.”

Opportunity Honor Soldier Representatives Honored Marine Sailor Humbling Airmen

Author:Hugh Shelton

“But it's been funny to try and carry the through line, but I think the main thing is the relationship that the band has because we have spent now all this time together that I think that's sort of what we returning to. And whenever we get to play together, it still sort of returns to that little shitty rehearsal space. So that's good.”

Thinking Trying Littles Stills Play Together Lines Space Return Band Rehearsal Time Together

Author:Alison Pill

“But it's clear to me that us slow-poke writers are a dying breed. It's amazing how thoroughly my young writing students have internalized the new machine rhythm, the rush many of my young writers are in to publish. The majority don't want to sit on a book for four, five years. The majority don't want to listen to the silence inside and outside for their artistic imprimatur. The majority want to publish fast, publish now.”

Want Writing Years Book Young Silence Clear Five Four Dying Students Machines Majority Rhythm Artistic Five Years Publish Poke Young Writers Inside And Outside

Author:Junot Diaz

“But it's cool working with female directors because I'm a girl, so you do relate to them more. You can talk to them about other stuff like clothes and all that.”

Girl Stuff Directors Clothes Female Relate

Author:Elle Fanning

“But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.”

Littles Privilege Proof

Author:Holly Golightly

“But it's daylight," she said at last. "Vampires can't go out in the sun, everyone knows that!" Bones chuckled. "Right And we shrink back from crosses, can't travel over water, and always get staked in the end by the righteous slayer. Really, who'd be afraid of a creature like that? All you'd need is a Bible, a tanning bed, and some holy water to send us shivering to our dooms.”

Knows Needs Said Ends Lasts Water Sun Holy Bed Creatures Crosses Bones Vampire Righteous Shrinks Doom Daylight Slayer Holy Water Tanning Tanning Beds

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“But it's far too late for us; ring, hair, letters, photographs - all traces of our love will be scattered then, like an anagram.”

Hair Late Letters Photograph Rings Too Late Our Love Anagrams

Author:Daniel Handler

“But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work”

Literature Pace Vary

Author:Donna Tartt

“But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake”

Ifs Real Would Be Fun Goes On Jokes Comedian Awake Being Real

Author:Parker Posey

“But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.”

Want Sometimes Memories Belive

Author:Chris Bohjalian

“But it's God who gives us the ability to do things, even to gain wealth; and we must remember that what we do is only successful when we do it - His Way.”

Way Giving God Christian Remember Religious Wealth Ability Successful Gains

Author:David Jeremiah

“But it's hard for a chick to do comedy. It's not as open for them.”

Hard Comedy Chicks

Author:Joe Rogan

“But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.”

Men Life Giving Hard Pleasure Giving Up

Author:Stephen King

Source: Thinner

“But it's hard for me to pinpoint where all my characters and dialogue come from - imagination or real life. My memoir, of course, was all about my past, and many of the short stories cleave very closely to my life, but the more stories I wrote in the collection, the more that seemed to be invented, but who knows... I think I'm writing about a young woman with acne who shoplifts, but I'm really writing about myself.”

Thinking Knows Writing Real Hard Character Stories Past Young Courses Imagination Real Life Memoir Dialogue Collections Short Story Young Women My Past Acne

Author:Said Sayrafiezadeh

“But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.”

Trying Hard Age Lasts Girl Heard Aging Hips Thirty Nineteen Barbara Streisand Last Dance Barbara Streisand

Author:Judith Viorst

Source: It's hard to be hip over thirty and other tragedies of married life

“But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.”

Hard Today Acting Careers Successful

Author:James MacArthur

“But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in a crowded theater.”

Should Firsts Art Hard Law Order Fire Cry Theater Amendments First Amendment Crowded Gags

Author:Stanley Elkin

“But it's healthy - whatever you can do to keep you fresh and awake. Acting's such a ridiculous job and sometimes you need to look at it like that to get a sort of degree of freshness.”

Needs Looks Sometimes Jobs Can Do Acting Healthy Degrees Ridiculous Awake Freshness

Author:Eric Bana

“But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.”

Way Needs Important Kids Remember Literature Lessons Respect Treated Respecting Others

Author:Anna Quindlen

“But it's interesting being directed by someone who is a very good actor. There's nothing like it. It might sound like a territorial thing about what I do, but I don't think you can understand what it is until you've done it. I know that to be a fact.”

Thinking Knows Done Facts Might Actors Sound Interesting Very Good Good Actors Territorial

Author:Colin Firth

“But it's just been recently that Nashville has started to feel like home.”

Feels Home Nashville

Author:Suzy Bogguss

“But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about.”

Thinking Has Beens Country Whole Problem Bigs Film These Days Big Problems

Author:Alexander Payne

“But it's me taking a stand for something that means something. And it's for the fighters who are up and coming. It's sort of the same stance Martin Luther King and Malcolm X made, so we could have freedoms, so everybody could tell the world that we're equal. The only thing I'm saying is that we are equal. So if you're not on nothing and I'm not on nothing, then let's go take the test. That's all I'm saying.”

Ifs World Mean Made Kings Equal Tests Fighter Luther Stance Stand For Something

Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“But it's more an up-versus-down issue because the research has shown that opinion leaders, whether they're elected officials, journalists, business leaders - it's academics, religious leaders - they have dramatically different views on immigration. A”

Different Religious Views Leader Opinion Issues Research Immigration Journalist Officials Versus Business Leaders Elected Officials Religious Leaders Different Views Opinion Leaders

Author:Mark Krikorian

“But it's morning. Within my hands is another day. Another day to listen and love and walk and glory. I am here for another day.”

Hands Walks Morning Glory And Love Another Day

Author:Hugh Prather

Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

“But it's mostly about pacing yourself when you do these movies.”

Pacing

Author:Robert Englund

“But it's never just been the journals that have made the difference, I don't think. It's also the way the students are with one another . . . the way they talk about books and authors and themselves. Not just their problems, but their passions too. The way they form a little society and discuss whatever matters to them. Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.”

Thinking Way Needs Littles Made Book Matter Problem Light Form Passion Differences Fire Written Students Empty Filled Journal Filled In

Author:Meg Wolitzer

“But it's no use now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, there's ahrdly enough of me left to make one respectable person!”

People Persons Two Enough Use Left Poor Respectable

Author:Lewis Carroll

Source: Alice in Wonderland

“But it's not about knowing. It is simply about going forward.”

Knowing

Author:Lauren Oliver

“but it's not always as set as that. Some things, though, feel like they're right. You and me? It's one of those things. I don't know why they see or why things are such a mess, but in the middle of it all, I do know that being around you is one of tue best things that happened to me in, well, ever.”

Knows Feels Wells Happened Middle Mess Best Things

Author:Melissa Marr

“But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn't.”

People Thinking Needs Should Years Found Easy Forever Understood Should Have Forever Love

Author:Albert Camus

Source: Nobel Prize Library

“But it's not enough to know right from wrong. You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing.”

Knows World Want Life Needs Enough What You Want Wrong Things

Author:Cinda Williams Chima

“But it's not just "Do you want a hit?" More importantly, it has to be something we - the artist and I - like. If you go in just wanting a hit song, it's not going to happen that way. You have to first be committed to making music you like.”

Ifs Way Want Firsts Happens Artist Song Committed

Author:Lukasz Gottwald

“But it's not just the cattle producers, it's all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and the like. There will be enormous ramifications across the beef industry generally as a result of the Government's decision to ban all exports to all of the abattoirs in Indonesia.”

Government Decision Results Industry Enormous Producers Indonesia Bans Transport Beef Cattle Shipping Ramifications

Author:Julie Bishop

“But it's not just the ratty part of town. The upper class in San Francisco is that way. The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time - it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine, with that San Francisco crowd. I can't shake hands with anybody from San Francisco.”

Way I Can Hands Class Imagine Towns Crowds Shakes San Francisco Upper Class Grove Bohemian

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“But it's not only: What are you going to do about touring, it's: What are you going to do with your life? Is there a point to what we do? I think there is. Making music, creating beautiful things. We have to be in love with the good and the beautiful. If we are not, then you're in a nihilistic state.”

Ifs Thinking States Beautiful Life Is Creating Beautiful Things Touring

Author:Lou Reed

“but it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. "Stay with me." As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back but I don't catch it.”

Feels I Can Sleep Safe Sentences Slipping Peeta Stay With Me Syrup Slipping Away

Author:Suzanne Collins

Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

“But it's not the name I'd give to a conqueror of worlds... I would've gone with Thundro or Ragnor. I might just call him Thundro anyway.”

World Giving Might Names Gone Conqueror

Author:Richelle Mead

Source: Shadow Heir

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