B Quotes
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“But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right.”
“But it's our curse and our blessing to remember the past and to know there's a future. —Charlie”
Source: This World We Live In
“But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.”
“But it's possible to love more than one person at a time, Bella. I've seen it in action.”
Source: Eclipse
“But it's Posy, Gale's five-year-old sister, who helps the most. She scoots along the bench to Octavia and touches her skin with a tentative finger. “You're green. Are you sick?” “It's a fashion thing, Posy. Like wearing lipstick,” I say. “It's meant to be pretty,” whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her lashes. Posy considers this and says matter-of-factly, “I think you'd be pretty in any color.”
“But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this assiduously constructed, and yet somewhat dubious hopelessness, in all this poision of unfulfilled desires turned inward, this fever of vacillations, of resolutions adopted for eternity, and of repentances a moment later that you find the very essence of that strange, sharp pleasure.”
“But it's really hard to eat good when you're traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant.”
“But it's silly to suggest the writing of poetry is something ethereal, a sort of soul-crashing, devastating emotional experience that wrings you. I have no fancy ideas about poetry. ... It doesn't come to you on the wings of a dove. It's something you have to work hard at.”
Source: Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic
“but it's so hard to dance that way when it's cold and there's no music.”
“But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance.”
“But it's strange, when you've always been told something is true, like the moon will come back. You need proof. And while you wait, you feel the entire balance of your world just tipping. It's crazy. But when it's over, and it does come back, that's the best, because it's all you want, everything narrows to just that. It's this great rush, like for that one second everything's okay with the world again. It's amazing.”
“But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.”
Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's
“But it's the things that preceded it that made that happen, and of course now someone like me thinks, well, if I can do that... then there are a lot of other things that are possible.”
“But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“But it's the wrestler who can put the fatigue out of his mind and break through the "wall," like a marathon runner after 18 or 20 miles, who will survive. The key to that survival is in hard workouts that develop mental confidence to the point where you won't submit to fatigue and pain descending upon you.”
“But it's true, kingdoms and crowns, a God who came down to find you. It's true, angels on high sing through the night, Alleluia.”
“But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world.”
“But it's very difficult, I can tell you I played the Czech Open a few times and it's very difficult just to go on to a scene where the course is prepared differently when the greens are fast and he's not used to it and they're hard as a rock and he's not used to it.”
“But it's very technical and you really have to work and work and work to crack it. It's about using your whole face, jaw and tongue in a totally different way. It was very interesting - I love the English language, which made it easier.”
“But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.”
Source: DUNE
“But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe.”
Source: On Writing
“But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.”
“But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.”
“But its crazy - like ten percent a year increase of children taking fucking anti-depressants. Pre-schoolers are like, the most prescribed. That makes me so mad!”
“But its not funny. Not to people who've been told they're losers their whole lives and believe they will never be anything else.”
“But it’s compounded by the fact that I love animals and feel better not eating them.”
“But it’s like Cherise says, the hardest ones to love are always the ones who need it most. (Aimee)”
Source: Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel
“But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.”
“But it’s there. Just because I haven’t told anyone doesn’t mean it isn’t there, all the time, lurking in the back of my mind, like one those NSync songs you can’t get out of your head.”
Source: Young Blood
“But it’s up to us …’ he said softly. ‘It’s up to us not to lose this”
Source: The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection
“But I’ll never see anyone else, Bella. I only see you. Even when I close my eyes and try to see something else. Ask Quil or Embry. It drives them all crazy”
Source: Eclipse
“But I’m just going to be out there having a tea party with her cats or whatever it is she has in mind." Adrian”
“But I’m living proof you don’t have to spend a lot in order to look great.”
Source: Queen of Babble Bundle with Bonus Material
“But I’ve also been known to answer to ‘sweetheart’ or ‘handsome.”
Source: Siege and Storm: Chapters 1-5
“But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get soggy at the memory of some childhood knickknack; nor do I want to deceive myself sentimentally about something that wasn’t even true at the time—love of the old school, and so on. But if nostalgia means the powerful recollection of strong emotions—and a regret that such feelings are no longer present in our lives—then I plead guilty.”
“But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.”
Source: What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
“But Jace", Clary said. "Valentine taught him more than just fighting. He taught him languages, and how to play the piano"
"That was Jocelyn's influence." Sebastian said her name unwillingly, as if he hated the sound of it. "She thought Valentine ought to be able to talk about books, art, music...not just killing things. He passed that on to Jace."
A wrought iron blue gate rose to their left. Sebastian ducked under it and beckoned Clary to follow him. She didn't have to duck but went after him, her hands stuffed into her pockets. "What about you?" she asked.
He held up his hands. They were unmistakably her mother's hands - dexterous, long-fingered, meant for holding a brush or a pen. "I learned to play the instruments of war, " he said, "and paint in blood. I am not like Jace.”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“But Jacks was all broken without any heart.”
Source: The Ballad of Never After
“But James is my north now. The flames are my north now. Our dark secrets are my north now.”
Source: Perfect Lies
“But Jamie has always believed the truest joy in life is when someone else holds in their hands a relief map to all your most errant nonsense. Money is fake, fame is bullshit, but intimacy is bloody treasure.”
Source: Lessons in Magic and Disaster
“But jealous souls will not be answered so.
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealous for they’re jealous. It is a monster
Begot upon itself, born on itself.”
Source: Othello
“But jealous souls will not be answered so, They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they're jealous. 'Tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself.”
“But jealousy is a dreadful thing, Jessica. It is the most natural to us of the really wicked passions and it goes deep and envenoms the soul. It must be resisted with every honest cunning and with the deliberate thinking of generous thoughts, however abstract and empty these may seem in comparison with that wicked strength... There is no merit, Jessica, in a faithfulness which is poison to you and captivity to him.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“But jealousy is born less of love and more of insecurity”
Source: Deep End
“But jest apart--what virtue canst thou trace
In that broad trim that hides thy sober face?
Does that long-skirted drab, that over-nice
And formal clothing, prove a scorn of vice?
Then for thine accent--what in sound can be
So void of grace as dull monotony?”
“But Jesus and Christianity have a tenuous relationship at best.”
“But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people.”
“But Jesus could see inside people. And inside, in their hearts, Jesus saw that they did not love God or other people. They were running away from God, and they thought they didn't need a rescuer. They thought they were good enough because they kept the rules. But sin had stopped their hearts from working properly. And their hearts were hard and cold.
"This woman knows she's a sinner," Jesus told them. "She knows she'll never be good enough. She knows she needs me to rescue her. That's why she loves me so much. You look down on this woman because you don't look up to God. She is sinful on the outside-but you are sinful on the inside.”
Source: The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name
“But Jesus has been depicted as a serious man. And Christians say he never laughed. Then what is the function of an Enlightened man? If Jesus cannot laugh, then who is going to laugh in this world?”
“But Jesus looked at them and said, "With men, it is impossible. But not with God. With God, all things are possible.”