B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light.”
Source: Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Complete Shorter Poems
“But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over.”
Source: The Aleph and Other Stories
“But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.”
“But let not the foundation of our hope rest upon man's wisdom. It will not be sufficient that sectional prejudices find no place in the public deliberations. It will not be sufficient that the rash counsels of human passion are rejected. It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.”
Source: Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids
“But let not those worthy young women, who may think themselves destined to a single life, repine over-much at their lot; since, possibly, if they have had no lovers, or having had one, two, or three, have not found a husband, they have had rather a miss than a loss, as men go.”
“But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer,
Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep
In the affliction of these terrible dreams
That shake us nightly.”
“But let the good old corn adorn
The hills our fathers trod;
Still let us, for his golden corn,
Send up our thanks to God!”
Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
“But let the good prevail.”
Source: The Oresteia
“But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.”
Source: Complete Works
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“But let there be no misunderstanding. The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War.”
“But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention, has been substituted for the soul, the illusion of theologians. The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection more profound than himself. A 'soul' inhabits him and brings him to existence, which is itself a factor in the mastery that power exercises over the body. The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.”
“But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”
Source: Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran
“But let us emphasize that right and wrong, righteousness and sin, are not dependent upon man's interpretations, conventions and attitudes. Social acceptance does not change the status of an act, making wrong into right. If all the people in the world were to accept homosexuality, the practice would still be a deep, dark sin.”
“But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.”
“But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and eventually they die”
“But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.”
Source: Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
“But let us not put our sights too high. We do not have to be saviours of the world! We are simply human beings, enfolded in weakness and in hope, called together to change our world one heart at a time. (163)”
Source: Becoming Human
“But let us remember that we are dealing with infinities and indivisibles both of which transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness.”
“But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.”
“But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there be to take his life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.”
“But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair isn't it? Um, so he doesn't even have to ask the country before he goes to war - sorry that's still Tony Blair.”
“But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.”
“But let's not assume that trade is the only challenge we have in the economy. I think it is a part of it, and I've said what I'm going to do.”
“But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.”
Source: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
“But let's speak of art for a moment. Yes, art. I know a gentleman who makes excellent portraits. This gentleman is a camera.”
“But letting that glimmering, lovely light before him die out ... In his ancient, bitter bones, he could not accept it.”
“But Levin was in love, and so it seemed to him that Kitty was so perfect in every respect that she was a creature far above everything earthly; and that he was a creature so low and so earthly that it could not even be conceived that other people and she herself could regard him as worthy of her.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“But liberals love to drape themselves in decades-old glories they had nothing to do with.”
“But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government.”
Source: Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
“But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information.”
Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
“But lies are lies, even if the truth doesn't make sense.”
Source: The Upside of Falling Down
“But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.”
Source: Red Mars
“But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.”
Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings
“But life can be interpreted in so many different ways,’ said Ianthe in her quiet voice. ‘Perhaps there the novelist has the advantage and he can let his imagination go where it will.’ She saw herself again in John’s room in Pimlico, washing up at the sink in the corner. ‘Even the most apparently narrow and uneventful life,’ she began thoughtfully, then stopped, uncertain of what she was going to say next. What did it mean for her — that little episode — what was its significance in the pattern?”
Source: An Unsuitable Attachment
“But life cannot be experienced one emotion at a time. It is a tapestry of sensation, a braided rope of feeling. We must allow for reflection even when we suffer. We must reach for compassion even when we triumph. If you spend your days waiting for your sorrows to end so that you might finally live” – he shook his head – “you will die an impatient man.”
Source: All This Twisted Glory
“But life cannot maintain itself alone. The Creator of life has entrusted us with the responsibility of preserving, developing, and perfecting it. In order that we may accomplish this, He has provided us with a collection of marvelous faculties. And He has put us in the midst of a variety of natural resources. By the application of our faculties to these natural resources we convert them into products, and use them. The process is necessary in order that life may run its appointed course.”
Source: The Law
“But life goes on. We live to play another day.”
Source: Apples Never Fall
“But life happens in its own course, whether you’re ready or not.”
Source: Vegas Baby
“But life has a way of teaching us that letting feelings run the show leads to all kinds of bad stuff.”
Source: The Surprising Secrets of Highly Happy Marriages: The Little Things That Make a Big Difference
“But life has no smooth roads for any of us. And in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to sturdier and steadier steps, till that other legend of the rough places fulfils itself at last; "per aspera ad astra;" over steep ways to the stars.”
“But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current.”
“But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!”
“But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.”
“But life is a lot more balanced and varied now. My competitive nature has softened, and my drive and determination are channelled into different pursuits. Projects like these books, my career with Parkrun, and being with friends and family—when we’re allowed—are now more important than setting sporting goals. I’ll always be active, but I no longer feel the need to go out on a five-hour bike ride. My desire to prove something through sport has lessened, but my desire to achieve things beyond sport has increased.”
“But life is beautiful, Sariel!’ Gabriel said, trying to convince him. ‘Watch the sunrise sometime lying in the scented flowers of the field, or the shooting stars at the end of summer! Read a couple of really exciting books or lose yourself in the unselfconscious smiles of children. Have a swim in a clear mountain lake or take a run among trees clothed in autumn colours. If you can see the good in Earth, your own existence will become the richer for it!’
‘That all sounds very well and good, but you haven’t convinced me,’ the deep-voiced angel murmured and Ariel laughed.
‘My friend, Gabriel was very gently trying to suggest that you should fall in love and that will better dispose you to the world!”
Source: Breath of Darkness
“But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far and superior to that of muscle and sinew. Let me tell you, if you don't know it from your own experience, that reading a good book, losing yourself in the interest of words and thoughts, is for some people (me, for instance) an incredible intensity of happiness.”
Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir
“But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last.”
“But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story.”