B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But life is not a series of deeds. My life is my thoughts.”
Source: Memoirs of a Madman and November
“But life is not evens and odds and solving for x. And sadness? Sadness is an equation made of all variables.”
Source: The Start of Me and You
“But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.”
“But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“But life isn’t a museum. I don’t want to live in the past.”
Source: Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
“But life isn't fun without a sense of enough. Happiness, as it's said, is just results minus expectations”
Source: The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
“But life isn't like one of my novels, where I can change the characters' circumstances.”
Source: The Last Snowfall
“But life isn't neat the way a story is. And if you try to pretend it is, then you just make yourself unhappy, or screw yourself over.”
Source: Version Control
“But life isn't something that should be edited. Life shouldn't be cut. The only way you'll ever discover what it truly means to be alive and human is by sharing the full experience of what it means to be human and each blemish and freckle that comes with it.”
“But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.”
Source: A Farewell to Arms
“But life isn’t about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It’s about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes.”
Source: Time Untime
“But life. It rushes by and then you think you'll see people...You think you'll do things and have time for this and time for that...And then there is never time. This is what I have learned, Anna, I have learned that there is never as much time as you think there is.”
Source: Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars
“But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book.”
“But life's taught me things can always get worse than they are.”
Source: Troubled Blood
“But life seemed fuller, more populated than it had a year ago. She went to exhibitions and films, sometimes alone, sometimes with a friend, and when she’d saved enough of Neil’s money, which was her money, she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spiritual feeling. In Rome, she visited the Non-Catholic Cemetery and sought out the graves of Keats and Shelley and found herself moved and mortified by being moved.”
Source: You Are Here
“But life, they said, means life. Dying inside.
The Devil was evil, mad, but I was the Devil's wife
which made me worse. I howled in my cell.
If the Devil is gone then how could this be hell?”
Source: The World's Wife
“But life was something more; more than what I’ve seen, more than what I’ve heard, more than I’ll ever live.”
“But life wasn't a film. Problems didn't disappear and "The End" wasn't emblazoned across a lingering embrace the moment people succumbed to the inevitable and found the right moment to verbalise it.”
“But life's joys are only joys if they can be shared.”
“But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.”
Source: Sophia's Secret
“But life’s never easy when you need it to be.”
Source: Waiting For You
“But light could not be so swiftly overcome by darkness. Not when that light rested in a person's soul.”
Source: Romanov
“But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't going anywhere. I was myself, waiting on the shore for me to return.
Was that so depressing?
Who knows? Maybe that was 'despair.' What Turgenev called 'disillusionment.' Or Dostoyevsky, 'hell.' Or Somerset Maugham, 'reality.' Whatever the label, I figured it was me.”
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“But like a gambler at a slot machine, hoping the next spin would change her life for the better, she closed in before she lost her nerve. Taking his hand, she pulled him toward her, near enough to feel his body against her. She looked up at him, tilting her head slightly as she leaned in. Mike, recognizing what was happening but still having trouble believing it, tilted his head and closed his eyes, their faces drawing near.”
“But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least, they are not conflicts for survival of a people or a society, even if they are wars of survival for certain businesses or, more accurately, business models. Thus we must keep in mind the other values or objectives that might also be affected by this war. We must make sure this war doesn't cost more than it is worth. We must be sure it is winnable, or winnable at a price we're willing to pay.”
Source: Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy
“But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.”
Source: The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz
“But like all things, the storms do pass.”
Source: Supernova
“But like Elle Woods, I do not like to be underestimated.”
“But, like everything else, it got easier. It always does.”
Source: Royals
“But like everything else, love changed.”
“But like I told you guys years ago: this demigod gig is dangerous. Don't say I didn't warn you.”
Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes
“But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.”
“But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation.”
“But like my dad used to say, the crucial thing about an education is the opportunity that it brings, the doors it opens, because otherwise knowledge, in and of itself, is a blind alley, especially from where I'm sitting.”
Source: Starter for Ten
“But like of each thing that in season grows.”
“But like so many phenomena that were beautiful at a distance—thunderheads, volcanic eruptions, the stars and planets—this alluring pain proved, at closer range, to be inhuman in its scale.”
Source: The corrections
“But like the best empire builders, he was both very determined and very skeptical. It’s like [former Intel CEO] Andy Grove says, ‘only the paranoid survive.”
Source: The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World
“But like the legless man, I'm unaccountably fascinated by those who can dance.”
Source: Wicked Intentions: Number 1 in series
“But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.”
“But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curled state unfold, Translated to a vase of gold; In burning throne though they keep still Serenities unthawed and chill.”
Source: Poems of Francis Thompson
“But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.”
“But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.”
Source: Selected poems
“But listen up Alex Rider.”
“But listen - why are you letting a bunch of old Greek men tell you what a hero ought to be? They'll have you thinking you got to go to war and kill people to prove yourself. Women have always known better than that.”
Source: Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
“But listening to him [Barack Obama] speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform - not even in the state Senate.”
“But listening to the D major, I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of—that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“But literature is one of those realms in which man asserts his freedom, his spirit: in literature of a first-rate order, man attains a kind of imaginative freedom in which he asserts, implicitly, that in his spirit, he will not be the slave of fate. He assimilates tragedy, sorrow, and bitterness.”
“But literature, the best of it, does not aim to be literature. It wants and strives, beyond that artifact part of itself, to be a true part of the composite human record—that is, not words but a reality.”
Source: Upstream: Selected Essays
“But literature, I discovered, can also save you. Truly. Over the cliché and through the truth, it can save.”
“But little did we know, as the sun rose and cast its warm rays upon us, it also began to dry the rain of our love. The drops that once fell so gently and passionately now evaporated, leaving behind only faded memories. The sun, relentless in its pursuit, illuminated the truth we tried so hard to ignore. And as the last remnants of our love evaporated, we stood there, basking in the warmth of what once was, knowing that our story had reached its final chapter.”
Source: The Heartbreak Language