B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty.”
Source: The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.
“But little do we realize that behind the scenes God is using all the disappointments, frustrations, and storms of our lives to shape us and mold our character, if only we will let Him.”
Source: The Joy of the In-Between: 100 Devotions for Trusting God in Your Waiting Season: A Devotional
“But Little League can be a great experience for kids, as long as they want to play--and don't play to bring their parents glory.”
Source: When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
“But little Mouse, you are not alone,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes of mice and men
Go often askew,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!
Still you are blest, compared with me!”
“But Little Sunshine stayed on; it was his rightful home, he said, for if he went away, as he had once upon a time, other voices, other rooms, voices lost and clouded, strummed his dreams.”
Source: Other Voices, Other Rooms
“But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.”
“But live you get the chance every night to rework it and change it and hone it. But then you get the false, weird oddness of being able to look at it and say: "Well that's weird, because last night they laughed at that and yet they didn't tonight. So what did I do? Nothing was different." You have that strange thing of being able to tell within five minutes what an audience is like. Very quickly an audience gets a personality and you start to think: "What is it about you all; you all hate it, don't you?" Then you come out and have friends in and they say: "It was brilliant!"”
“But lives were long, and people changed.”
Source: The City of Love
“But living…if you live for someone, you have to give up so much, and then keep on going. You have to endure the daily hardships and burdens. You can’t just escape the problems, you have to deal with each and every one of them. You still sacrifice your life, only living for someone means that your whole life, day by day, becomes the sacrifice.”
Source: A Rebel Spark
“But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear”
“But logic is not all, one needs one's heart to follow an idea.”
Source: The Quotable Feynman
“But Loki's relations with Svadilfari were such that a while later he gave birth to a colt.”
“But Lon was not only entertainment; he mixed entertainment with information like a modern novelist who not only gives you a lot of love-making, but also leaves you, when the lovers part, with a lot of information about running a hotel, avoiding sharks, or living in a kibbutz.”
Source: The Life I Really Lived
“But loneliness is as delusive a belief in the pertinence of the world as is love: in choosing to feel lonely, as in choosing to love, one carves a space next to oneself to be filled by others - a friend, a lover, a toy poodle, a violinist on the radio.”
“But loneliness isn’t necessarily tied to whether you have a partner or a best friend or an aspirational active social life in which you’re laughing all the time. It’s a variance that rests in the space between the relationships you have and the relationships you want. Loneliness lives in the gap.”
Source: Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
“But loneliness, true loneliness, is impossible to accustom oneself to, and while I was still young I thought of my situation as somehow temporary, and did not stop hoping and imagining that I would meet someone and fall in love...Yes, there was a time before I closed myself off to others.”
Source: Great House
“But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.”
“But look around at this world, how perfectly it's made. Flowers can't move, yet the insects come to them and spread their pollen. Trees can't move either, but birds and animals eat their fruit and carry their seeds far and wide.”
Source: Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
“But look at Avatar (2009), one of the most globally viewed pieces of entertainment to have ever been made - the central emotional event of the whole movie was a tree being cut down. And the entire movie, essentially, is saying, "If we let the military industrial complex trash the place that we're living in, we will have committed an epic crime."”
“But look at the men who have those perverted notions about the grace of Jesus Christ which has come down to us, and see how contrary to the mind of God they are. . . . They even abstain from the Eucharist and from the public prayers, because they will not admit that the Eucharist is the self-same body of our Savior Jesus Christ which flesh suffered for our sins, and which the Father of His goodness raised up again.”
“But look behind you, Mary.' She nodded towards the dais. 'One of the musicians seems to be trying to attract your attention.'
It was Peter. He was standing on the dais smiling across at me. My delight at seeing him was such that I could not disguise it - did not try to disguise it.”
Source: Mary Bennet
“But look how we broke each other in the end. Who could have killed me better than you?”
Source: Vagabonds!
“But look! I am starting to give him up!
I believe he is not coming back. Something
has died, inside me, believing that”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“But look what happens when the government gives you rights. When the government gives you rights, unlike when God gives you rights, the government can take them away. When government gives you rights, the government can tell you how to exercise those rights.”
“But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.”
Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
“But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.”
“But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.”
“But look, I cleared out all y’all that got in the way/And y’all knew that I was ill, but now my doctor is Dre”
“But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.”
“But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.”
“But looking at this closet, so nice and arranged with their crazy lives at rest among these carefully placed clothes and footwear, she felt good about where they were. "Normal" was not a bad things in this lunatic world; it really was. No matter how it happened to be defined.”
“But looking at you was nothing like looking at those pictures. When I first saw,” he said, looking down at her chest, then up again to meet her eyes, “it hurt, almost a physical pain. Since you finished chemo, you've gotten so strong again. Sometimes I almost forget what you've been through. But seeing your scars, they reminded me of your hurt. How you've been cut apart. What you gave up.”
It was important, not keeping herself back from him, putting parts of herself off limits. But it stung when he sank down to brush his lips over the two biggest scars.
“But your scars are beautiful. I mean, I look at them, and I want to kiss, I want to touch, I feel this tenderness for them. You know how when you love someone, when you've been with them a long time and you know all the little lines and curves and planes of their body, how you look at little parts of them—the corner of their mouth, the back of their hand, the little crease where their earlobe meets their jaw—and you can feel like you're in love with that little piece of them? Maybe soon, I'll look at your scars like that. But right now, it's this feeling I've never had for a part of someone's body, before, because they promise me you're well. That you get to live. That we get to have a long life together.”
Her love for him was swelling up in her chest, the way it did sometimes, an ache she wanted to hold on to.”
Source: Hurt
“But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.”
“But looking beautiful isn't, I think, as important as feeling beautiful.”
“But Lord! to see how much of my old folly and childishnesse hangs upon me still that I cannot forbear carrying my watch in my hand in the coach all this afternoon, and seeing what o'clock it is one hundred times; and am apt to think with myself, how could I be so long without one; though I remember since, I had one, and found it a trouble, and resolved to carry one no more about me while I lived.”
“But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.”
“But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall.”
Source: James K. Baxter
“But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.”
Source: The New York Trilogy
“But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.”
Source: The Fairyland Series
“But lots of emerging racial tensions in California have nothing to do with whites: Filipinos and Samoans are fighting it out in San Francisco high schools. Merced is becoming majority Mexican and Cambodian. They may be fighting in gangs right now, but I bet they are also learning each other's language.”
“But lots of people do parody now. The whole mash-up thing that's so prevalent now was starting in the 80's when I was starting to think about this stuff. I certainly wasn't the first person to do it but now... comics mash-ups, all kinds of mash-ups are everywhere.”
“But love brings much happiness - much more so than pining brings pain.”
“But Love cannot understand this. He cannot comprehend another's infinity; he is conscious only of his own—flying sunbeam, falling rose, pebble that asks for one quiet plunge below the fretting interplay of space and time. He knows that he will survive at the end of things, and be gathered by Fate as a jewel from the slime, and be handed with admiration round the assembly of the gods.”
Source: Howards End
“But love doesn't always generate hope. Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much love or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats. You can have love measured out in the wrong proportions. It's like your sunlight and water--the wrong kind of love is just as likely to stifle hope as it is to nourish it.”
Source: The Brief History of the Dead
“But love has a way of revealing itself in the most explicit manner
It will find the narrowest crevices of our being
And ooze out like blood from a cut vein
Dripping into the ocean, leaving its scent
For the sharks to circle in”
Source: Charcuterie of Thoughts
“But Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.”
“But love, I soon learned, and as you know well, takes far more effort than sex. We’ve so few models, men like us, for intimacy, for devotion that endures. By no fault of our own. How many of our stories have been expunged—from history, from memory? With no stories, we’re made to feel alone, unnatural, ashamed.”
“But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to stretch out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.
The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.”
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation.”
“But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.”