B Quotes
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“But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.”
“But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be intelligent, which is really stupid. And when intelligence takes itself for its own goal, it operates very strangely: the proof that it exists is not to be found in the ingenuity or simplicity of what it produces, but in how obscurely it is expressed.”
“But many more daughters of distant fathers are unable to reach orgasm, or achieve it with consistency with any man. Indeed these daughters have the most trouble in bed: for them, affection and arousal are synonymous with rejection.”
Source: Women and Their Fathers: The Sexual and Romantic Impact of the First Man in Your Life
“But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty.”
“But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
Source: All About Love: New Visions
“But many people don’t realize that the domestic and the foreign policies are actually intertwined. If your government needs to spend billions on waging wars, guess where are they going to get it from? Yes, from your schools, health systems, and other essential public services and institutions.”
“But many researchers operate as if it is their responsibility to demonstrate that video violence has a direct effect on the behaviour of young children, because that will help to explain why society is becoming more violent.”
“But many, many stories were told; from what could be gathered, all fifty of the mine's inhabitants had reacted on each other, two by two, as in combinatorial analysis, that is to say, everyone with all the others, and especially every man with all the women, old maids or married, and every woman with all the men. All I had to do was to select two names at random, better if different sex, and ask a third person, "What happened with those two?" and lo and behold, a splendid story was unfolded for me, since everyone knew the story of everyone else.”
“But Marchent, most journalists can’t be trusted. You do know that, don’t you?”
Source: The Wolf Gift
“But Margaret was at an age when any apprehension, not absolutely based on a knowledge of facts, is easily banished for a time by a bright sunny day, or some happy outward circumstance. And when the brilliant fourteen fine days of October came on, her cares were all blown away as lightly as thistledown, and she thought of nothing but the glories of the forest.”
Source: North and South
“But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she was thrown with one or two of those who, in all measures affecting masses of people, must be acute sufferers for the good of many. The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible?”
Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)
“But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.”
“But mark, madam, we live amongst riddles and mysteries--the most obvious things, which come in our way, have dark sides, which thequickest sight cannot penetrate into; and even the clearest and most exalted understandings amongst us find ourselves puzzled and at a loss in almost every cranny of nature's works.”
Source: Works, Containing the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters and C
“But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.”
“But marriage is not like that, Chief-Inspector. There can be no rapture continued indefinitely. We are fortunate indeed if we can achieve a life of quiet content, affection, and serene and sober happiness.”
Source: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
“But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer”
“But marriages were mysterious and private things, even to the people in the marriages themselves. One spouse's perception of how the relationship was fairing could be drastically different from the other spouse's. In marriage, you were ultimately alone together”
Source: Dele Weds Destiny
“But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.”
“But marrying within one's own family can get monotonous. One has heard all the same family stories, knows all the jokes and all the same recipes. No novelty.”
Source: The Memoirs of Cleopatra
“But Mary Elizabeth felt different. She kept saying it was an "articulate" film. So "articulate." And I guess it was. The thing is, I didn't know what it said even if it said it very well.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“But, masters, remember that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.”
“But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.”
Source: Selected papers
“But mattering to her alone wasn’t reason enough for a person to live. Rafi needed to know he belonged to more than just his lover, that many people cherished him and wanted him back. That he had a place in the world, just by virtue of being himself.”
Source: Ballad for Jasmine Town
“But maturity of vision does not come even with age, and so how could it appear in youth? Only some fortunate ones have purity of conduct keeping pace with the whitening of hair.”
Source: Kadambari
“But May-belle was not normal. She had the observational skills of one forced to sit on the sidelines of life, the crushing sensitivity that goes with some kinds of introversion, and the depleted self-confidence of one constantly reminded that their differences were not something to be celebrated.”
Source: Behind May-belle's Curtain
“But may the truth be told. May the true self may be found. May the truth rule the world more than ever. How easy life will be if everyone is just true to themselves, true to their words, true to their actions and true to life?”
“But maybe a man was nothing but a man.”
Source: Beloved
“But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely that was, they studied your scars and tribulations, after which they did what he had done: ran her children out and tore up the house. [...] A man ain't nothing but a man,' said Baby Suggs. 'But a son? Well now, that's somebody.”
“But maybe as I get older, I begin to see beauty where I least expected it before.”
“But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies.”
“But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums.”
“But maybe everything'll go all right. In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take what ever God sends.”
Source: Anne of Avonlea
“But maybe going through that kind of tough, lonely experience is necessary when you're young? Part of the process of growing up? [...] The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grow stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter.”
Source: Men Without Women
“But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.”
Source: Six Plays
“But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.”
Source: Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)
“But maybe his father was right. Maybe what had happened in 1918 could never happen again.
"U.S. Reveals Detailed Flu Disaster Plans."
Cole decided to make this the topic for his research report. Plans for manufacturing and distributing vaccines and other medications. Plans to quarantine the sick and to call up extra doctors and nurses and to replace absent workers with retired workers so that businesses wouldn't have to shut down. Plans to keep public transportation and electricity and telecommunications and other vital services operating and food and water and other necessities from running out. Plans to mobilize troops (for Cole this was the only exciting part) in the event of mass panic or violence.
One day he would ask Pastor Wyatt why, despite all these plans, everything had gone so wrong.
"Son, that is just the thing. That is what people did not--and still do not--get. There is no way you can count on the government, even if it's a very good government. The government isn't going to save you, it isn't going to save anyone. There's no way you can count on other people in a situation like we had. People afraid of losing their lives--or, Lord knows, even just their toys--they'll panic. Even fine, decent Christian folk--you can never know for sure what they'll do next. So I say, love your neighbor, help your fellow man all you can, but don't ever count on any other human being. Count on God."
What Cole didn't know was that most of the plans he read about that night would have been sufficient only for an emergency lasting a few weeks.”
Source: Salvation City
“But maybe I’ll try to work myself up. I don’t know if I could do it, but I might try. Because I want to get out of Castle Rock and go to college and never see my old man or any of my brothers again. I want to go someplace where nobody knows me and I don’t have any black marks against me before I start. But I don’t know if I can do it.”
“Why not?”
“People. People drag you down.”
“Who?” I asked, thinking he must mean the teachers, or adult monsters like Miss Simons, who had wanted a new skirt, or maybe his brother Eyeball who hung around with Ace and Billy and Charlie and the rest, or maybe his own mom and dad. But he said:
“Your friends drag you down, Gordie. Don’t you know that?” He pointed at Vern and Teddy, who were standing and waiting for us to catch up. They were laughing about something; in fact, Vern was just about busting a gut.
“Your friends do. They’re like drowning guys that are holding onto your legs. You can’t save them. You can only drown with them.”
Source: The Body
“But maybe if we are surrounded in beauty Someday we will become what we see”
“But maybe it’s the laboring that gives you shape. Might the most fulfilling times be those spent solo at your tasks, literally immersed or not, when you are able to uncover the smallest surprises and unlikely details of some process or operation that in turn exposes your proclivities and prejudices both?”
Source: On Such a Full Sea
“But maybe it was only that Father was thinking that he must arrive in Memphis with the entire family household intact if he was to make a new go of things...He did enter so, and perhaps that is what sustained him in the years immediately afterward, sustained him and in some degree destroyed the rest of us.”
Source: A Summons to Memphis
“But maybe it's better to go after something, and not get it, than to not even try.”
“But maybe it's up the hills or under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.”
“But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith.”
“But maybe, just maybe, I was chasing that feeling. I wanted someone to drown in my depths, the way I lost myself in yours.”
Source: Ends And Edits: Unedited Love
“But maybe kissing was enough. Maybe kissing was the only thing that mattered, anyway. Maybe kissing could overcome the whole vampire/basketball thing.”
Source: Ninth Key
“But maybe love doesn't have to be about lust, maybe I could learn to love, maybe.”
Source: Mr. Maybe
“But maybe, maybe before accepting that, I needed to actually try to fix things. Ask him for what I needed. Tell him how he’d hurt me. Be vulnerable. That was hard for me. I’d grown up being hyper-independent. I used to think that was a strength. It took me too long to realize it was actually a weakness.”
Source: Lonely Hearts Day
“But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.”
Source: Piano sonata no. 2:
“But maybe no one knew that much. Maybe everyone was making it up as they went along, the same as me.”
Source: Our Own Private Universe