B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But men are less used to the idea of being raped than women are, and it strikes them with a fresh horror. With women, that horror comes right along with the female genitals.”
Source: An Ice Cold Grave
“But men are men; the best sometimes forget.”
“But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this produces terrible evils for all.”
Source: Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers
“But men are shortsighted. Especially when a heavy crown is blocking their eyes.”
Source: The Teller of Small Fortunes
“But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.”
“But men are such strange creatures, really. I think most of them would rather we weren’t around at all, so they could just spend time mooning over each other. Hero worship and all that stuff.”
Source: The Coming Storm
“But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts”
“But men don't come in just two groups, one of gold and the other of lead. They are a mix of both." "And what about women?" "Pure gold, my girl," Rayvan answered with a chuckle.”
“But men have loved darkness rather than light.”
“But men have the hearts of little boys. They love to make up big golden dreams, to treasure as if they were true....”
Source: The Unforgiven
“But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.”
“But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.”
Source: William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
“But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.”
“But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.”
“But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.”
“But mercy ceases to be a virtue when it enables further injustice.”
Source: The Blood Mirror
“But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept a truth one has never reflected upon retards the advance of reason. Our world rots in deceit. . . . Just as a tree bears the same fruit year after year and at the same time fruit that is new each year, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually created anew in thought. But our age pretends to make a sterile tree bear fruit by tying fruits of truth onto its branches.”
“But merely being tradition does not make something worthy.”
Source: Oathbringer
“But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can't just assume that because something is old it is right.”
Source: Oathbringer
“But metaphors can reduce the distance." "We're not metaphors." "I know, but metaphors eliminates what separates you and me.”
“But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“But metaphors set up not only similarities but also oppositions. A cup and a shield are alike in their form (round and concave), but opposite in their function (peace vs. war), just as Ares and Dionysus are alike insofar as they are gods, but opposite with regard to the ends they pursue and to the instruments they use.”
Source: Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
“But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it”
“But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader.”
Source: Imagination in Coleridge
“But Michael Jackson didn't have perfect diction - He said 'chamone' instead of 'come on'.”
“But Michael Vick killed dogs, and he did in a heartless and cruel way. And I think, personally, he should've been executed for that. He wasn't, but the idea that the President of the United States would be getting behind someone who murdered dogs?”
“But Michael was only six. He should be worrying about learning how to tie his shoes, not about our mother’s checking account.”
Source: The Crane Husband
“But middle-class in this country was a state of mind, as one of Kaiz’s unbearable friends had once declared. Not the filthy-rich of masala movies, not the dirt-poor of arthouse films, but everything in between. For some it was shorthand for middle-access, a separation from the corridors of power. For others it was middle-culture, a separation from the world of ideas.”
Source: Milk Teeth
“But might not his [the president's] nomination be overruled? I grant it might, yet this could only be to make place for another nomination by himself. The person ultimately appointed must be object of his preference, though perhaps not in the first degree. It is also not very probable that his nomination would often be overruled.”
Source: The Fœderalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Fœderal Convention, September 17, 1787. Reprinted from the Original Text. With an Historical Introduction and Notes
“But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth;
The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth:
Flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam,
Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“But Mike was like a Bjork song-all happy and giddy and fun on the surface, but bubbling with turmoil and pain underneath.”
“But millions at one time, beyond gender or race, had their attention fixed on her, and with that power, she chose to flash the word "feminist" all over our TV screens. If that don't do nothin' but make people Google the word, then that should make every feminist in the world proud.”
“But mind is not all, for beyond mind is a greater consciousness.”
Source: Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“but minutes soon turned into hours,
hours soon turned into days,
days turned into months,
and a whole revolution in space.
but he never came back”
Source: remains: the silent flames that stay untamed
“But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes advantage of His inattention to grant an illicit mercy. God...is an Anglican, whereas Our Lady is of the True Faith; the two of Them have an uneasy relationship, unable to agree on anything, except that if They divorce, the Devil will leap gleefully into the breach.”
“But miracles do happen, every shining now and then. If not now, if not now, tell me when. From "If Not Now”
“But miracles still happen, even if we don't think they do.”
“But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“But missing something is okay. It's better, anyways, than feeling stuck somewhere. I'll take longing over boredom any day.”
Source: In Search Of Us
“But Mitt Romney understands, like I understand, that people - not governments - create jobs.”
“But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "They’re just songbirds. Right?" "Yeah, I guess so,” I said, But it’s not true. A mockingbird is just a songbird. A mockingjay is a creature the capitol never intended to exist. They hadn’t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to thrive in a new form. They hadn’t anticipated its will to live.”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“But modern bourgeois private property is the final and most complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products, that is based on class antagonisms, on the exploitation of the many by the few.”
Source: The Communist Manifesto
“But modern man, unlike Christian [Pilgrim's Progress], has no book in his hand, he has no faith in Evangelist, and a heavenly city seems to him much more likely to be a mirage. The God-dimension is missing, and he does his thinking in a curious parody of Christian verities.”
Source: Six Makers of English Religion (1500-1700). (Tyndale, Cranmer, John Foxe, Milton, Bunyan & Isaac Watts
“But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, but can recapture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty in it, the beauty! Till that, too, fades away in its turn, and the dreamer bitterly accepts the hard, cold waking and all its penalties.”
Source: The Wind in the Willows: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“But mom's been depressed ever since her last boyfriend turned out to be a Republican.”
Source: The Princess Diaries
“But, Mommy, grief is a container of contradictions. I want to expel something, though I do not know what. I want to rid myself of this heaviness, just as much as I want to keep your ghosts.”
Source: Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
“But moms hear their children even if they don't talk.”
Source: Henri and the Magnificent Snort : A Children's Book about Bullying, Belonging, and Love
“But money doesn’t work in the sense that labor or tangible capital expends
effort to produce commodities. Credit is debt, and debt extracts interest. Financial salesmen who promise investors, “Make your money work for you” actually mean that society should work for the creditors — and that means for the banks that create credit.
The effect is to turn the economic surplus into a flow of interest payments, diverting revenue from tangible capital investment. As the economy’s reproductive powers are dried up, the financialization process is kept going by easing credit terms and lending — not to produce more goods and services, but to bid up prices for the real estate, stocks and bonds being pledged as collateral for larger and larger loans.”
Source: The Bubble and Beyond
“But money has a peculiar nature. It can buy objects and souls, but it can also change them. It dulls emotions. Then, with the methodical and disciplined way in which it is accumulated, it severs every tie of its possessor to the spiritual world, in whose name sometimes their furious pursuit initially sparked. Ultimately, the hunting and cornering, with the ferocity and determination of a bewildered frenzy, disrupts the centre, blurs perceptions, erases the outlines of values, and extracts meaning—both from the pursued and the pursuer. Money loses its purpose. Its function. It no longer serves him, and he forgets to serve himself with it, sinking into self-loathing. The only nature that money eventually retains, and which he attributes to it, because he remembers nothing else, is accumulation. This is the very end: of the humanity in him and the life he was given.”
Source: I Didn't Mean to, But...
“But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.”
Source: Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression