B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.”
“BUT MY RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN ME THAT FEMINISM HAS BECOME AN UNPOPULAR WORD. WOMEN ARE CHOOSING NOT TO IDENTIFY AS FEMINISTS.”
“But my relief that David Auburn's Proof is less about its ballyhooed higher mathematics than the fragility of life and love was matched by my delight in his fine and tender play. (...) Proof surprises us with its aliveness and intelligent modesty, and we have not met these characters before.”
“But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.”
“But my sadness is comforting Because it’s right and natural And because it’s what the soul should feel When it already thinks it exists And the hand pick flowers And the soul takes no notice.”
Source: Poems of Fernando Pessoa
“But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.”
“But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT.”
“But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.”
Source: Folie Du Jour
“But my sin was this, that I looked for pleasure, beauty, and truth not in Him but in myself and His other creatures, and the search led me instead to pain, confusion, and error.”
Source: Confessions
“But my soul remains in Grace, babes. All my failures are constantly redeemed too.”
“But my thoughts
breed truths
that my heart
can't
bare.
Like Melody.”
Source: The Deadly Game
“But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.”
Source: Don Quixote
“But my uncle says that was merely rationalizing it; the real reason, hidden underneath, might be they didn't want people sitting like that, doing nothing, rocking, talking; that was the wrong kind of social life. People talked too much. And they had time to think.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. You need boots on the ground. And then you need to have interior enforcement of our nation's immigration laws inside the country. And that means dealing with the employers who still consistently hire illegal labor.”
“But my vote for Venus's most peculiar feature is the presence of craters that are all relatively young and uniformly distributed over its surface. This innocuous-sounding feature implicates a single planetwide catastrophe that reset the cratering clock... turning Venus's entire surface into the American automotive dream-a totally paved planet.”
Source: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
“But my wants are huge, my desires are rapacious, I want love, I want the splendour and violence of love, and I want it now, I want someone of my own.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I shall soon come to doubt whether any part at all is proper.”
Source: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar
“But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.”
Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch
“But my world fell apart, and all they could do, the whole universe, was to silently move on.”
Source: Unexpressed Feelings
“But mysterious caves and tunnels always have luminous fungi, strangely bright crystals or at a pinch merely an eldritch glow in the air, just in case a human hero comes in and needs to see in the dark. Strange but true.”
Source: Men at Arms
“But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.”
Source: The Conflict of Interpretations
“But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence. Hence to demythologize is to interpret myth, that is, to relate the objective representations of the myth to the self-understanding which is both shown and concealed in it.”
Source: The Conflict of Interpretations
“But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.”
Source: Travels on the Amazon
“But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has a rather crude survival kit; and yet -this is the paradox of the human condition - one that fits him to all environments. Among the multitude of animals which scamper, fly, burrow and swim around us, man is the only one who is not locked into his environment. His imagination, his reason, his emotional subtlety and toughness, make it possible for him not to accept the environment but to change it.”
“But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.”
Source: Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossmann, and Letters to Her and to His Friends
“But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.”
“But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.”
Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation
“But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.”
Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!”
“But ne'er the rose without the thorn.”
“But nearly every woman I know has a roughly similar story - in fact, dozens of them: stories about being obsessed with a celebrity, work colleague or someone they vaguely knew for years; living in a parallel world in their head; conjuring up endless plots and scenarios for this thing that never actually happened.”
“But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.”
Source: A Wizard of Earthsea
“But neither art nor aesthetics is alone in being doomed to this melancholy destiny of living not beyond their means, but beyond their ends.”
Source: The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact
“But neither could compare with the gargantuan natural edifice that was the mountain upon which Nachtstürm Castle rose. It was a mountain made of the darkness between two lightning bolts. It was made less of earth than Stygian frost. Whole towns fell away as they ascended, as though the ranks of black and frowning conifers waged war against the humans below. Even the path – rather narrow and rarely straight – seemed less made by centuries of pilgrim feet and more by the trace of some careless demon’s claw.
It was, in fact, perfect.”
Source: Nachtstürm Castle: A Gothic Austen Novel
“But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most primitive and superstitious Arab of the remotest oases, are a little more than kin and never less than kind at their worst; whereas in the United States one is almost always conscious of an instinctive lack of sympathy and understanding with even the most charming and cultured people.”
“But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.”
“But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any random manner, but will perish unless he lives as his nature requires, so he is free to seek his happiness in any mindless fraud, but the torture of frustration is all he will find, unless he seeks the happiness proper to man. The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with their creative powers.”
Source: Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking
“But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.”
Source: Underdogs
“But Neve, you can’t start a book and leave it halfway through,’ he’d said implacably. ‘It’s almost as bad as turning down the corner of the page, instead of using a bookmark.”
Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
“But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.”
Source: Loud and Clear
“But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart”
Source: The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs
“But never had he felt more enthralled than he was right now, sitting beside Evie on a weathered old dock, with a blazing afternoon sun, almost brutal in its clarity, bathing everything in pure light. Sweat trickled down his back and chest from the steamy heat, and his entire body pulsed with life. Even his fingertips throbbed. It took all of his formidable self-control to prevent himself from pushing her down on the dock and spreading her legs for his entry.”
Source: Loving Evangeline
“But never have I been a blue calm sea
I have always been a storm.”
“But never in the four hundred years now since I was born, have I ever seen anything to make me doubt whether God exists in some form or the other. Not even the reflection in the mirror.”
Source: New Moon
“But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.”
“But, nevertheless, if there is even the slightest recognition, liberation is easy. Should you ask why this is so—it is because once the awesome, terrifying and fearful appearances arise, the awareness does not have the luxury of distraction. The awareness is one-pointedly concentrated.”
Source: The Tibetan Book of the Dead
“But nevertheless, what remains - very broadly diffused through the modern British consciousness - is a warmish afterglow generated by a sense that Britain's record in the last two hundred years is on the whole a source of legitimate pride. This in turn nourishes a sense that Britain deserves a special place in the pantheon of the world - that we are not just a small country at the European end of the Eurasian landmass.”
Source: Brexit and the British: Who Are We Now?
“But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf