B Quotes
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“But new details drawn from government documents and interviews show that senior White House aides were given information at the time suggesting that a prostitute was an overnight guest in the hotel room of a presidential advance-team member - yet that information was never thoroughly investigated or publicly acknowledged.”
“But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.”
Source: Madness: A Bipolar Life
“But night would come and with it the mountain moon and the lake would be moon - laned and I'd go out and sit in the grass and meditate facing west, wishing there were a Personal God in all this impersonal matter.”
“But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense.”
“But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my" thoughts and actions---were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that "I make them"; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of opposites.”
Source: Psychotherapy East & West
“But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are so many out there that need our help?”
Source: Crux
“But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.”
Source: 5 Complete Novels of Murder and Detection
“But no city-state ever solved the problem of incorporating new territories and new populations into its existing structure, or involving really large numbers of people in its political life (p. 11)”
Source: On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State
“But no customer is going to buy based on their existing wage structure.”
“But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.”
Source: The Virginian (Cortero Pantheon Edition)
“But no good comes of giving away pieces of our heart in the midst of a war." Pere Clément waited until she looked up and met his eye. "It's dangerous, Eva."
Eva knew then that he wasn't just talking about the children. She thought of Rémy, whom she'd been seeing less of lately as he became more involved in running errands for the underground. "It's more dangerous not to, I think.”
Source: The Book of Lost Names
“But no guy was worth being a girl guys cheated with.”
Source: Solving for Ex
“But no: he was empty, he was confronted by a vast anger, a desperate anger, he saw it and could almost have touched it. But it was inert - if it were to live and find expression and suffer, he must lend it his own body. It was other people's anger. "Swine!" He clenched his fists, he strode along, but nothing came, the anger remained external to himself.”
Source: The age of reason
“But no, I was out for stars:
I would not come in.
I meant not even if asked,
And I hadn't been.”
Source: A Witness Tree
“But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.”
Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
“But no longer could I aks God what to do, since the answer, I was sure, would not suit me. I could do what suited me know, as long as I could pay for it. 'As long as I could pay for it.' That phrase soon became the tail that wagged my dog. If I had died then, it should have been my epigraph.”
“But no man has a monopoly of conscience.”
“But no man has ever truly escaped his destiny. Jonah always goes to Nineveh.”
Source: Winter in Deglendark Valley
“But no man's a hero to himself.”
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel
“But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes”
“But no matter for that, you can be tolerably happy, perhaps, notwithstanding; but as for guessing how happy I am, or knowing anything about the matter,--- O! its quite beyond what you can understand.”
Source: The Italian or the Confessional of the Black Penitents
“But no matter how big the effort to push a propaganda line might be, climate change is bigger. This, undoubtedly and regrettably, is the biggest immediate long-term environmental challenge we face. A failure to concretely come to some policy outcome on climate change has not only a negative environmental impact but also social and economic consequences for us.”
“But no matter how carefully we schedule our days, master our emotions, and try to wring our best life now from our better selves, we cannot solve the problem of finitude. We will always want more. We need more. We are carrying the weight of caregiving and addiction, chronic pain and uncertain diagnosis, struggling teenagers and kids with learning disabilities, mental illness and abusive relationships. A grandmother has been sheltering without a visitor for months, and a friend's business closed its doors. Doctors, nurses, and frontline workers are acting as levees, feeling each surge of the disease crash against them. My former students, now serving as pastors and chaplains, are in hospitals giving last rites in hazmat suits. They volunteer to be the last person to hold his hand. To smooth her hair.
The truth if the pandemic is the truth of all suffering: that it is unjustly distributed. Who bears the brunt? The homeless and the prisoners. The elderly and the children. The sick and the uninsured. Immigrants and people needing social services. People of color and LGBTQ people. The burdens of ordinary evils— descriminations, brutality, predatory lending, illegal evictions, and medical exploitation— roll back on the vulnerable like a heavy stone. All of us struggle against the constraints places on our bodies, our commitments, our ambitions, and our resources, even as we're saddled with inflated expectations of invincibility. This is the strange cruelty of suffering in America, its insistence that everything is still possible.”
Source: No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
“But no matter how good the beer, how many honors or awards, how innovative Goose Island would ever be again, someone deep in the crowd would always boo.”
Source: Barrel-Aged Stout and Selling Out: Goose Island, Anheuser-Busch, and How Craft Beer Became Big Business
“But no matter how hidden it may be, each of us has been given the capacity to overcome fear and apathy in order to play a heroic part in the scenes of life.”
Source: Finding God in The Lord of the Rings
“But no matter how many fish in the sea, itd be so empty without me.”
“But no matter how many movies we watched, we never learned their deepest lesson: they end. George Bailey finally sees his life as wonderful. Rosebud, we find out, is a sled. Travis shoots Old Yeller. One of the things that distinguishes life from movies is the pause button. We can keep Travis' finger on the trigger, the barrel staring down his Yeller, but there is no pause button for the things that matter.”
Source: Paper Heart: Love Stories
“But no matter how many times we re-rank the presidents, in another 200 years, the top presidents will still be Washington and Lincoln and Jefferson, because they defined what a president is. They are the idea, and you can't be better than the idea.”
“But no matter how much evil I see, I think it’s important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness.”
Source: To the Survivors: One Man's Journey as a Rape Crisis Counselor with True Stories of Sexual Violence
“But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.”
Source: Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
“But no matter how they make you feel, you should always watch elders carefully. They were you and you will be them. You carry the seeds of your old age in you at this very moment, and they hear the echoes of their childhood each time they see you.”
Source: Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Women, Life and Love
“But no matter. Mrs. Protheroe is met at the studio by Mr. Redding. They go in together — and, human nature being what it is, I'm afraid they realise that I shan't leave the garden till they come out again!"
I had never liked Miss Marple better than at this moment, with her humorous perception of her own weakness.”
Source: Murder at the Vicarage
“But no matter the medicinal virtues of being a true friend or sustaining a long, close relationship with another, the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self: the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.”
Source: Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
“But no matter what choices we make - solo or together - our finish line remains the same … No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end.”
Source: They Both Die at the End
“But no matter what else happens, this one thing my mom has always had a weakness for--- Monster Cake. A perilous invention from childhood, the day Paige and Mom and I decided to test the limits of our rinky-dink oven with a combination of Funfetti cake mixed with brownie batter, cookie dough, Oreos, Reese's Cups, and Rolos. The result was so simultaneously hideous and delicious that my mom fashioned googly eyes on it out of frosting, and thus, Monster Cake was born.”
Source: Tweet Cute
“But no matter what happens, I spoke up, made a voice for myself, freed from the haunting memories that have owned me for the last six years. I found my courage.”
Source: The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.”
Source: The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
“But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have ot believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after. That's why I write these songs. Because I think love is FEARLESS.”
“But no matter what my eyes report, there is beauty that lives under the skin, under the surface, under the standards set up for me by outside arbiters of what is good and true. Those arbiters are not always so reliable. They can be bought and sold. They can be marketed and manufactured. The real standards, the ones set forth by the One who made me, are solid, knitted into me at my beginning. This beauty is true and real, and it lives within the heart. It is my heart that must be trained to recognize this beauty.”
Source: Garden in the East: The Spiritual Life of the Body
“But no matter what the outcome, how the friends turn out in the end, it should not stop you from making new friends. Once bitten, twice shy should not be applied to friendship.”
“But no matter what they burned or destroyed, they couldn’t reach what was inside our hearts. The flower may die, but the shadow still remains.”
Source: The Stories of Our Lives: A Short Story Collection
“But no matter what they did, the sultan always used their time together to share with her the business of running the kingdom, the rewards and judgements he'd handed down during the week. It occurred to Jasmine now, as she awoke on her first Friday without him, that he had been preparing her. Every time he'd told her the reasons for one decision or another, whether he'd said yes or no to a subject's plea, he was giving Jasmine a road map to follow when it was her turn to rule.
He believed I could do it. And if he believed... then so do I.”
Source: Realm of Wonders
“But no matter what was going on in our lives, I could imagine lying beside her in bed at the end of the day, holding her while we talked and laughed, lost in each other's arms”
“But no matter where I went, what I was running from would still be with me—Kat. She wasn’t just back in the house, in that bed. She was with me now, inside me. And there was no outrunning that.”
Source: Obsidian
“but no matter who or what i was, i would have been yours”
Source: Ruin and Rising
“But no medium can capture what it is to be in someone's presence, certainly not someone like her. Someone who makes you feel important simply because she's choosing to look at you.”
Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“But no, Miss Rigor Mortis, the mother of all potters, had moulded her face into the face of the immortal.”
Source: Rosie: An Old Castle Novel
“But no name has ever equaled the odd name of Triplebippleabbledabblekadupledop Smith...”
Source: Mr. Smith and His Delicious Ice Cream: A Bluster County Tale
“But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.”
“But no, now I see I never meant to Ben what Ben meant to me. If there was anything I said which resonated in return, he found a better speech elsewhere. My romance went no further than his coat.”
Source: A Line Made By Walking