B Quotes
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“But no one asked her
if she was better now,
What did it take for her to write
something that no one cared about?”
Source: Ethereal
“But no-one came here to live an ordinary life. Despite what our somnambulistic, mythless society society tells us — a place stuffed to the gilders with unawake, unthinking folk ruled by shoulds, oughts and have-tos; people who have no understanding of themselves; individuals afraid to acknowledge, let alone live their dreams — you came here to weave your unique essence and vision into the world, thus rendering it magnificent, both for yourself and others.”
Source: Running Into Myself
“But no one came. Because no one ever does.”
“But no one can blink at the fact that in this land, and in other lands across the world, there is an epidemic affecting the lives of millions of youth. It is a sickness that comes of a loss of values, of an abandonment of moral absolutes. The virus which has infected them comes of leaderless families, leaderless schools, leaderless communities. It comes of an attitude that says, "We will not teach moral values. We will leave the determination of such to the individual."”
“But no one can ever say I didn’t sing.”
“But no one can lose sight of what he desires. Even if there are moments when he believes the world and the others are stronger. The secret is this: do not surrender.”
“But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.”
“But no one can predict of a certainty what will happen. And none of it will change how I intend to spend the rest of my life. I will live it on my terms. And you... you can have all of me or nothing. I won't be an invalid any longer. Not even if it means losing you.”
Source: Seduce Me at Sunrise
“But no one can prepare for the worst. The worst doesn't only dash hopes; it tears through everything in ways that are almost meant to hurt, to punish, to shame. Despite my most sobering forecasts, life can still play the cruelest card and scuttle everything—and just when I thought we were sailing past the shoals.”
Source: Enigma Variations
“But no one can rid himself of the preaching clergyman. He is the bore of the age, the old man whom we Sinbads cannot shake off, the nightmare that disturbs our Sunday's rest, the incubus that overloads our religion and makes God's service distasteful.”
“But no one could say he hadn't gotten even. He could not count the field women whom he had sexually degraded and demoralized and in whom he had left his seed so their bastard children would be a daily visual reminder of what a plantation white man could do to a plantation black woman whenever he wanted, nor could he count the black men whom he had made fear his blackjack as they would fear Satan himself, making each of them a lifetime enemy of all white people.”
Source: Jolie Blon's Bounce
“But no one ever bothered to look past his rough exterior, because in reality looks meant more than everyone wanted to admit.”
Source: #Nerd
“But no one ever is allowed in Sleepytown, unless He goes to bed in time to take the Sleepytown Express!”
“But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, "Courage, dear heart," and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan's, and with the voice a delicious smell breathed in her face.”
Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Vol III: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
“But no one frees himself from being in love in three days.”
“But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“But no one has seen a trace of lightbearers in over five hundred years. Somebody wiped them out. Probably our kind, trying to inherit their magic.”
“Probably our kind eating them for dinner,” Finn contributed to the conversation for the first time. “Back then we were slightly more primal.”
“Slightly,” Tanner remarked tongue in cheek.”
Source: Into the Light
“But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government”
“But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see.”
“But no one knows anything about you, and Washington keeps telling everyone you are what you say you are. That's impossible. No one here is what they say they are.”
Source: Finding Karawala
“But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.”
“But no one told me that when you're in the military, they own you.”
“But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.”
Source: Beach Music
“but no one was interested in the facts. They preferred the invention because this invention expressed and corroborated their hates and fears so perfectly.”
Source: Notes of a Native Son
“But no one who is lost has lost one ounce of value to God. Even if you don't have a relationship with him, you have immense value to God.”
“But no one who studies autocratic propaganda believes that fact-checking or even swift reactions are sufficient. By the time the correction is made, the falsehood has already traveled around the world. Our old models never acknowledged the truth that many people desire disinformation. They are attracted by conspiracy theories and will not necessarily seek out reliable news at all.”
Source: Autocracy, Inc.
“But no one will come and save you. No one will take your hand and guide you to a better life. You must create it yourself. You must collect your mentors, dead or alive, and you must accumulate wisdom and knowledge, visions and goals.
You must decide what you want with your life. You must decide who you are trying to be.
This was the year I learned to no longer depend on other people to get by, nor be stubbornly independent without any help from anyone or anything.
This was the year I instead learned to say: you can depend on me. I will be your stability, you can always count on me.
I said it to myself and to others, over and over until I believed it myself, and I made a promise to always know that I can count on myself to simply make things work.
and i will stand like a lighthouse in the storm and repeat over and over
you can depend on me.
This was the year I stopped begging for things to happen, and instead made them happen myself. This was the year I stopped living my life according to someone else’s needs, and instead explored my own.
This was the year I learned to stop begging people to love me. If someone wants to go, let them go. This was the year I learned that every person who shows up in your life is there to teach you a lesson, and they will stay until you have learned what you need to learn. Then they will leave. If you want them to or not, and you must let them. And this was the year I learned that you must dare to leave something or someone completely, leaving that space empty and aching, in order to open up space for something new. And you must know that there is a new lesson and a new person, in a new place with a new life waiting for you.
and this was the year I learned that what’s coming is always better, than what has been.
Don’t hold on to things that are over. Let them go, bravely.”
“But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on improvisation. The rhythms, the personal involvement, all of this is part of the jazz experience.”
“But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.”
Source: The works of William Shakspere. Knight's Cabinet ed., with additional notes
“But no sooner had morning broken than he took hold of his whip and ceremoniously stepped out to address his slaves. Each blow was liberating, it was like unshaking proof of the great lie of God's existence.”
“But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...as if into this one mountain mansion Nature had gathered her choicest treasures.”
“But no, that's memory, not the counterlife. Vincent isn't in the counterlife. He feels it's important to keep the two separate, memory vs. counterlife, but he's been finding the separation increasingly difficult. It's a permeable border.”
“But no. That was analogy rather than homology. What in the humanities they would call a heroic simile, if he understood the term, or a metaphor, or some other kind of literary analogy. And analogies were mostly meaningless — a matter of phenotype rather than genotype (to use another analogy). Most, of poetry and literature, really all the humanities, not to mention the social sciences, were phenotypic as far as Sax could tell. They added up to a huge compendium of meaningless analogies, which did not help to explain things, but only distorted perception of them. A kind of continuous conceptual drunkenness, one might say. Sax himself much preferred exactitude and explanatory power, and why not? If it was 200 Kelvin outside why not say so, rather than talk about witches’ tits and the like, hauling the whole great baggage of the ignorant past along to obscure every encounter with sensory reality? It was absurd.”
Source: Green Mars
“But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.”
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences.”
Source: The Power In Praising God
“But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth? If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.”
Source: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
“But no, what interested him, psychologically speaking, was the sense of continuity itself, the mind's insistence that this was the same Regan he'd known when he was eight; had anything befallen her, the Regan he lost would have been the one who'd perched on the black rocks of the park back then, with all her futures inside.”
Source: City on Fire
“But no words will change my desire / My determination born of love / My will to set my eccentric sight / On an ever exquisite dawn”
“But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.”
“But no work, no home, no health care, no hope--that's the everyday life of millions, billions of people. To me, that's the threat. And climate change is the threat. And war, and drought and famine..."
"OK, so we need security. A secure future."
"No! We need to be free from corporate control that runs the world for the few and ruins it for the rest of us.”
Source: The Gap of Time
“But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.”
“But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.”
“But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.”
“But no, I don't think I'm particularly drawn to the period roles or the medieval roles.”
“But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little better for everybody, especially those who don't have as much good fortune as others.”
“But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.”
“But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.”
“But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.”
Source: Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel
“But Noah, you're not supposed to do this, and I can't let you. So go back to your room." Then smiling softly and sniffling and shuffling some papers on the desk, she says: "Me, I'm going downstairs for some coffee. I won't be back to check on your for a while, so don't do anything foolish." She rises quickly, touches my arm, and walks toward the stairs. She doesn't look back, and suddenly I am alone. I don't know what to think. I look at where she had been sitting and see her coffee, a full cup, still steaming, and once again I learn that there are good people in the world.”
“But nobody can run from their own demons.”
Source: Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary