B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But nobody else ever romped with White Fang. He did not permit it. He stood on his dignity, and when they attempted it, his warning snarl and bristling mane were anything but playful. That he allowed the master these liberties was no reason that he should be a common dog, loving here and loving there, everybody's property for a romp and good time. He loved with single heart and refused to cheapen himself or his love.”
Source: White Fang
“But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the passing of time, yet happy ones could never be recreated - not with the same joy. Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.”
Source: A Fine Balance
“But nobody ever says it. Does it make it easier to live with loss if you don't name it? Or is that something you do as a mercy for other people?”
Source: The Map of Salt and Stars
“But nobody ever tells you in advance when you should concentrate on the good times-that's why you're supposed to do it every day.”
Source: After Ever After
“But nobody has ever yet called a philosopher "a hired conscience," though everybody gives the lawyer this nickname. Why this partiality?”
Source: All Things are Possible
“But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.”
“But nobody laughed nearly as hard as Valerie. Held in her hand, for future ammunition, was the perfect shot of this historical moment of time. Tucking it into her backpack, she innocently joined the girls to tell them it was time to go. Smiling secretly to herself, she thought I’ve got you now, Mabes!”
Source: The Adventures of George and Mabel: Based on an Almost (Kind of? Sort of? Could Be?) True Story
“But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.”
“But nobody wanted to speak on the true disposition of the world. And no one wanted to hear it...
The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the Freeman had fled theirs. But the ideals they held up for themselves, they denied others. Cora had heard Michael recite the Declaration of Independence back on the Randall plantation many times, his voice drifting through the village like an angry phantom. She didn't understand the words, most of them at any rate, but created equal was not lost on her. The white men who wrote it didn't understand it either, if all men did not truly mean all men. Not if they snatched away what belonged to other people, whether it was something you could hold in your hand, like dirt, or something you could not, like freedom.”
Source: The Underground Railroad
“But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China.”
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
“But none of that matters. When I see you, I remember that you made me want to drown rather than be myself.”
Source: Unlocked
“But none of us are called to sacrifice others to safeguard ourselves, no matter how important we may seem. The proper position of leadership is in front, partaking in the dangers of the lowliest of soldiers. This is what Jesus did, and it is the height of foolishness. May we, in our weakness, be granted to access such heights.”
Source: Tolkien's Ordinary Virtues: Exploring the Spiritual Themes of the Lord of the Rings
“But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.”
Source: The Venture of Rational Faih
“But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.”
Source: Sacred cows-- and other edibles
“But Noodynaady's actual ingrate tootle is of come into the garner mauve and thy nice are stores of morning and buy me a bunch of iodines.”
Source: Finnegans Wake
“But normally when you talk to yourself [on court] you say; 'I love you, you're a good guy, but don't miss next time, okay.'”
“But . . . not all bad things are bad for you, and not all good things are good.”
Source: Age of Empyre
“But not all books must be universally approved or applauded to bring meaning; books are, ultimately, the most personal of media. They can be important to only one person or to only a few people, and yet because of that they still have tremendous influence.”
Source: Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children's Book: Life Lessons from Notable People from All Walks of Life
“But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“But not all Gaza residents were committed to the war. A reporter asked one of the Arabs what he most wanted. He was a taxi driver, father of ten. All he wanted was 'to eat and to work.' What did he think of Nasser? 'Nasser is good, Israel is good, America is good, Britain is good, Canada is good, India is good, Anything is good.”
Source: Six Days In June: Israel's Fight For Survival
“But not all jobs go smoothly, even if you know what you're doing. All you can say is you try and cope, whatever happens. Shit always happens.
Especially when you're just starting out.”
Source: Emergency Admissions
“But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood, restless harbingers of violence and bloodshed, knowing no other path....”
“But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.”
Source: A Witch Shall Be Born: American modern Literature
“But not all of them are decorated to the same level of taste.”
“But not all scars showed, did they?”
Source: Mortal Ties
“But not devotion alone marks this great One who is climbing his divine path. He must also be, as I´shvara is, a lover of humanity. Unless within him there burns the flame of love for men—nay, men, do I say? it is too narrow—unless within him burns the flame of love for everything that exists, moving and unmoving, in this universe”
Source: Avatâras Four lectures delivered at the twenty-fourth anniversary meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, December, 1899
“But not even Mrs Underhill’s evident admiration reconciled him to the prospect of dining in her house. He described her as a vulgar mushroom, and wondered that his cousins should not have kept her at a proper distance.”
Source: The Nonesuch
“But not everyone you love is a forever. Sometimes you can love someone for a reason, and for a time, and although you never stop loving them, no matter how much they may betray you, you move on, because they aren't the one who makes you into an us.”
Source: Lies I Live By
“But not everything is normal. After all, there's no indictation that religion exits here. Granted, I've only been at camp for a day, so maybe I just need to be patient. However, so far there have been no calls for prayer and no public sermons. I haven't seen anything that indicates which god — if any— these people believe in. The only signs of religion that I have seen are the few religious items that people wear on themselves. Other than that, it's as though God doesn't exist.”
Source: War
“But not forgiving yourself often becomes the root of severe self-loathing extreme self hatred and intense inhibitions. It will be next to impossible to truly start over when you feel unforgivable.”
Source: When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present: Getting Beyond Fears That Hold You Back
“But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?”
Source: The poetry of Robert Frost
“But not hurting people and knowing how to get along with people, ... they're different.”
“But not just alive like I was yesterday and the day before. Alive like I knew I was alive. Like I could feel the breaths coming into my chest. And I knew I was the person inside my own body.”
Source: We Were Here
“But not knowing how to fix something isn’t an excuse not to try.” - J. Elle, Wings of Ebony”
Source: Wings of Ebony
“But not like this: not with the house just an afterimage, and my mom a spirit, and my dad...recycled." "Carter Kane, Chapter 41”
“But not me, baby, I've got you to save me.”
“But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.”
Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics
“But not to know error is to lie, is to spit up poison through the harrowing margins of weakened mineral campaigns. It is the deeply filtered and the wretched who deny this, who test themselves with exoteric perfection, who turn their branded melodias to simple outward gain. In contrast to the rotation of immensity, to the treble glare of inward cyclical rarity, such outward wit carries less than the power of negation.”
Source: Towards the Primeval Lightning Field
“But not to our Muffin.”
Source: The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“But not to the dreadful extent that I do, Pa. O-o!" cried Bella, screwing the exclamation out of herself with a twist of her dimpled chin. "I AM so mercenary!"
With a wistful glance R. W. said, in default of having anything better to say: "About when did you begin to feel it coming on, my dear?”
Source: Our Mutual Friend
“But not too much pain, am I right? Not too much, never too much. If it was too much, you wouldn't know what to do with me, would you? Too much would make you uncomfortable. Bored. My crying would leave a bad taste. That would just be bad theatre, wouldn't it? A bad show. You want a good show. They all do. A few pretty tears on my cheeks that you can brush away. Just a delicate little bit of ouch so you know there's someone in there. So you don't get too scared of me, am I right? So you know I'm still a vulnerable thing. That I can be brought down if I need be.”
Source: All's Well
“But not us! An' why? Because... because I got you
to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.”
Source: Of Mice and Men
“But nothin' can stop you from wishin'.”
“But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.”
“but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.”
Source: Embryoyo
“But nothing could assuage the unconscious fury of our new and tragic understanding, our sense of having been cheated, our fear, for, however we looked for it, we could not find a fit object for our disgust and despair, and so we attacked everything in our way with an equal and infinite passion…”
Source: The Melancholy of Resistance
“But nothing could change the memory of love…
I wondered, does falling in love go through the eyes, or through the heart? If somebody asked me after a while, when it was all over, “What are you carrying with you?” I would answer, “Her.” I didn’t want to have anything else. I didn’t need anything else. Afterwards they called me The Devil, the master of lies, the one who bought and sold souls, the one with countless faces. They were right. I was taking the soul, bringing out all that was hidden there, deep inside, or behind countless masks, tempting it to come out into the light, tricking it into sucking up and showing itself.”
Source: The Devil I Know Him
“But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.”
Source: Freedom: A Novel
“But nothing ever put 'Hoppy' in the shade. No one could fail to recognize in the little figure... the authentic gold of intellectual inspiration, the Fundator et Primus Abbas of biochemistry in England.”