B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But now, I am addicted to the peace and calm of being alone. There is something so soothing about solitude that I have no urgent wish to give it up and connect with people.”
Source: Dirty Martini
“But now I am beginning to understand we all become tyrants beneath our own roof slates. Or maybe we don't; maybe it's just my father and me—the tyrannical gene I inherited from him.”
Source: A Line Made By Walking
“But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.”
“But now I am six. And I'm clever as clever. And now I think I'll stay six now forever and ever.”
“But now I can see Scythe, leaning against the wall with his hands in his pockets. I grin at him. "Daddy shark do-do-do," I sing. "Daddy shark do-do-do-do.”
Source: Her Rabid Beasts
“But now I can see that there is redemption and beauty in an accident emanating from love.”
Source: Where We Belong: A Novel
“But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at all that it blotted out these sorrows, but that it made them seem glorious and noble, like sad music, and I somehow great and revered for feeling them.”
“But now, I feel like there's something in me that can't stay quiet anymore.
"What I was trying to say is that it reminds me of Einstein's theory of relativity. But obviously[,] Milton isn't talking about the speed of light, he's talking about how the human mind views life."
[....]
"But really, Milton and Einstein were kind of saying the same thing. That everything is subjective in the human mind. Our emotions, our opinions, they're all relative. It all depends on perspective.”
Source: My Heart and Other Black Holes
“But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.”
“But now I give in, let the anger surge. I'm sick of people acting like this world, this other world is the normal one, while I'm the freak. It's not fair; like all the rules have suddenly changed and somebody forgot to tell me.”
Source: Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem
“But now I had these people in front of me, who loved me. Think about how heart-pounding it was for a kid like me. That's when I understand everything, like 'Oh, I have the duty to do what these people want.'
-Suga”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“But now I have a child, and it's the best thing in the world.”
“But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television.”
“But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the secrets of eternity.”
“But now I have learned to listen to the silence,
To hear its choirs singing the songs of ages,
Chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the the secrets of eternity."
- Kahlil Gibran, My Soul Counselled Me”
Source: Prose Poems
“But now I knew that my love for her was as real as the blood on my hands.”
Source: Drowning in Stars
“But now I knew that true love was above all that and that it would be better to die than to fail to love.”
“But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.”
Source: The Time Traveler's Wife
“But now I know how large the world is... Well. I suppose I have grown to large out of my faction. As a consequence.”
“But now I know I was simply not cut out for life without her. I am living that life now and would not choose it.”
Source: Truth & Beauty
“But now I know that a twinkling star is just
a satellite, another man-made thing
not quite as far away as the stars, though far enough
to see the world as a whole. Far enough
to see the hurricane somewhere out
in the Atlantic, spinning itself into nothingness,
dissipating under its own destructive power.
Far enough to see who still has electricity
and who doesn't, and yet far enough to not see
me standing in my doorway. Far enough
to not see itself reflected in the water. I toss
the bottle into the flooded street, watch
the ripples, the way the movement makes
the stars reflections waver, twinkle,
all becoming satellites, watchers, until a new
flickering catches my eye...”
Source: Before Snowfall, After Rain
“But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.”
“But now I know that there is no killing A thing like Love, for it laughs at Death. There is no hushing, there is no stilling That which is part of your life and breath. You may bury it deep, and leave behind you The land, the people that knew your slain; It will push the sods from its grave, and find you On wastes of water or desert plain.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“But now I'm home
Right where I belong
And I cannot stay strong
And in my mind
It's what I deserve all along
Just let me go
I'm trapped within my home
They left me all alone
It's all I know
And as my fear grows
It's where I call my home”
“But now I’m standing here today knowing that I have everything I’m ever going to need. You are my family.”
“But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.”
“But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.”
“But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project.”
“But now I rejoice when, in my winter studio, I can spread out my summer studies and recall through them the beautiful season and places which gave them being. Here the painter feels how small things may suggest the greater - the drop of water, image the firmament.”
“But now I remember: I am mentally ill. Properly, officially. And cannot be held responsible for my actions, my words.”
Source: A Line Made By Walking
“But now I remember, of course, I'm never going to be old.”
Source: A Line Made By Walking
“But now I salute you who follow me,
It is my time to stand at ease ... content.”
“But now I saw a battered hardback on the nightstand next to Mari, the cover a yellow like summer sunshine. I picked it up like I was a burglar and it was a ruby in a bank vault, then found myself smiling at the familiar wide-eyed bear in his floppy hat.
I sat back down and opened A Bear Called Paddington, looking for the beginning as familiar and sweet as marmalade sandwiches, Mr. and Mrs. Brown meeting the stowaway bear on the railway platform.”
Source: Love Walked In
“But now I saw the emotional landscape quite differently—more like the pointillism of a Seurat painting: each color made up of many other colors. Look closely, and it’s dots. Stand back, and it’s an afternoon on the lake—all the colors relying on each other for texture and meaning.”
Source: How to Walk Away
“But now I saw with fresh conviction that is was us, all of us, who were failing, and the hallmark of our failure was the way we ate with our heads down, hungrily, quickly, because there was nothing else to do at the table”
Source: A Thousand Acres
“But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!”
Source: Two Tudor
“But now I think he was trying to teach me to never feel entitled because life can be a cruel bitch at times.”
Source: Misadventurous
“But now I understand something more fully that I once only understood abstractly. I see how utterly ridiculous it is to think that the state can be the right means to help those who are poor or living at the margins of society. The state is their enemy, as it is for everyone else.”
Source: Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo
“But now I want to say things that comfort me and that are a little free. For example: Thursdat is a day transparent as an insect's wing in the light. Just as Monday is a compact day. Ultimately, far beyond thought, I live from these ideas, if ideas is what they are. They are sensations that transform into ideas because I must use words. Even just using them mentally. The primary thought thinks with words.”
“But now I wanted nothing more than to be the girl so free that fireflies shined as her night-lights, cicadas sang her symphonies, and the forest stood as her cathedral.”
Source: The Last Carolina Girl
“But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.”
“But now I wonder--what if everyone is pretty much the same and it's just a thousand small choices that add up to the person you are? No good or evil, no black and white, no inner demons or angels whispering the right answers in our ears like it's some cosmic SAT test. Just us, hour by hour, minute by minute, day by day,making the best choices we can. The thought is horrifying. If that's true, then there's no right choice. There's only choice.”
Source: Black Heart
“But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa.”
“But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.”
“But now in our 20th century, we have come to the time for harvest, "a conclusion of a system of things, and the reapers are angels"!”
Source: Let your Kingdom Come
“But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance.”
“But now inquiry is being made concerning these issues. First, can any believer enlist in the military? Second, can any soldier, even those of the rank and file or lesser grades who neither engage in pagan sacrifices nor capital punishment, be admitted into the church? No on both counts.”
“But now, inside the gallery, something happens to him. He finds his emotions gripped by the paintings, the huge, colorful canvases by Diego Rivera, the tiny, agonized self-portraits by Frida Kahlo, the woman Rivera loved. Fabien barely notices the crowds that cluster in front of the pictures.
He stops before a perfect little painting in which she has pictured her spine as a cracked column. There is something about the grief in her eyes that won't let him look away. That is suffering, he thinks. He thinks about how long he's been moping about Sandrine, and it makes him feel embarrassed, self-indulgent. Theirs, he suspects, was not an epic love story like Diego and Frida's.
He finds himself coming back again and again to stand in front of the same pictures, reading about the couple's life, the passion they shared for their art, for workers' rights, for each other. He feels an appetite growing within him for something bigger, better, more meaningful. He wants to live like these people. He has to make his writing better, to keep going. He has to.
He is filled with an urge to go home and write something that is fresh and new and has in it the honesty of these pictures. Most of all he just wants to write. But what?”
Source: Paris for One
“But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one year later than last year. Every now is labeled with its date, rendering all past nows obsolete, until — later of sooner — perhaps — no, not perhaps — quite certainly: it will come.”
“But now--it's like God has it out for us. Why both of them? Wasn't my dad enough? It's like death came and punched us square in the face.”
Source: Slammed