B Quotes
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“But one thing that seems pretty clear when we look at human religion is that it's highly tied in with human culture. So if, as seems to be the case, culture's governing a lot of what whales do, it's perhaps not an unreasonable hypothesis to think that it's got elements of...what I guess you'd call the supernatural.”
“But one thing that we have done in the last four years is we have really put pressure on the leadership of this organization [Al Qaeda]. We have killed a significant number of leaders. We've captured others. Those that remain have to look over their shoulders, they have to be on the run. So that even if we don't manage to kill or capture them all within four years, what we do do is put the kind of pressure on them that makes them focus on their own skins, as opposed to carrying out attacks.”
“But one thing the New Age folks and those who pursue alternative spiritual visions need to be aware of is how easily we can become and at times in my experience are like the religious right.”
“But one thing this doctrine, so clean, so venerable, does not contain: it does nto contain the secret of what the Sublime One himself experienced, he alone among the hundreds of thousands. This is why I am continuing my wanderings not to seek another, better doctrine, because I know there is none, but to leave behind all the teachings and all teachers, and either attain my goal alone or die.”
“But one thing was certain: today, they had regained control of their lives. With the rudder of their life in their hands again, they could now face the world, work, and fight to shape their fate.”
Source: Out of the Lion's Maw
“But one thing you have to understand clearly is that it is the man who longs for domination, and it is the woman who dominates. This is what I call coexistence: live and let live. More than that is all imagination. If you really had known what love is...the basic thing is not to create a relationship. Stand aloof as the pillars of a temple stand aloof, but support the same roof. Don't destroy the individuality of the other, enhance it if you can; otherwise, at least leave it as it is, uninterfered with.”
“But one thing you need to do in the game, is to adapt and adjust your game to what you have been asked to do and also to what your body is telling you to do.”
“But one truth does not displace another. Even apparently contradictory truths do not displace one another. Logic is far too coarse to make the subtle distinctions life demands.”
Source: Selected essays
“But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentive - the word "incentive" here means "an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don't want to do - to read long, dull, and difficult books.”
“But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself out. Especially one wants it if one is tired. Or perhaps what one wants is simply a release from sensation, from all consciousness for ever.”
“But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.”
“But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.”
Source: Poems from Iqbal
“But only a fool claims there is no such thing as love. When you see two young ones taring at each other with dewy eyes, there it is. So thick you can spread it on your brread and eat it. When you see a mother with her child, you see love. When you feel it roil in your belly, you know what it is. Even if you cannot give voice to it in words.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“But only a fool sails into combat with nature”
Source: Pompeii
“But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope.”
Source: A Matter of Class
“but only after our own respective prides slowly melted away, like a lion family ice sculpture being left near those restaurant heaters that a maître d’ was going to have to blame a waiter for so she could keep her job and he could lose his as payback for him dumping her for the ice sculptor.”
Source: The Satyrist...And Other Scintillating Treats
“But only agony, and that has ending;
And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.”
“But only art and music have the power to bring peace.”
“But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.”
Source: Toward Perpetual Peace and Other Writings on Politics, Peace, and History
“But only if after you kill me,
You eat my dead body...
Cook me for a day and night...
Make me into stew.
Afterwards, suck my bones clean.
When my entire body has been eaten by you,
I can finally become your blood and flesh.
Then... I will belong entirely to you...”
“But only if I believe that my directing talents will improve the material I'd be working on. I want to make sure I don't sacrifice beautiful material on the altar of my direction.”
“But only in mad people fear goes on constant night and day, wearing one ditch in the mind that all thoughts must travel in.”
Source: Now in November
“But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.”
“But only someone who is ready for anything and rules nothing out, not even the most enigmatic things, will experience the relationship with another as a living thing and will himself live his own existence to the full.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end.”
“But only when I hear those knocks
Accompanied by that question they all ask,
Curious about how you are,
Does realization dawn with a jolt,
You and I don't talk anymore.”
“But only with the rain and the night could you recognize my light.”
“But Opera Man, I go, "Oh, crap! Why didn't I think of that?" Because I could sing fake opera pretty good.”
“But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality.”
“But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.”
Source: M'Fingal: a modern epic poem, in four cantos
“But optimism dribbles away when horror repeats.”
Source: Spider from the Well
“But Orcs and Trolls spoke as they would, without love of words or things; and their language was actually more degraded and filthy than I have shown it. I do not suppose that any will wish for a closer rendering, though models are easy to find. Much the same sort of talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt, too long removed from good to retain even verbal vigour, save in the ears of those to whom only the squalid sounds strong.”
Source: Lord of the Rings. Trilogy. T. 1. Keepers Rings / Vlastelin Kolets. Trilogiya. T. 1. Khraniteli Koltsa
“But ordinarily you think otherwise: you think if you are silent you will be sad. Ordinarily you think, how can you avoid sadness if you are silent? I tell you, the silence that exists with sadness cannot be true. Something has gone wrong. You have missed the path, you are off the track. Only celebration can give proof that the real silence has happened.”
“But other hordes would come, and other false prophets. Our feeble efforts to ameliorate man’s lot would be but vaguely continued by our successors; the seeds of error and of ruin contained even in what is good would, on the contrary, increase to monstrous proportions in the course of centuries. A world wearied of us would seek other masters; what had seemed to us wise would be pointless for them, what we had found beautiful they would abominate. Like the initiate to Mithraism the human race has need, perhaps, of a periodical bloodbath and descent into the grave. I could see the return of barbaric codes, of implacable gods, of unquestioned despotism of savage chieftains, a world broken up into enemy states and eternally prey to insecurity. Other sentinels menaced by arrows would patrol the walls of future cities; the stupid, cruel, and obscene game would go on, and the human species in growing older would doubtless add new refinements of horror. Our epoch, the faults and limitations of which I knew better than anyone else would perhaps be considered one day, by contrast, as one of the golden ages of man.”
Source: Memoirs of Hadrian
“But other people also 'invite' us to behave like victims, when they complain about the unfairness of life, for example, and ask us to agree, to offer advice, to participate. Be careful. When you join in that game you always end up losing.”
“But other times, a person doesn't even know that they've insulted you or your culture. You must remember: No matter how it comes at you, the impact matters more than the intent.”
Source: All Boys Aren’t Blue
“But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.”
“But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.”
“But our back is to legends and we are coming home. I suppose this is the first taste of it.'
'There is a long road yet,' said Gandalf.
'But it is the last road,' said Bilbo.”
Source: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“But our brokenness is also the source of our common humanity, the basis for our shared search for comfort, meaning, and healing. Our shared vulnerability and imperfection nurtures and sustains our capacity for compassion.”
Source: Just Mercy
“But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy.”
Source: The Journals of Captain John Smith: A Jamestown Biography
“But our country's equivalent of gritty reality is more like "Look out Sarge, he's got a shooter!"”
“But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire.”
“But our desks were never meant to be our altars.”
“But our energies are directed far more toward war. Hypnotized by mutual mistrust, almost never concerned for the species or the planet, the nations prepare for death. And because what we are doing is so horrifying, we tend not to think of it much. But what we do not consider we are unlikely to put right.
Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse.”
Source: Cosmos
“But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy.”
“But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.”
“But our first real fight was also because of music. More specifically, it was because of Toni Braxton.”
Source: Irishman Dies from Stubbornness: Unbelievable Truths Behind the Life That Launched the Viral Obituary of Christopher Clifford Connors
“But our forest is sacred & magical with many unusual creatures & plants.We don’t want people to destroy everything!”
Source: Mikolay and Julia Meet the Fairies