B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.”
“But respect yourself most of all.”
“But responsibility hardens the heart. It must.”
Source: Parade's End Volume III: A Man Could Stand Up-
“But responsibility likewise falls on the legislators who have promoted and approved abortion laws, and, to the extent that they have a say in the matter, on the administrators of the health-care centers where abortions are performed. In this sense abortion goes beyond the responsibility of individuals and beyond the harm done to them, and takes on a distinctly social dimension. It is a most serious wound inflicted on society and its culture by the very people who ought to be societys promoters and defenders.”
“But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.”
“But resurrection is not just consolation — it is restoration. We get it all back — the love, the loved ones, the goods, the beauties of this life — but in new, unimaginable degrees of glory and joy and strength.”
Source: Walking with God through Pain and Suffering
“But revealing yourself as ignorant apparently gives one extraordinary credibility on the left.”
“But revision is a creative act, not merely an analytical imposition of rules of style on a more creative first draft. That's a myth - that the first draft is more creative and everything after that is ruining creativity.”
“But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social system.”
“But Rhett, you mustn't bring me anything else so expensive. It's awfully kind of you, but I really couldn't accept anything else." "Indeed? Well, I shall bring you presents so long as it pleases me and so long as I see things that will enhance your charms. I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet. And I warn you that I am not kind. I am tempting you with bonnets and bangles and leading you into a pit. Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.”
“But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.”
Source: Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success
“But right now, at the wedding supper, a bigger problem was emerging. Every time G thought about how to break the news to her, he gulped down a cup of ale. And he thought about it a lot. Every time he looked at his new bride. And he looked at her a lot.”
Source: My Lady Jane
“but right now it's Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan all the way.”
“But right now I’m here with you. And I want to know where you are, what you need, and what you want to do.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“But right now we have an advantage of being the number one in music.”
“But ripped out of context, ["Who am I to judge?" phrase] has become an all-purpose filter through which everything else - including the pope's multiple reaffirmations of Humanae Vitae, Paul VI's encyclical on the morally appropriate means of family planning - gets airbrushed out of the picture.”
“But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.”
Source: Lock and Key
“But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live. Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom. Only a person who risks is free. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; and the realist adjusts the sails”
“But River had an impact that far exceeded the number of films he had the chance to make; he seemed like he had the chance to be the brightest light of his generatiom”
Source: Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind
“But Roarke doesn't feel weird about it. He's full of it, the love, I mean. And when he loves me, things that never worked in me did - do. It was easier when they didn't work, but it's better when they do. You know?”
“But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.”
“But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds.”
Source: The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces
“But Rosine had read books . . . so many books ... Her over-excited memory was filling her mind with terrifying
images . . . The very excess of her imaginings forced her
to take a grip on herself.”
Source: Hands of Orlac
“But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.”
“But rules cannot substitute for character.”
“But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn't, and the fallout bleeds right into his life? Whats stronger- the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?”
Source: Perfect Match
“But Russians, in their very nature, it seems, pass quickly from the highest enthusiam to complete dejection and distrust. They yield to their moods quite sincerely and go the whole way, entirely forgetting all moods preceding and opposite. They do not see any contradiction in such behaviour; or, if they do, they readily find excuses for it.”
“But SACRIFICE does not mean 'death' at all. It means MAKING HOLY”
Source: Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning
“But sad as angels for the good man's sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors
“But Sade behaved exactly as if he could not tolerate the possibility that his troubles might be over. He launched immediately into a new bout of provocative debauchery.”
Source: De Sade: A Critical Biography
“But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.”
“But Saeed, Saeed, the children are our only hope!”
“But safe things… they don’t sing.”
Source: YOU DON’T WANT TO DIE: Life Renews in the Depths of Despair
“But Saffy knew about catastrophe. It was arbitrary. A thing descended from nowhere, pointed a bony finger, and smirked. As if to say: I choose you.”
Source: Notes on an Execution
“But," said Candide, "is there not some pleasure to be had in criticising everything and finding fault where others see beauty?"
"You mean," retorted Martin, "to derive pleasure from not experiencing any pleasure?”
Source: Candide
“But, said Lewis, myths are lies, even though lies breathed through silver.
No, said Tolkien, they are not.
...just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.
We have come from God (continued Tolkien), and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming a 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.
You mean, asked Lewis, that the story of Christ is simply a true myth, a myth that works on us in the same way as the others, but a myth that really happened? In that case, he said, I begin to understand.”
Source: J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
“But saints and angels behold that glory of God which consists in the beauty of His holiness; and it is this sight only that will melt and humble the hearts of men, wean them from the world, draw them to God, and effectually change them. A sight of the awful greatness of God may overpower men's strength, and be more than they can endure; but if the moral beauty of God be hid, the enmity of the heart will remain in its full strength. No love will be enkindled; the will, instead of being effectually gained, will remain inflexible. But the first glimpse of the moral and spiritual glory of God shining into the heart produces all these effects as it were with omnipotent power, which nothing can withstand.”
Source: The Religious Affections
“But Sam had always said that coming home to me at the end of every shift was his top priority. So what went wrong?”
Source: A Widow's Awakening
“But Sam turned to Bywater, and so came back up the Hill, as day was ending once more. And he went on, and there was yellow light, and fire within; and the evening meal was ready, and he was expected. And Rose drew him in, and set him in his chair, and put little Elanor upon his lap. He drew a deep breath. ‘Well, I’m back,’ he said”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King
“But Sara has spent enough time in the darkness to know that you often have to remain there for a long time before you’re ready for the light again.”
Source: 'n Duisend stories oor Johannesburg: 'n stadsroman
“But Sarah Weddingtonhad never told me that what I was signing would allow women to use abortions as a form of birth control. We talked about truly desperate and needy women, not women already wearing maternity clothes.”
“But Sasha who after all had no English blood in her but was from Russia where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden, and sentences often left unfinished from doubt as to how best to end them.”
“But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. Poems
“But Satan, the god of all dissension, stirreth up daily new sects, and last of all (which of all other I should never have foreseen or once suspected) he hath raised up a sect of such as teach that the Ten Commandments ought to be taken out of the church, and that men should not be terrified with the law, but gently exerted by the preaching of the grace of Christ.”
“But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.”
“But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization.”
“But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought so great an evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men, yet his spirit arose out of the deep and passed as a shadow and a black wind over the sea, and came back to Middle-earth and to Mordor that was his home. There he took up again his great Ring in Barad-dur, and dwelt there, dark and silent, until he wrought himself a new guise, an image of malice and hatred made visible; and the Eye of Sauron the Terrible few could endure.”
“But say…if I wanted to order fifty doves and release them in the medical wing…”
“That would be a hell no.”
“Just checking!” Bailey said, raising his hands. “Um…do you know if you can get deposits back or…?”
Arne smirked. “Does Nelson have an affinity for doves that I didn’t know about?”
“It’s romance!” Bailey declared. “I can’t not do things for him. He’s so perfect and wonderful, and he gives me cute frowns when I break my face on things. He deserves everything I can give him.”
Source: Dream
“But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!”
Source: Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader
“But say That death be not one stroke, as I supposed, Bereaving sense, but endless misery From this day onward, which I feel begun Both in me, and without me, and so last To perpetuity; ay me, that fear Comes thund'ring back with dreadful revolution On my defenceless head; both Death and I Am found eternal, and incorporate both, Nor I on my part single, in me all Paradise Lost Posterity stands cursed: fair patrimony That I must leave ye, sons; O were I able To waste it all myself, and leave ye none!”
Source: The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton