B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But someone I know is dying--
And though one might say glibly, "everyone is,"
The different pace makes the difference absolute.”
“But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people”
“But someone once described the contrast between a good life and a godly life as the difference between the top of the ocean and the bottom. On top, sometimes it's like glass -- serene and calm -- and other times it's raging and stormy. But hundreds of fathoms below, it is beautiful and consistent, always calm, always peaceful.”
Source: From Ashes to Glory
“But someone who has been busted broke, if they can take care of themselves from that point, they act different. They build their own fires.”
Source: Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder
“But someone who has no peace within can't give another being peace, all they can do is give false hopes that they themselves don't believe.”
Source: An Angel's Calling
“But something about this new philosophy of old age does not sit right with me, I suspect that if I were to take this popularly accepted route, I would miss out on something deeply significant. … I am seriously concerned that on that route I would miss for eternity ever simply being authentically and contentedly old.”
Source: Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life
“but something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was the person with whom she wanted to spend the rest of her life. After a long time, she came to the conclusion that men brought only pain, frustration, suffering and a sense of time dragging.”
“But something cannot be made out of nothing. Dust rose in the air, caught the rays of the sun for a brief moment and sparkled, and then returned to the earth as mere dust.”
Source: You Don't Know Me
“But something had changed in the world that Johnny and I knew. The innocence was lost, and nothing would ever be the same. I heard the words tumbling over and over in my mind. Nothing is ever gonna be the same...Nothing is ever gonna be the same...
And a vision, the kind of postcard that fate sends you, flashed before my eyes. There was death in that vision. There was madness. There was fear. But it was blurred. I couldn't see it clearly. I couldn't see the detail. I didn't know if the death and madness were happening to me, or happening around me. And in a sense, I didn't care. In too many ways of shame and angry regret, I didn't care.”
Source: Shantaram
“But something happened to you when you'd had lots of relationships, meaning lots of breakups as well. At first, it hurt terribly, and you thought you'd never be able to get over it. But then you learned to be circumspect. You were only hurt because the guy had taken away your dream of the relationship. You understood that hurt feelings were really only about ego, about the self-absorbed idea that every man you were with should love you, thay the universe owed you that.”
Source: Lipstick Jungle
“But something he'd come to realize on the roof, leaning out, thinking about what would happen if he leaned too far, was that a boy's life could still matter to himself.”
Source: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
“But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.”
Source: Light in August
“But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.”
Source: A Separate Peace
“But something like this--I want to, no, need to put the photo out into the world, into the universe, as if the second that pictures exists somewhere besides my phone is the moment I'll start to exist, too.”
Source: Felix Ever After
“But something magical happened to me when I went to Reardan. Overnight I became a good player. I suppose it had something to do with confidence. I mean, I'd always been the lowest Indian on the reservation totem pole - I wasn't expected to be good so I wasn't. But in Reardan, my coach and the other players wanted me to be good. They needed me to be good. They expected me to be good. And so I became good. I wanted to live up to the expectations. I guess that's what it comes down to. The power of expectations. And as they expected more of me, I expected more of myself, and it just grew and grew.”
“But something occurred to me as I sped through that dirty shroud of fog, something Vonnegut has been trying to explain to the rest of us for most of his life. And that is this: Despair is a form of hope. It is an acknowledgment of the distance between ourselves and our appointed happiness. At certain moments, it is reason enough to live.”
Source: (Not that You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions
“But something seemed funny,
even strange and surreal.
When she called her friends mouses,
was that right? What's the deal?”
Source: Mia's Mouses
“But something stirred across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks were willing to march across a bridge. And so they [my parents] got together, Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don't tell me I'm not coming home when I come to Selma, Alabama.”
“But something that should have been going on had not gone on: something had not happened.”
Source: The Death Of The Heart
“But something told Malcolm that plumbing made gurgling noises, not stealthy creeping noises.”
Source: Expecting Someone Taller
“But something very bad happened to the news media in the 1980s. Part of it was the 'public diplomacy' pressures from the outside. But part of it was the smug, snotty, sophomoric crowd that came to dominate the national media from the inside. These characters fell in love with their power to define reality, not their responsibility to uncover the facts. By the 1990s, the media had become the monster.”
“But something's missing.”
“But something, somehow, had made all these paths converge. You couldn't find it on a checklist, or work it into the equation. It just happened.”
Source: This Lullaby
“But somethings in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.”
Source: Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
“But sometimes, a little darkness makes the light shine brighter, don’t you think?”
Source: Purgatory
“But sometimes, being silent is the only way to tell the truth.”
Source: Shantaram
“But sometimes children do not connect or reconnect so easily. They may feel so isolated that they retreat into a corner, or come out aggressively with both arms swinging. They may be annoying, obnoxious, or downright infuriating as they try desperately to signal us that they need more connection. These situations call for creating more playtime, not doling out punishment or leaving the lonely child all alone.”
Source: Playful Parenting: An Exciting New Approach to Raising Children That Will Help You Nurture Close Connections, Solve Behavior Problems, and Encourage Confidence
“but sometimes deception is needed not to hurt the ones we care for.”
Source: His Black Wings
“But, sometimes, especially late at night, when only the wind is awake with my thoughts, I feel an urgent need. I think of lacing up my tennis shoes and stepping out the door, already in a half run. I think of running and running forever, until I become part of the night sky. -The Art of Leaving”
Source: Broad River Review
“But sometimes, even a smart woman can have her guilty pleasure moment.
Watching infotainment, it is.”
Source: Restart
“But sometimes even people who care about each other need some time apart.”
Source: Amelia Grey's Fireside Dream
“But sometimes even the sky is dangerous. I look up and see your face in the stars.”
Source: The Art Lover
“But sometimes everything I write
with the threadbare art of my eye
seems a snapshot”
Source: Robert Lowell: a tribute
“But sometimes fate did not offer the choices we preferred, but rather the ones we must accept for lack of better alternatives.”
Source: The Diabolic
“But sometimes his face would change, as if sorrow touched his shoulder, saying, “Had you forgotten me?”
Source: The Persian Boy
“But sometimes I longed for that sense of someone pulling me close, feeling another heartbeat against mine.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“But sometimes I need someone to shine a little light on me, too.”
Source: Let It Snow
“But sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable.”
“But sometimes I wonder if blaming it all on fate isn’t only an excuse. Maybe we say, ‘it was destiny,’ because we’re afraid to admit that we gave up.”
Source: When we were sea and stars
“but sometimes I wonder if she would have cared as much if I had been ugly as well as odd.”
Source: If He Had Been With Me
“But sometimes I'd feel more fulfilled making Christmas cards with the mentally ill.
I want to live and I want to love.
I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of.”
“But sometimes I've felt a little constrained by that idea of who I'm meant to be.”
“But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens.”
Source: Remembrance of Things Past Time Regained
“But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends.”
“But sometimes it doesn’t matter how you get there, it only matters that you do.”
Source: Other Birds
“But sometimes it is necessary to do that which is too much.”
“But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.”
Source: Happy Death
“But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy.”
“But sometimes it's like you just meet someone and you just know that you're totally connected, and this person is, like, your brother - or your sister. Even if they don't, like, recognize it, you feel it. And in a lot of ways it don't matter if they do or they don't see that for what it is - all you can do is put the feeling out there. That's your duty. Then you just wait and see what comes back to you. That's the deal.”
“But sometimes it's necessary to go back before you can go forward, really forward.”