B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.”
“But sometimes life gives us those rare moments where we do see chance as it’s happening. And in those moments, we have a choice. And sometimes we have to take a risk. And it’s scary. It makes us vulnerable. But I know now it’s worth it.”
Source: Golden
“But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.”
“But sometimes no one said anything & I saw
him, the local paper boy on his route. His beanstalk frame
& fragile bicycle. & I knew: we would be so terribly
happy.”
Source: When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
“But sometimes normal just isn't happening. Sometimes crazy feels too good to resist.”
Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy
“but sometimes one person can hold you up in life, keep you standing, and without that hand to hold, you can find yourself free-falling no matter how strong you used to be, no matter how hard you try to remain steady.”
Source: The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 1: Firefly Lane, True Colors, Fly Away
“but sometimes optimism is the only drug that works. But it’s sadly temporary in its effects.”
Source: Windfall
“But sometimes right in the middle of my work, or in the middle of the rest which, according to the same moralists, I deserve and ought to enjoy, my soul overflows with a bitter inertia, and I'm tired, not of working or of resting, but of me.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.”
Source: Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone
“But sometimes she hated to admit she might be attracted to a guy who wasn't so insistent on being understanding. A guy who admitted to liking guns because it was scientifically proven that just touching one upped a guy's testosterone level.
Just once she wanted to date a guy who was as pro-testosterone as he was pro-estrogen.”
Source: Tinderbox
“But sometimes stuff happens and we find ourselves lost, and suddenly we're standing in a place we don't recognize and can't remember walking-or falling-there, and we're unsure how to get back or if we even want to.”
“But sometimes, talent and empathy fight for the same air. You always found things so easy that your expectations of others got skewed. You never really understood what they can and cannot do.”
Source: The Strength of the Few
“But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.”
“But sometimes the bravest thing a Hero has to do is not fighting monsters and cheating death and witches. It is facing the consequences of his own actions.”
Source: How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel
“But sometimes the division between your world and ours is incomplete; the files grow heads and arms and legs, and that’s a terrible moment, isn’t it?”
Source: Call for the Dead
“But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.”
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)
“But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.”
“But sometimes the night reveals the only truth that time passes and things will never be seen the same again.”
“But sometimes the ones who make the sacrifices move the whole world forward out of darkness, into light.”
Source: Landing
“But sometimes the quest for the right answer keeps us from testing a variety of good ones. In search of the right answer, we assume every answer other than the one we've settled on must be wrong. Forgetting that some things have more than one good answer. I'd like to think for example, that the question, "How can I love Ken?" might have many good answers, rather than one right one.”
Source: A Letter to My Congregation: An Evangelical Pastor's Path to Embracing People Who Are Gay, Lesbian and Transgender in the Company of Jesus
“But sometimes the ugliest ones are the hungriest ones abed.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons
“But sometimes the very things you fall in love with people for, become the things you like least about them, in the end.”
Source: The boy from Maine
“But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.”
“But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not due to any ability of ours to pierce the darkness, it's the world's brief bestowal. The catastrophe of grace.”
Source: Fugitive Pieces
“But sometimes there’s nothing left to do but move on.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“But sometimes they were so caught up in the business of studying and preparing for the afterlife, they failed to live. Death loomed so heavily in their minds that they stopped being able to see anything but this final mystery, this final aspect of life they couldn't understand, couldn't control.
The fear of death can grow so large we let it keep us from living.
Birth and rebirth.
Chaos and order.
Life and death.
Balance.”
Source: The Chaos of Stars
“But sometimes, things are better to just hear. Some questions better left unasked. Some words better left unsaid. Because saying them doesn’t make you matter any less.”
Source: Itsy's Ugly
“But sometimes this hatred broke like a wave, unexplainably collapsing under its own weight, and before it would begin to well up again, she suddenly felt nothing but pure compassion for him, a kindness and forgiveness that almost broke her heart.”
Source: One More Year
“But sometimes to keep Evil from getting in, you have to let Good out.”
Source: The Last Ever After
“But sometimes we crave the love of those we’re afraid to hate.”
Source: Brutal Youth
“But sometimes we encounter people from our past for a reason, and while it may seem uncomfortable at first, perhaps it's precisely what you need. Fate rarely makes mistakes”
Source: Mr. Hunt, I Presume
“But sometimes we make mistakes to learn what matters most.”
Source: He Loves Me
“But sometimes we tell ourselves
the most beautiful lies
just to survive the terrible things
that we are living through.”
“But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.”
“But sometimes what we think is important to remember is better left forgotten because the more we smile at the thought of forgotten memories, the more we allow ourselves to become stuck in the process of letting go and everything in between.”
“But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“But sometimes, when no one is looking, little girls like to do forbidden things.”
“But sometimes, when she'd be all by herself, walking home late in the evening on a crowded street she'd be afraid of her own shadow following her...”
“But sometimes when you put two very different people together, a kind of magic, an alchemy, occurs. Bea said I was like eggs and sugar, and she was flour and butter, and when you mixed us together, we were more than just the combination of our ingredients, we were the whole damn cake.”
Source: Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting
“But sometimes, with a book that takes me in so quickly and doesn't let go, I'm left with a feeling of emptiness. It's like a low-level mourning that I've lost the experience of reading the book for the first time. This is a book hangover.”
Source: The Holiday Switch
“But sometimes you can want something too much, there is always a threshold & a place to fall.”
Source: Controvertibles
“But sometimes you can't figure everything out because you can't ever really understand other people. You can't understand why they do what they do. You just have to accept a little mystery, Ben. People are mysterious, the world is mysterious. You can't know everything. You're not supposed to. This isn't a history book. It's just the world. It's a messy place.”
“But sometimes you cope by wasting time, yes?”
Source: Legendborn
“But sometimes you gotta do stuff you don’t want to do.”
Source: Burned: A House of Night Novel
“But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life.”
Source: I've Got Your Number
“But sometimes you have to make a decision with your heart instead of your head, and that’s what I did. I know I’ve made the right decision even if it takes my brain a little while to catch up to my heart.”
Source: Blue Sky Days
“But sometimes you have to wait for an answer to come to you. Especially when the questions are difficult ones.”
Source: Stargazer
“But sometimes you just have to be your own eyes. You have to see yourself shining and stop waiting for other eyes to see you.”
Source: How to make a bird
“But sometimes you lose. Nothing you can do but admit it. -Eli”
“But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.”
Source: The Storyteller