B Quotes
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“But still, even for a short time, I'd like to be a normal Nakata. Up until now there was never anything in particular I wanted to do. I always did what people told me as best I could. Maybe that just became a habit. But now I want to go back to being normal. I want to be a Nakata with his own ideas, his own meaning.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“But still he remembered wondering, at the age of ten, is it better to be safe or to be free?”
Source: The Laird Takes a Bride
“But still hope.”
“But still I dream that somewhere there must be
The spirit of a child that waits for me.”
Source: The Poet's Journal
“But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, "alright sucker, now what?”
“But still… I sometimes think depression is a disaster of modern life. People have burdened themselves too heavily. They’ve gone into work, into mere survival… not into life itself. So many have lost themselves in endless office hours, in corporate cages… just like you, my little lambkin.”
Source: Where the Dark Knelt
“But still it's like I said, when you hop in a cab in Italy and the guy doesn't speak English, uhh, you know, you have to start pointin' at things. You learn how to deal with it. What I'm tryin' to say is that it's not as convenient as touring in the states or say somewhere like Australia or even England where they speak the same language fluently.”
“But still, JAH is SUPREME!”
“But still my fancy wanders free
Through that which might have been.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931
“But still, my heart beats. It dreams. It wonders. And most dangerous of all, it hopes, because despite its smallness, this hope is still a great something”
Source: Infinite Dolls
“But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.”
Source: The works ¬of William Cowper: Poems : with an essay on the genius and poetry of Cowper
“But still she fled, leaving me battered and bleeding among the remnants of my brother's life, each of her parting footfalls another blow to the dream I'd not deserved, but had foolishly dared to hope for.”
Source: Until the Mountains Fall
“But still she stood, ready to get back at it. Badass and admirable.”
Source: Redemption
“But still, she was perturbed to see the seriousness of his expression.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.”
Source: The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes
“But still there are moments when a brother and sister can lay down their instruments of torture for a moment and speak as civilized human beings and Bruno decided to make this one of those moments.”
Source: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
“But still, this great awakening, this surpassing concern, was never excited by any harangues of terror, but always appeared most remarkable when I insisted upon the compassions of a dying Saviour, the plentiful provisions of the gospel, and the free offers of divine grace to needy distressed sinners.”
Source: The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
“But still try, for who knows what is possible?”
Source: The Life and Letters of Faraday
“But still when the mists of doubt prevail,
And we lie becalmed by the shores of age,
We hear from the misty troubled shore
The voce of children gone before.
Drawing the soul to its anchorage.”
Source: Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist
“But still, everything is for Jesus; so like that everything is beautiful, even though it is difficult.”
“But still, here are the words Despereaux Tilling spoke to his father. He said, "I forgive you, Pa!" And he said those words because he sensed that it was the only way to save his heart, to stop it from breaking in two. Despereaux, reader, spoke those words to save himself.”
“But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.”
“But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie?”
“But still, it looked completely natural, as if we had been kissing at the ends of sentences for ages, while the rest of the world was still hung up on punctuation.”
Source: Change of Heart: A Novel
“But still, I’d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in ever-louder English. I was going to be one of those Americans who traversed Italy with my forehead knit in concentration, divining wordsw from their Latin roots and answering by wedging French cognates into Italian pronunciations spliced onto a standard Spanish verb conjugation.”
“But still, like air, I'll rise”
Source: And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems
“But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete.”
Source: Made from this earth: an anthology of writings
“But stones, too, can lie.”
“But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn’t make them perfect. You try to cherish their virtues and overlook their flaws. The flaws are still there, though. "
"But you don’t get mad. Not like Pop does."
"No, that’s true, I don’t get mad. Not at stories. They do disappoint me sometimes." He looked at the shelves. "Sometimes, they stab me in the heart.”
Source: Lovecraft Country
“But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.”
“But stories somehow lengthen when begun.”
Source: Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose
“But stories that live longest
Are sung above the glass,
And Parnell loved his country
And Parnell loved his lass.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“But strangely, [in] the original Matt Helm books, he's just this super hardass assassin. They sort of made it into a sexy romp for the movies. The books are very, very dark. I also watched 'OSS 117: Cairo, Nest Of Spies,' which is a French film. They just made a second one, I think, which is based on like, 100 novels. They're just fantastic. They're set in the '60s. A lot of the visual inspiration definitely came from 1960 James Bond movies and 'OSS 177' and also 'Pink Panther' movies.”
“But strangers and the poor may pluck for themselves the fruit from my tree: that causes less shame. But beggars should be entirely done away with! Truly, it annoys one to give to them and it annoys one not to give to them.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“But strength is a most greedy mistress. You can never get enough.”
Source: The Strongest Shall Survive
“But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware.”
Source: Promises to keep: Poems. Gedichte
“But stronger than his knowledge was his love for the boy, his devotion, his fear of losing him. Had he ever lost his heart to anybody so completely, so painfully, so hopelessly and yet so happily?”
Source: Siddhartha
“But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured. The miserable companion of thieves and ruffians, the fallen outcast of low haunts, the associate of the scourings of the jails and hulks, living within the shadow of the gallows itself,--even this degraded being felt too proud to betray a feeble gleam of the womanly feeling which she thought a weakness, but which alone conneced her with that humanity, of which her wasting life had obliterated so many, many traces when a very child.”
Source: Oliver Twist
“But stupid things have a gravity and a momentum of their own; they crush good thinking and resistance as colonists with guns and cannons overcame spear-throwing natives.”
Source: Not Quite a Husband
“But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.”
“But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“But success shall crown my endeavours. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracking a secure way over the pathless seas: the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph. Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element? What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?”
Source: Frankenstein: the play
“But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend not to be too guilty about winning.”
“But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.”
Source: The Mastery of Consciousness: An Introduction and Guide to Practical Mysticism and Methods of Spiritual Development
“But such bliss couldn't last forever. At some point paradise would be lost. They would each mature at different rates, take different paths in life. As time passed, an unavoidable sense of unease would develop among them, a subtle fault line, no doubt turning into something less than "subtle.”
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society.”
“But such is life, the silliest proverbs prove to be true, and when a man thinks, now it's all right, it's not all right by a longshot. Man proposes, God disposes, and there's always that last straw to break the camel's back.”
“But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.”
Source: Paine: Political Writings
“But such is the nature of man that as soon as you begin to force him to do a thing, from that moment he begins to seek ways by which he can avoid doing the thing you are trying to force upon him. A man with malaria parasites in his blood is a danger to his companions. To kill all the parasites, he was then required to continue doses of quinine a week or ten days after his fever. When the convalescing men were given their daily dose of quinine they would manage to throw their tablets out of the dispensary window. The old turkey-gobbler pet of the hospital gobbled up all the tablets he could find. He became so dissipated he finally developed a species of blindness caused by too much quinine. I cannot vouch for this, but I was often twitted with this story as an illustration of how the men were treating prophylactic quinine.”
Source: Sanitation in Panama
“But such is the nature of the concept of tolerance. It evolves. Every generation puts its own limitations on it, and the clashes that define a given generation seem in many respects to be over the question of who and what that generation tolerates.”