B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But that's the thing about judgment, if you give your initial opinion of someone too much weight and accept it as fact before really taking the time to really get to know someone, you risk missing out on a lot.”
Source: Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded
“But that’s the thing about narcissists. They can try to fool you, with all their heart, but in the end, they’re just fooling themselves.”
Source: And then the Devil Cried: Episode Two
“But that’s the thing about words. Once you’ve said them, there’s no going back.”
Source: Hush
“But that's the thing, how you feel about the place that's home. About its sky, its air, its smell, the color of the light, the way the rain falls (or doesn't), whether it hot or cold.”
“But that's the thing with death. The whisper of it descent travels fast and wide, and people must've know I'd become a corpse because nobody even came to view the body.”
Source: Where She Went
“But that's the thing with fear: reality often doesn't matter; it's all in the perception.”
Source: Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear
“But that's the tricky thing about love. If you aren't the type to walk away, and you aren't the kind of person who moves on quickly, you subsequently become the one who stays.”
Source: Westcott High
“But that’s the trouble with moments—they end." ~Narrator”
Source: Lichgates
“But that's the Way, and there is no other. And once his mind's made up, the trembling and aimless walking stops, and he can look doom in the face without flinching. ("Jane Brown's Body")”
Source: The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
“But that’s the way life is; felicity and expiation play together in the narrow lanes of life like bosom friends, inseparable. You find one, and the other is always around the corner.”
Source: Half A Shadow
“But that’s the whole problem, you’ve never felt called to any one thing. There is no violent push in one direction, but a softer nudge a hundred different ways, and now all of them feel out of reach.
Blink and you’re twenty-eight, and everyone else is now a mile down the road, and you’re still trying to find it, and the irony is hardly lost on you that in wanting to live, to learn, to find yourself, you’ve gotten lost.”
Source: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“But that's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and worth the doing.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“But that’s what happens. Once the human tragedy has been completed, it gets turned over to the journalists to banalize into entertainment. Perhaps it’s because the whole irrational frenzy burst right through our door and no newspaper’s half-baked insinuating detail passed me by that I think of the McCarthy era as inaugurating the postwar triumph of gossip as the unifying credo of the world’s oldest democratic republic. In Gossip We Trust. Gossip as gospel, the national faith. McCarthyism as the beginning not just of serious politics but of serious everything as entertainment to amuse the mass audience. McCarthyism as the first postwar flowering of the American unthinking that is now everywhere.”
Source: I Married a Communist
“But that’s what He does. Waits until the darkness seems too deep to be overcome, and then, here comes the light.”
Source: My Soul is Satisfied
“But that’s what it’s like being a Millennial in a Boomer’s world. There’s always someone else pulling the strings.”
Source: A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir
“But that’s what pack is for. To pick us back up when we fall.”
Source: Brothersong
“But that’s what they do with everything inconvenient in history— either label it as some freak event, or as irrelevant surface details. The only reason their theories even seem consistent is that they’ve presented a version of history rendered into reductive pap, with more lies of omission than facts. They simply can’t allow themselves to acknowledge that history’s basically nothing but messy absurdities, and that there is no inevitable path to it. Every shape will fit into a round hole if you carve it and hammer it enough.”
Source: The Siege of Skyhold
“But that's when life starts gettin good, right? When it's messy.”
Source: Summer on the Short Bus
“But that's why you pay for insurance, right? If you never file a claim, then they've beaten you.”
Source: How To Talk To A Widower
“but that shadow self of hers wasn't so sure. The ugly, toxic thought was smaller than a drop of blood, yet it poisoned the entire stream.”
Source: Firefly Lane
“But that slip of paper wouldn't disappear, ever, and neither would the image of his prostrate wife, and neither would the thought that if he could, it might greatly improve his life to end it.”
“But that slippery slope is already rearing its head . . . .”
Source: Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
“But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who try to to keep civilization alive.”
Source: The White Goddess
“But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?”
“But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing else than organized systems of plunder and oppression.”
Source: An Essay on the Trial by Jury
“But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.”
Source: Political Economy
“but that thing we do as a defense when we're scared of losing something… that’s often why we end up losing things”
Source: she's flowers and fire
“But that was all bravado. Already - how had it come about so quickly - desire had begotten need. A few whispered words (perhaps he didn't mean them) and I was ready to follow. It was worse to think of staying behind, to grind one day upon another. Nothing to hold me here. None to regret my leaving, save Az.”
Source: Firethorn
“But that was another Mildred, that was a Mildred so deep inside this one, and so bothered, really bothered, that the two women had never met.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“But that was at night, with no one around. I'm a different Lily there. I'm--I'm guerrilla poet Lily--and in the daytime, in front of everyone, I lose her.”
“But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival room buried in a house itself becoming one big coffin.”
Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel
“But that was Isabelle — if there was a boy around and blame that needed to be pinned on someone, Isabelle would pin it on him”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“But that was just a shadow of what would come to pass:
When one appointed season Christ came to die at last.
And in the name of justice they flogged him like a thief,
But willing was the victim of human disbelief.”
Source: Sewing Figs
“But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.”
“But that was life: Nobody got a guided tour to their own theme park. You had to hop on the rides as they presented themselves, never knowing whether you would like the one you were in line for...or if the bastard was going to make you throw up your corn dog and your cotton candy all over the place.”
Source: Crave
“But that was my very first time on a set and they said, you know, you have to stand on a mark. That little piece of tape that you stand on is called a mark. I kept correcting them and telling them that my name was Michael and not Mark. They said, 'No, no honey.' I was a little green.”
“But that was one of the perks of being higher-ranking; you could tell your juniors to cut back on the courtesy, while simultaneously being offended if you felt they were being too rude. A win-win situation, for the people on top.”
Source: The Lost Plot
“But that was only a shape I had been poured into. I did not have to keep it.”
Source: Circe
“But that was still the problem. When you loved someone, eventually that person would be wrenched away from you. Either now or when you were both gray and wrinkled - or any moment in between.”
Source: Rocky Mountain Journey
“But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.”
Source: It's Hard to Talk about Yourself
“But that was the confusing part: the very thing that made life worthwhile again—discovering that she cared about these other people—was what made her go to her death. [...] The thing that made life worth continuing was what made it worth ending. This, of course, was stupid, but she couldn't help that.”
Source: The Princess, the Crone, and the Dung-cart Knight
“But that was the cruelty of fate, whether you were dying at sea or simply trying to get through high school. Sometimes fate kissed you. Sometimes it snubbed you. Sometimes it passed you a love note, and that note was a lie.”
“But that was the least of it. He knew the worst of her, and that was better.”
Source: Unbecoming
“But that was the nature of relationships: there always seemed to be an imbalance of one sort or another.”
Source: The Only Story
“But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.”
“But that was the thing about zero. Its weakness. Even if zero had taken over the entire universe, the biggest fascist of all, one tiny gesture could deny it. One footprint, one atom. You didn't have to be a genius. You didn't even have to know that was what you were doing. You made a mark. You changed something. It said, "A human being passed here." And changed zero to one.”
“But that was the thing: sometimes being a sister meant knowing the right thing to do and still not doing it because winning was more important.”
Source: The Most Fun We Ever Had
“But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did.”
“But that was the trouble with this world--at heart, it was childish.”
Source: Inkdeath