B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But the thing with us was, we didn’t really need anyone to make us world famous – we were already halfway there.”
“But the things is, you see, that two people can never actually become one no matter how close they are. And it would not be desirable even if it were possible. What would happen when one of them died? It would leave the other as a half a person, and that would be a dreadful thing. We must each be a whole person and therefore we each need some privacy to be alone with ourselves and our own feelings.”
“But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.”
Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
“But the thought arrived inside her like a train: Marya Morevna, all in black, here and now, was a point at which all the women she had been met—the Yaichkan and the Leningrader and the chyerti maiden; the girl who saw the birds, and the girl who never did—the woman she was and the woman she might have been and the woman she would always be, forever intersecting and colliding, a thousand birds falling from a thousand oaks, over and over.”
Source: Deathless
“But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported by think tanks that increasingly function as public-relations agencies, conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics.”
“But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.”
Source: 1984
“But the thought of moving on from something I never had is depressing.”
Source: When It Happens
“But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.”
“But the three-day pattern--Friday's tragedy, Saturday's despair, Sunday's triumph-- became for Jesus' followers a pattern that can be applied to all our times of tribulation. Good Friday demonstrates that God is not indifferent to our pain; God, too, is personally "acquainted with grief." Holy Saturday hints that we may go through seasons of confusion and seeming defeat. And Easter Sunday shows that, in the end, suffering will not prevail.”
Source: Undone: A Modern Rendering of John Donne's Devotions
“But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was born approximately two years after that, and even Sunny, who had just passed out of babyhood, was not born yesterday. Neither were you, unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.”
“But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you're going to do.”
“But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.”
“But the time has come; the revelation has already occurred, and the guardian seers have seen the lightning strike the darkness we call reality. And now we sleep in the brief interval between the lightning and the thunder.”
Source: At the Edge of History
“But the time will come when New England will be as thickly peopled as old England. Wages will be as low, and will fluctuate as much with you as with us. You will have your Manchesters and Birminghams; and, in those Manchesters and Birminghams, hundreds of thousands of artisans will assuredly be sometimes out of work. Then your institutions will be fairly brought to the test.”
“But the toaster was quite satisfied with itself, thank you. Though it knew from magazines that there were toasters who could toast four slices at a time, it didn't think that the master, who lived alone and seemed to have few friends, would have wanted a toaster of such institutional proportions. With toast, it's quality that matters, not quantity.”
Source: The brave little toaster: a bedtime story for small appliances
“But the tomorrow upon which I was to make my decision never, in the form in which I had envisaged it, arrived.”
Source: The Sea, The Sea
“But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.”
“But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.”
Source: The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness
“But the transport of a novel, the false awareness of being within another time,
place and life that was the pleasure of reading, for her, was not possible. She
was in another time, place, consciousness; it pressed in upon her and filled her as someone’s breath fills a balloon’s shape. She was already not what she was. No fiction could compete with what she was finding she did not know, could not have imagined or discovered through imagination.”
Source: July's People
“But the trees again hid the object; and at the moment, some strange melodious bird took up its song, and sang, not an ordinary bird-song, with constant repetitions of the same melody, but what sounded like a continuous strain, in which one thought was expressed, deepening in intensity as it evolved in progress. It sounded like a welcome already overshadowed with the coming farewell. As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the doors she may not enter. Almost we linger with Sorrow for very love.”
Source: Phantastes
“But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer.”
Source: Rusty, the Boy from the Hills
“But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer. And looking around, I noticed the other small trees and wild plants and grasses had sprung up under the protection of the trees we had placed there. The trees had multiplied! They were moving. In one small corner of the world, Grandfather's dream was coming true and the trees were moving again.”
“But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafiness - the warm odours of flowers and herb came sweet upon the sense.”
Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)
“But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.”
Source: Mysteries of motion
“But the tricks I use are ones that will hopefully benefit the team.”
“But the trouble is that he [Alan Greenspan] had been an Ayn Rander. You can take the boy out of the cult but you can't take the cult out of the boy.”
“But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.”
“But the trouble with asking your subconscious what it wants is, it just laughs at you and says, 'Work it out for yourself, moron.”
Source: Christmas Shopaholic
“But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it." Carl got that brooding look again. "People forget that robes were street clothes once... and still are, in a lot of places. And halos are to that fierce air of innocence what speech balloons in comics are to the sound of the voice itself. Shorthand. But most people just see an old symbol and don't bother looking behind it for the meaning. Sainthood starts to look old-fashioned, unattainable... even repellent. Actually, you can see it all around, once you learn to spot it.”
Source: A Wizard Alone
“But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for more, which is not even temporarily pleasurable. Which then leads to deterioration of the faculties of both body and mind; plus a bewildering lack of co-operation between the two.”
“But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.”
“But the true historical fervour is the love of the past for the sake of the past… And behind it is the very passion to understand men in their diversity, the desire to study a bygone age in the things in which it differs from the present. The true historical fervour is that of the man for whom the exercise of historical imagination brings its own reward, in those inklings of a deeper understanding, those glimpses of a new interpretative truth, which are the historian’s achievement and his aesthetic delight”
Source: The Whig interpretation of history
“But the true idea of a Christian home, is that it is a place for spiritual growth. It is a place for the parents themselves to grow—to grow into beauty of character, to grow in spiritual refinement, in knowledge, in strength, in wisdom, in patience, gentleness, kindliness, and all the Christian graces and virtues. It is a place for children to grow—to grow into physical vigor and health and to be trained in all that shall make them true and noble men and women.”
Source: Home Making
“But the true threats to stability and peace are these nations that are not very transparent, that hide behind the-that don't let people in to take a look and see what they're up to. They're very kind of authoritarian regimes. The true threat is whether or not one of these people decide, peak of anger, try to hold us hostage, ourselves; the Israelis, for example, to whom we'll defend, offer our defenses; the South Koreans.”
“But the true voyagers are only those who leave Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons, They never turn aside from their fatality And without knowing why they always say: "Let's go!”
“But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.”
“But the truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing.”
“But the truth is a many-layered thing, not fit for easy consumption. And so I transformed it into something light, and easy, and entertaining.”
Source: The Bachelorette Party
“But the truth is, I didn't want it to. All of that pain reminded me of what was at risk, what I could lose if I was reckless. I could have saved everyone, but I could not save myself.
Moments before the medics pulled the plug, I had realized that I had made my mark on this world. I had fallen so madly in love with this incredible girl, and I broke her heart. I had a best friend and the pleasure of being Clarissa's enemy.”
“But the truth is... I mean... I haven't said this. But... I think the problem is not my father so much as my fear of being my father. Like if I run away too hard from him I will become something else that is also problematic.”
Source: Circle Mirror Transformation
“But the truth is, I want to be some woman's work boots, not her high heels."
"Work boots?" What was sexy about that? And did women have work boots?
"Yeah. You know, the boots she pulls out when she wants to get down and dirty, hiking or gardening or boating or painting the kitchen. The ones she relies on and trusts and lives her life hard and good and on her terms in. Her favorites.”
Source: Hard and Fast
“But the truth is, if things are so bad you’ve gotta send Balls O’Manly Steel in to save the day… Well, you’re probably already nipples up. Or you soon will be. Nah, in the real world, it’s us older folks who’re gonna save your bacon.”
Source: Famine, With Fries
“But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he or she was an absolute shit.”
Source: Barney's Version
“but the truth is, sadness never really goes away. It sits and waits for you to remember it’s there.”
Source: Peregrine
“But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.”
“But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.”
“But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.”
“But the truth is that L.A. was never entirely real anyway, as Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Larry David and Alan Ball all understood.”
“But the truth is that Lydia believed that right and wrong were thorny in this complicated place, as were truth, justice, and mercy. The one thing you can do is walk onward. There is a reason, she said, why nature did not give us eyes on the backs of our heads. What is done is done.
[Tony]”
Source: The Hottest Day of the Year
“But the truth is that no one is innocent in love, and nobody forced me to love Kelly J. I don’t want to stop just because she laughs at me. I want to stay in love with her until she realizes I am a person. It is a complicated thing that a little kid, or even a fifth grader, can’t understand, that we are always choosing situations that hurt us.
We choose them so deeply that we don’t know we chose them. We think we had to. We think the world did it to us.
And then we think, what a horrible world that makes a weapon out of love. That stabs you with it, even when you can't defend yourself and the other person hates you and wants to see you cry.
It's a miracle that anyone would ever fall in love with someone else and--of all the people in the world--that person loves them back. Like if you fell off a building and landed in a pillow truck, somehow.
It doesn't happen, basically.
Which means we end up with someone and there's a lot of choosing to do. Choosing to forgive strange smells or choosing that Gadzooks is not the only place that boyfriends can shop.
This is the work of love.”
Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue