B Quotes
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“But then, in his lifetime, Halt had often ignored what was technically legal. Technicalities didn't appeal to him. All too often, they simply got in the way of doing the right thing.”
Source: The Lost Stories (Ranger's Apprentice Book 11)
“But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?”
Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition
“But then, it's probably different when you're young.”
Source: Let Me In
“But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope.”
“But then, like George Michael in a men's bathroom, I got cocky.”
“But then, look at me. My brain is incorrectly formed, and I'm shaped like a tube. Plus, I'm an alcoholic, a "survivor" of childhood sexual abuse, was raised in a cult and have no education. So, really, if you think about it, the only thing that separates me from the guy with the stinky foot and no teeth is a book deal and some cologne.”
Source: Magical Thinking
“But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit I created.”
Source: Impulse
“But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!”
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
“But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.”
Source: The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series
“But then, that was the trouble with relationships generally. They had their own temperature and there was no thermostat.”
“But then, that's the beauty of writing stories-each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there's no feeling like it.”
“But then, the flames of a fire are not made less painful by the knowledge that others are burning with you.”
Source: Company of Liars
“But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess.”
“But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious insights and ignore or reinterpret those that undermine your certainties. Selective quoting isn't just legitimate, but essential: Religions evolve through shifts in selective quoting.”
“But there, all crowded together on the third-floor balcony, he watches as she falls in love with the stars, and they watch as he falls in love with her.”
Source: Juneau Elicits
“But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA.”
“But there are a couple of places where it is clear to me that there should be no ambiguity of corporate responsibility - the environment and civil rights, .. As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.”
“But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.”
“But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.”
Source: Paper Towns
“But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.”
Source: The uncommon wisdom of Ronald Reagan: a portrait in his own words
“But there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the great outside world of winning and achieving and displaying.”
“But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.”
“But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.”
Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs
“But there are differences. The social studies I’ve read …” “They don’t deal with any basic difference in human nature between black and white,” I said. “They only study the effects of environment on human nature. You place the white man in the ghetto, deprive him of educational advantages, arrange it so he has to struggle hard to fulfill his instinct for self-respect, give him little physical privacy and less leisure, and he would after a time assume the same characteristics you attach to the Negro. These characteristics don’t spring from whiteness or blackness, but from a man’s conditioning.”
Source: Black Like Me
“But there are forces that don't let you turn back and undo things, because to do so would be to deny what is already in motion, to unwrite and erase passages, to shorten the arc of a story you don't own.”
“But there are important calls to both my personal life and professional endeavors about which I am excited to pursue, including projects and initiatives that directly and indirectly support USA Canoe/Kayak's mission. The goal is not to leave, but to create space in order to contribute more to national and international paddle sports objectives.”
“But there are limits to economic growth. The economy cannot grow forever. The modern economy has to find an eco-friendly method of expanding than munching the worker's souls and choking nature’s throats in the face of global warming.”
“But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.”
“But there are many, and I'm a supporter of a great deal of charities.”
“But there are messages of luck in our lives. They show us our path of fortunicity. They guide us where to go”
Source: The Fortunicity of Birdie Dalal
“But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass, say, the window of the corner video store, and I'm gripped by a cherishing so deep for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned coat that I'm speechless: I am living. I remember you.”
“But there are much worse games to play
~Katniss Everdeen”
Source: Mockingjay
“But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse”
Source: Suttree
“But there are no happy endings, because if things are happy they have not ended.”
Source: Essays After Eighty
“But there are no institutions on earth which enable each separate person to have a hand in the exercise of Power, for Power is command, and everyone cannot command. Sovereignty of the people is, therefore, nothing but a fiction, and one which must in the long run prove destructive of individual liberties.”
Source: On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth
“But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.”
Source: The Death Of A President
“But there are not a few who would be indignant at having their belief in God questioned, who yet seem greatly to fear imagining Him better than He is.”
Source: Life Essential: The Hope of the Gospel
“But there are only so many times you can handle heartbreak with someone before you have to start protecting yourself.”
“But there are other serious issues that concern me; namely, workers rights, safety regulations, and a big lament of mine, child labor issues.”
Source: A Blazing Gilded Age
“But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.”
Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia
“But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.”
“But there are others of my kind...those who see themselves as lions among sheep. As kings--superior to man in every way. Why, then, should they be confined to darkness? Why should they fear man?”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance, to which the inevitable disillusionment you experience on seeing them gives a singular spice. You had expected something wholly beautiful and you get an impression which is infinitely more complicated than any that beauty can give you. It is the weakness in the character of a great man which may make him less admirable but certainly more interesting. Nothing had prepared me for Honolulu.”
“But there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you--knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don't let it break you when you discover that.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“But there are realities governing what they can do. And Ukraine cannot live with the false image that somehow or another the West will come and rescue her. It's not going to happen.”
“But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.”
“But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round them, and the people who fall into them and get out and know they're there because of that. They both come to the same conclusions but they don't have quite the same point of view.”
Source: Dancers in Mourning
“But there are so many complicated things in life that I don’t know much about. But I do know about love. I think love is the reason we humans decided to come to this damn planet in the first place”
Source: The Problem with Players
“But there are so many ways to be needy. There are many who mourn and find no comfort. Many are lonely and find no love. Some feel unneeded and find no opportunities to share with others. Anyone who has an unmet need is needy. We are all needy! And those who have something they can share are rich. We are all rich! All of us can share something that may lift a burden or help in some silent struggle.”
“But there are some born to do penance by nature. Maybe they lift the load for some of us who take it quite comfortably that we're humankind, and not angels.”
Source: The Confession of Brother Haluin