B Quotes
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“But there are some persons who wouldpersuade the people never to make use of their constitutional rights.”
“But there are some secrets—my secrets—that Windermere will hold forever, trapped beneath the ash like spilled blood.”
Source: I Killed Zoe Spanos
“But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.”
Source: Northanger abbey
“But there are some things better left in the past.”
Source: Frayed
“But there are some things, child, that you should steal. That you must steal, if you have enough love and courage in your heart. You must snatch freedom from the hands of the tyrant. You must spirit away innocent lives before they are destroyed. You must hide secret and sacred places.”
Source: Museum of Thieves
“But there are still good shows like 24, Boomtown and the Wire, the Shield.”
“But there are still many who continue to marvel at the wisdom of God in so planning the universe that big rivers run by great towns, and that death comes at the end of life instead of in the middle of it. Divest pleas ... of their semi-philosophic jargon, reduce his illustrations to homely similes, and he is marvelling at the wisdom of God who so planned things that the two extremities of a piece of wood should come at the ends instead of in the middle.”
“But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.”
“But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.”
“But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another. I'm so sick.”
Source: The Hours
“But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another.”
“But there are still those outliers. The people who are everywhere but fit nowhere. People who are involved but not envied-present, but imperfect-so the scrutiny pushes them out of the race. People like me...”
Source: You Should See Me in a Crown
“But there are tears in my eyes and then I can’t stop crying, stood there on that practice pitch in the dark, the tears rolling down my bloody cheeks, for once in my fucking life glad that I’m alone.”
Source: The Damned Utd
“But there are things an older brother learns too late: if you take a man’s destiny from him, you don’t save his life—you only change the way he’ll lose it.
― W. E. Ticas, *The Threshold of the Graves*”
“But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve.”
“But there are things not even Crown and Council can steal and control. Not my mind, not my heart, not my soul.”
Source: A Touch of Death
“But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.”
Source: A Streetcar Named Desire
“But there are things you can't consult anybody about.”
Source: More Die of Heartbreak
“But there are things you tell yourself. And there are things you know. And Maddie knew that the one person she could depend on was herself. But that's okay, she thought. I'm usually enough.”
Source: Not If I Save You First
“But there are times in life when a door opens and you are offered a glimpse of the light on the water, and you know that if you don't take it, that door slams shut, and maybe forever. Maybe you fool yourself into thinking that you had a choice at all; maybe you were always going to say yes. Maybe refusing was no more a choice than is holding your breath. You were always going to breathe. You were always going to say yes.”
“But there are times in our meditation – and they come to all who meditate – when everything is suddenly worn-out, old, seen and reseen, even though we have yet to see it. Because no matter how much we meditate on something, and through meditation transform it, whatever we transform it into can only be the substance of meditation. At a certain point we are overwhelmed by a yearning for life, by a desire to know without the intellect, to meditate with only our senses, to think in a tactile or sensory mode, from inside the object of our thought, as if it were a sponge and we were water.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible.”
“But there are times — my favorite climbs — when it doesn’t feel as if I’m climbing. Instead, the cliff or tree or wall seems to be lifting me, higher and higher.”
Source: Bright Eyes: A Kunoichi Tale
“But there are times of suffering which remain in our lives like black absolutes and are not blotted out. Fortunate are those for whom these black stars shed some sort of light.”
Source: The Black Prince
“But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that tree and topple it over in a mighty storm. All the other trees who witnessed the evil look down upon the fallen tree with envy. They pray for the day when a wind will end their suffering. I pray for the day when God will end mine.”
Source: Guardian
“But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to doubt the truth of the Christian religion; and well they may, for it is too fanciful and too full of conjecture, inconsistency, improbability and irrationality, to afford consolation to the thoughtful man. His reason revolts against his creed. He sees that none of its articles are proved, or can be proved.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Paine: A Hero in the American Revolution. With an Account of His Life ...
“But there are times when patience proves at fault.”
Source: Paracelsus
“But there are times when the little cloud spreads, until it obscures the sky. And those times I look around at my fellow men and I am reminded of some likeness of the beast-people, and I feel as though the animal is surging up in them. And I know they are neither wholly animal nor holy man, but an unstable combination of both.”
“But there are times when the sharpest suffering is not to suffer and the worse affliction not to be afflicted.”
“But there are times when thinking is misplaced, like when taking photographs. You cannot think your way to making photographs; you can photograph your way to clearer thinking.”
“But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.”
“But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.”
Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more
“But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be.”
Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE
“But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty." McVries's voice had dropped to a hoarse whisper. "It isn’t man or God. It’s something...in the brain.”
Source: The Long Walk
“But there can be intuitions even here of a more sublime agony.”
Source: The Black Prince
“But there can be no grave for Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson...Shall they not always live in Baker Street? Are they not there this moment, as one writes? Outside, the hansoms rattle through the rain, and Moriarty plans his latest devilry. Within, the sea-coal flames upon the hearth and Holmes and Watson take their well-won case...So they still live for all that love them well; in a romantic chamber of the heart, in a nostalgic country of the mind, where it is always 1895.”
“But there can be no secrets in a house where there are children.”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
“But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.”
“But there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by oppression. There comes a time when people get tired of being plunged into the abyss of exploitation and nagging injustice. The story of Montgomery is the story of 50,000 such Negroes who were willing to substitute tired feed for tired souls, and walk the streets of Montgomery until the walls of segregation were finally battered by the forces of justice.”
Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
“But there comes to birth no common spawn
From the love of a priest for a leprechaun,
And you never have seen
and you never will see
Such things as the things that swaddled me!”
Source: A Few Figs from Thistles
“But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?”
Source: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
“But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.”
“But there have been many news reports that water-boarding has been used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is one of the major al Qaeda figures that we have in U.S. custody.”
“But there he was last night, standing on the stoop, yelling up at my window to let him inside.
I let him in.”
Source: In the Cut
“But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason you were brought into Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you might know me better there.”
“But there is a beauty every girl has—a gift from God, as pure as the sunlight, and as sacred as life. It is a beauty that all men love, a virtue that wins all men's souls. That beauty is chastity. Chastity without skin beauty may enkindle the soul; skin beauty without chastity can kindle only the eye. Chastity enshrined in the mold of true womanhood will hold true love eternally.”
“But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.”
“But there is a compelling reason to develop a personal strategy for living. Rejecting issues, which often feels liberating, is actually enslavement. Those who do not produce their own solutions must be using someone else's. As Nietzsche warned 'he who cannot obey himself will be commanded'.”
“But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.”
“But there is a critical point about differences between individuals that exerts arguably more influence on worker productivity than any other. The factor is locus of control, a fancy name for how people view their autonomy and agency in the world. People with an internal locus of control believe that they are responsible for (or at least can influence) their own fates and life outcomes. They may or may not feel they are leaders, but they feel that they are essentially in charge of their lives. Those with an external locus of control see themselves as relatively powerless pawns in some game played by others; they believe that other people, environmental forces, the weather, malevolent gods, the alignment of celestial bodies-- basically any and all external events-- exert the most influence on their lives.”
Source: The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload