B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But they were fated to misunderstand each other.”
Source: Jolly Roger: Captain Blood PLUS the Sea Hawk
“but they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“But they were her parents! Putting up with all of her crap was their official job - they couldn't wriggle out of it! She tried to swallow the lump forming in her throat. How could they do this to her?”
Source: Croak
“But they were nonetheless consumed with a fire of loyalty, that paid no heed to years or age.”
Source: Gnomes of Coyul: The Crystal Staff
“But they were wrong. There was a reason.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“But they weren’t small children, they were women, they were admiring someone they didn’t know the first thing about. Look at the hag Truth for once, college girl.”
Source: White Oleander
“But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.”
“But they will remember you. They’ll remember you every second of every day. They won’t be able to stop remembering you. Everything they say, everything they smell, taste, hear, absolutely everything in their lives is linked to you. In a way, you will haunt them. You will be constantly in their thoughts even when they don’t want you there, because they’ll need you gone so that they can get through, and then there are days when they’ll need you there in order for them to get through.”
Source: Postscript
“But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.”
Source: The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King
“But they wouldn't, they wouldn't have done any of that, because in stories guys fight. They fight for the person they care about, and they don't give up, ever.
In real life, though, sometimes you beg for them to care, and they just don't. And then they go quiet.
And they let you walk away without much of a fight at all.”
Source: Only Mostly Devastated
“But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything.”
Source: Goliath
“But they're family, and you forgive them, even if they are human equivalent of hyenas. Because that's what you do, Posey. Forgive.”
“But they're laughing at you. They're not laughing with you.”
“But they've [my children] made me better. They hold me more accountable for who I am and who I aspire to be, and they make me want to be better. And that's not just as a mommy, but as a woman and as an athlete.”
“But thing in the past are like plate that’s shattered to pieces. You can never put it back together like it was, right?”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“But things change, people change, Gaby. Otherwise what would be the point of living?”
Source: Nadia's Song
“But things change, of course, and so do the ways in which people see themselves.”
“But things don't just fall apart. People break them.”
Source: The Book of Blood and Shadow
“But things don't necessarily have to be that expensive to be good. As long as they are expensive enough to last.”
“But things had changed, and now she sat in her car outside her childhood residence staring at an open gate with a fifteen-inch Bowie knife in her lap, thinking.”
Source: Homecoming Queen: A Small-Town Political Thriller
“But things linger in my head. They don’t go away.
Maybe he’s right. Maybe I really am still a kid who doesn’t know how to move on.”
Source: Rebel
“But things move on and by the time you've plotted your position the world around you has changed and you are running -panting- to catch up.”
“But things never work out like they do in Hollywood.”
“But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from there. Professor Flitwick in 'Harry Potter', I kind of defined how I saw him from reading the book, and luckily that matched up with the director's vision.”
“But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.”
Source: Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes
“But things were different now. I finally had my head -pun intended- on straight.”
“But things worked out. Everything works out. Though sometimes they work out sideways.”
Source: The Ring is Closed
“But think about how evil that is for one man to think that he's actually more valuable than a woman, because as a human being your worth is immeasurable.”
“But think about it,” I continued. “If you know where people are hurting, you can help them face it and heal. You can provide understanding no one else can!”
Source: The Gifted
“But think about it. We’ve tried for over twenty years to do everything right, to save our money, to pay our bills, to raise our kid, and to live within the law. We’ve done everything the right way, at least to the best of our ability.” Rick grabbed her hand. “But that’s not enough. That guy is right about at least that much. He’s giving us a chance to do something that will lash out, and he’s willing to pay for it. I can see the sincerity all over his face. He’s not trying to con us. He just wants an ally, a foot soldier.”
“Why you?” Renee asked bluntly. “Is it that hard to find someone crazy enough to do something that extreme?” She caught herself and started laughing. “Maybe it is.”
“But think about it - what if there were a deus ex machina in real life? Everything would be so easy! If you felt stuck or trapped, some god would swing down from up here and solve all your problems. What could be easier than that?”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn't be imagined without it.”
“But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door.”
Source: Lirael
“But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there.”
Source: East of Eden
“But think of the last guy. For one minute, think of the last guy. Nobodys got it worse than that guy. Nobody in the whole world.”
“But think of the violence, it could happen to your kids.”
“But think that we
Are but turn'd aside to sleep;
They who one another keep
Alive, ne'er parted be.”
“But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep.”
Source: Selected poems
“But thinkin’ you owe people is dangerous business.”
Source: Take Me There
“But thinking never took away tears. Only time did.”
Source: The Day After Tomorrow
“But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.”
“but this also
is part of my charm.
A maudlin nostalgia
that comes on
like terrible thoughts about death.”
“But this being has human shape, Gurney, and deserves human doubt.”
Source: DUNE
“But this boy in a French or British factory, standing in his leather overall welding the casing on a metal bomb; what can he see? That thing will fly through the air, fall hundreds of miles away, and kill boys in leather overalls in a German factory. the reports will roar victory or defeat, and boys will never know how alike their lives have been.”
“But this cheap-thrill version, this sort of ease definition, the feel-good definition of happiness is an empty promise. Unless we get wiser as to how to carry the difficulties of life in a way that's self-compassionate and empowering, we can create this kind of world in which we'd rather sort of plug into the matrix with whatever pills or escapist tendencies we can think of instead of walking through a process of living that's going to include loss. It's going to include limitations on function. We need to learn and teach our children how to do that.”
“But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.”
Source: The Preacher's Manual: Including Clavis Biblica, and A Letter to a Methodist Preacher
“But this city is a world of its own, a country within a country. People are used to taking the old and making it news; and used, too, to taking the new and making it old. Every glass of water from its taps, it is said, has passed six times through the kidneys of another, and every scrap of its land has been trodden on, fought over, dug up and broken down for centuries.”
Source: Hearts and Minds
“But this? Convincing someone of the truth they were too twisted up to see? How could Bast begin to loosen such a knot?
It was baffling. These creatures, fraught and frayed in their desire. A snake would never poison itself, but these folk made an art of it. They wrapped themselves in fears and wept at being blind. It was infuriating. It was enough to break a heart.”
Source: The Narrow Road Between Desires
“But this day he was lost in the story he made of their bodies. The men were in the midst of saving a six-inch Mickey Mouse trapped in a prison made of black VHS tapes.
...Before he could make out his mother's face, the backhand blasted the side of his head, followed by another, then more. A rain of it. A storm of mother. The boy's grandmother, hearing the screams, rushed in and, as if by instinct, knelt on all fours over the boy, make a small and feeble house with her frame. Inside it, the boy curled into his clothes and waited for his mother to calm. Through his grandmother's trembling arms, he noticed the videocassettes had toppled over. Mickey Mouse was free.”
Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“But this didn't feel like magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.”
Source: Soul Music