B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But this too is true: stories can save us.”
Source: The Things They Carried
“But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it.”
Source: A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW
“But this... us..." He swallowed. "It can't happen, Avery. I've seen the way Jameson looks at you.”
Source: The Inheritance Games
“But this valley was his valley
and also this forest,
and to his majesty —
I was just a sideshow.”
Source: The Poetry Contest: Human vs. Machine
“But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.”
“But this was classic Sam—he had learned to tolerate the sometimes-painful present by living in the future.”
Source: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“But this was Dublin, the nation's capital. The place of my birth and a city I loved at the heart of a country I loathed. A town filled with good-hearted innocents, miserable bigots, adulterous husbands, conniving churchmen, paupers who received no help from the State, and millionaires who sucked the lifeblood from it.”
Source: The Heart's Invisible Furies
“But this was magic, something meant to be, as if some kisses could change the trajectory of the universe.”
Source: Ricochet
“But this was no ordinary chicken. This chicken was evil manifest.”
“But this was not the time to be picky.”
Source: Let It Snow
“But this was one way of knowing people, she thought: to know the outline, not the detail, to sit in one's garden and look a the slopes of a hill running purple down into the distant heather.”
Source: To the Lighthouse
“But this was reality, occluded and delicate.”
Source: The Heavens
“But this was Stormland. There was always another front coming remorselessly at the coast. A Category Four was coming from the mid-Atlantic, angling to cross their northward flight path. The Butcher Bird should be turned inland to try to dodge the worst of it. But NoelLeuman had insisted they stay on this course. Leuman was a stormrider.”
Source: Stormland
“But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve. Her life and her values could not bring her to that, she thought; she had never found beauty in longing for the impossible and had never found the possible to be beyond her reach.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“But this was the only way of life that humans knew for their first 6m years on the planet. In giving it up over the past few thousand years, we have lost our vulnerability to disease and cold and wild animals, but we have also lost good ways to bring up children, look after old people, stave off diabetes and heart disease and understand the real dangers of everyday life.”
“But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.”
Source: Lunar Park
“but this was what happened: you turned into you mother, unless you turned into your father. That, anyway, was what happened if you let life smooth you down, plane away the edges that made you different.”
Source: Dead Lions
“but this was what happened: you turned unto you mother, unless you turned into your father. That, anyway, was what happened if you let life smooth you down, plane away the edges that made you different.”
Source: Dead Lions
“But this wasn’t just someone. This was Alaric, her husband, her enemy, her dark mirror, and the Lightweave in her veins soared in triumph, recognizing him for what he was, calling out to his shadows, and everything was golden, was eclipse, was forever, was theirs alone.”
Source: The Hurricane Wars
“But this we know, the obstacle that checked
And tripped the body, shot the spirit on
Further than target ever showed or shone.”
Source: Selected poems
“But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.”
Source: The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
“But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.”
Source: America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island
“But this woman did not hold Time. She spent it. She wasted minutes in the sun, threw away seconds on winding sidewalks, offered hours to paintings and ice cream and movement, and let herself be changed.”
Source: The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
“But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!”
Source: Thus spake Zarathustra
“But this year I have started out trying to live all my waking moments in conscious listening to the inner voice, asking without ceasing, 'What, Father, do you desire said? What, Father, do you desire done this minute?'”
Source: Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach
“But this…this kid wasn’t dead yet. Makes no sense to me. (Bubba) Maybe someone spiked his Wheaties? (Nick)”
“But those coins are wishes! You’re stealing other people’s wishes!”
The look Matteo gave her was so flinty, she could have chipped a tooth on it. “If you have money to waste on wishes, you don’t need the wishes as badly as I need the money.”
Source: Rooftoppers
“But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which man is master, but the truths or semblances of truth which have a certain mastery over man. The material is explosive because it must be taken seriously. The men writing books really are throwing bombs.”
“But those eyes, those big green eyes of hers, they bore right into me with crippling force. She wanted it too much; the space Tommy had left in her, she wanted me to fill it. And I couldn't. She looked too young and too scared. almost like she didn't really want it either, she just needed it. I couldn't stick it in and fuck her pain away. I did not know how to fuck at all, let alone as therapy.”
Source: How It Feels
“But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did.”
“But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun." Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. "At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, sometimes they are there; often, indeed. But in the very long run the concern of you people is with the absolute good, ahead of all else. You are like fanatics. Your masters, at any rate. Like the old Crusaders -- oh, like certain groups in every belief, though this is not a matter of religion, of course. At the centre of the Light there is a cold white flame, just as at the centre of the Dark there is a great black pit bottomless as the Universe."
His warm, deep voice ended, and there was only the roar of the engine. Will looked out over the grey-misted fields, silent.
"There was a great long speech, now," John Rowlands said awkwardly. "But I was only saying, be careful not to forget that there are people in this valley who can be hurt, even in the pursuit of good ends.”
“But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.”
“But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.”
“But those rich town ladies can change their minds. Poor folks cant.”
Source: As I Lay Dying
“But those set to guard a treasure, are too often those who loot it.”
Source: The Leopard Hunts in Darkness
“But those stories aren't important to my story, and that's what I'm trying to muddle through right now—what I'm going to do, and where I'm going to go. And, most difficult of all, who I'm going to be—because who you are is just the stories you tell yourself about yourself, and the intersection of all the hurts you've ever had and how you survived them.”
Source: A Choir of Lies
“But those three people waiting outside are the tones of Jay's voice, the organs in Jay's body.”
Source: Whalefall
“But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.”
Source: Collected Prose
“But those unhappy ones who were ensnared by Melkor little is known of a certainty. For who of the living has descended into the pits of Utumno, or has explored the darkness of the counsels of Melkor? Yet this is held true by the wise Eressea, that all those of the Quendi who came into the hands of Melkor, ere Utumno was broken, were put there in prison, and by slow arts of cruelty were corrupted and enslaved; and thus did Melkor breed the hideous race of the Orcs in envy and mockery of the Elves, of whom they were afterwards the bitterest foes. For the Orcs had life and multiplied after the manner of the Children of Iluvatar; and naught that had life of its or, nor semblance of life, could ever Melkor make since his rebellion in the Ainulindale before the Beginning: so say the wise. And deep in their dark hearts the Orcs loathed the Master whom they served in fear, the maker only of their misery. This it may be was the vilest deed of Melkor and the most hateful to Iluvatar.”
Source: The Silmarillion
“But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the demonstration from the Scriptures themselves.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Clement of Alexandria (Illustrated)
“But those who believe that flowers grow in vases don't understand anything about literature. The library has now become her first-aid kit, and she's going to give the children a little of the medicine that helped her recover her smile when she thought she'd lost it forever.”
Source: La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz
“But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.”
“But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.”
“But those who chose to reject God during their lifetime on earth will be separated from him for eternity. This is not God's desire, but man's own choice. God holds every man accountable for his rejection of Christ.”
“But those who forget the past, ignore the present, and fear for the future have a life that is very brief and filled with anxiety: when they come to face death, the wretches understand too late that for such a long time they have busied themselves in doing nothing.”
Source: On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
“But those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear for the future have a life that is very brief and troubled; when they have reached the end of it, the poor wretches perceive too late that for such a long while they have been busied in doing nothing.”
Source: On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
“But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt.
Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.”
Source: Everything Beautiful Began After
“But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.”
Source: John Calvin: Selections from His Writings
“But those with an evil heart seem to have a talent for destroying anything beautiful which is about to bloom.”
“But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.”