B Quotes
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“But time has a way of stealthily deciding a person’s mind without her conscious knowledge, and as she studied and procrastinated, Poison found one day that she had come to know her choice.”
“But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.”
“But time in only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there'll be mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms in the grass, sweetest of all fungi.”
Source: Imaginations
“But Time is a great traitor who teaches us to accept loss.”
Source: I, Juan de Pareja
“But time is like that, it’s a bitter acquaintance that no matter how hard one tries to fight it one can’t. One always is bound to its constantly ticking onward and even though many have wanted to bottle it, it just couldn’t be done.”
“But time is the great equalizer, the same for all: twenty-four hours every day, seven days every week, every life a length unknown, for richest and poorest and all between.”
Source: How To Fly A Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery
“But time is yet another of God's creations, and as such, it has a life of its own.”
“But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine; it loses its grip.”
Source: Genesis
“But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality, has no such simple effect upon the mind of man. The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second.”
Source: Orlando
“But time, as well as healing all wounds, taught me something strange too: that it's possible to love more than one person in a lifetime. I remarried. I'm very happy with my new wife, and I can't imagine living without her. This, however, doesn't mean that I have to renounce all my past experiences, as long as I'm careful not to compare my two lives. You can't measure love the way you can the length of a road or the height of a building.”
“But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the mind of man.”
Source: Orlando: A Biography
“But times and tempers are changed. Rebels are everywhere to be found who no longer wish to obey the law without knowing whence it comes, what are its uses, and whither arises the obligation to submit to it, and the reverence with which it is encompassed. The rebels of our day are criticizing the very foundations of society which have hitherto been held sacred, and first and foremost amongst them that fetish, law.”
“But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train
Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain;
Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose,
Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected
“But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music.”
“But times do change and move continually.”
Source: THE FAERIE QUEENE.
“But to a higher mark than song can reach,
Rose this pure eloquence.”
Source: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
“But to a Vietnamese peasant whose home means a lifetime of back-breaking labor, it will take more than presidential promises to convince him that we are on his side.”
“But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“But to always be grateful for what I've been given is my motto and personal vibe, so whether I'm making music with BTS or going to the UN, I try to study up on my responsibilities as much as I possibly can on my level. I do have a sense of mission about my work, in the end.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?”
Source: Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations
“But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than the sound of the tides, and with which we should be appalled to find ourselves condemned to live.”
“But to be able to kiss someone you love when you're fully and completely in control of yourself and know who you are...it's exquisite. How we love others is affected by how we love ourselves.”
Source: Succubus Revealed
“But to be close to a child, for whom one spent everything, whose life was protected and nourished by one’s own, to have that child beside one, at peace, was the real, the deepest, the only joy.”
Source: Light Years
“But to be corrupt, you must once have been innocent - and I guess some people never were.”
Source: Black Swans
“But to be fair, she continued, I never said that numbers were magic. I said that your mother was magic. A sorceress, specially, but let’s just say magic, it’s easier. But here’s the thing, Alex, my love, this isn’t new information, and your mother isn’t alone. All women are magic. Literally all of us. It’s in our nature. It’s best you learn that now.”
Source: When Women Were Dragons
“But to be fair, Arsenal are a quality side. They're not where they are by chance - they are not top of the league and unbeaten because they are a bad team.”
“But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed.”
“But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.”
Source: The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
“But to be part of helping create a character and be a part of something from the beginning - the excitement of it - it doesn't get any better.”
“But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel ... it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended.”
“But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.”
Source: The House In Paris
“But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.”
“But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.”
“But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.”
Source: What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855
“But to be what I am, to live what I was meant to live, to want to sound like no one else, to yield the blossoms dictated to my heart: this is what I want - and this surely cannot be arrogance. (Letters on Life)”
“But to begin again? No, Virginia. There can be no beginning again. Love and forgiveness are not the same thing.”
Source: Vanessa and Her Sister
“But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.”
“But to betray her with battalion... That is against decency, against Nature...And for him, Christopher tietjens, to come down to the level of the men you met here!”
Source: No More Parades
“But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling upward of twenty miles per second, required a fraction of a second. No offense to Grand Canyon lovers, but for my money, Meteor Crater is the most amazing natural landmark in the world.”
“But to Cecil, now that he was about to lose her, she seemed each moment more desirable. He looked at her, instead of through her, for the first time since they were engaged. From a Leonardo, she had become a living woman, with mysteries and forces of her own, with qualities that even eluded art.”
Source: A Room with a View
“But to change all existence into a flow experience, it is not sufficient to learn merely how to control moment-by-moment states of consciousness. It is also necessary to have an overall context of goals for the events of everyday life to make senseTo create harmony in whatever one does is the last task that the flow theory presents to whose who wish to attain optimal experience; it is a task that involves transforming the entirety of life into a single flow activity, with unified goals that provide constant purpose.”
“But to demand that a work be “relatable” expresses a different expectation: that the work itself be somehow accommodating to, or reflective of, the experience of the reader or viewer. The reader or viewer remains passive in the face of the book or movie or play: she expects the work to be done for her. If the concept of identification suggested that an individual experiences a work as a mirror in which he might recognize himself, the notion of relatability implies that the work in question serves like a selfie: a flattering confirmation of an individual's solipsism.”
“But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness;if you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity.”
“But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.”
Source: Carmilla
“But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.”
Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm
“But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment. Slowing down, stopping yourself completely, to read and understand a poem is like trying to acquire an old-fashioned skill.”
“But to enjoy him we must know him. Seeing is savoring. If he remains a blurry, vague fog, we may be intrigued for a season. But we will not be stunned with joy, as when the fog clears and you find yourself on the brink of some vast precipice.”
Source: Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
“But to enjoy the festivities, one needs a light heart. A burdened heart, wrapped in the richest of silks, suffers eternally.”
Source: Fourteen Springs of Separation
“But to everything in this world there comes an end; there even comes an end to the torments suffered in those intermediate states of transition when the last secret tear of one's soul is bitterly swallowed, and the crisis passes, resolving itself into some new sort of phase, which even as it comes into existence is fated in turn to pass away, to disappear in the eternal changing of the times and seasons.”
Source: How It All Began: The Prison Novel