B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
“But to feel nothing as to not feel anything — what a waste!”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything – what a waste!”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“But to fight something, you really have to try to understand its motivations—particularly when the something you’re fighting holds most of the cards, the deck is stacked against you, and the whole gambling hall is on fire and filled with thugs.”
Source: Hull Zero Three
“But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.”
Source: The Bluest Eye
“But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!”
Source: The Collected Works Of Jules Verne
“But to fly is just like swimming. You do not forget easily. I have been on the ground for more than ten years. If I close my eyes, however, I can again feel the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, the rudder bar beneath my feet. I can sense the freedom and the cleanliness and all the things which a pilot knows.”
“But to fully understand this concept we must actually experience it. We almost always forget that our perception of what we call the physical world is a simulation and not “reality itself.” William Blake understood the concept that we create our own reality when he stated, “That which appears without, is within.” When I had my first LSD trip at the age of 16, among other things I realized that the brain entirely creates what we experience as reality. I realized it by experiencing it. Everything that we think is the external world is actually a neurological simulation fabricated out of complex chains of sensory signals by the human brain. On that psychedelic experience it appeared to me as though all of reality was composed of points or monads, and that our perception of reality is like those connect-the-dots games that we play as children. The possible ways of connecting the dots are far more varied than I had thought, and can be done in countless different ways.”
Source: Mavericks of the Mind
“But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.”
“But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay.”
Source: Songs of Innocence and of Experience
“But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!”
Source: Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience Illustrated
“But to have found true love and lost it, and yet still have a sliver of hope of getting it back, was another type of torture entirely.”
“But to hear Kennedy when he was grandstanding in front of the McClellan Committee you might have thought I was making as much out of the pension fund as the Kennedys made out of selling whiskey.”
“But to her, libraries were like hotels: secret villages inhabited by passing strangers from a thousand different worlds brought together just for a few hours.”
“But, to her ultimate surprise, a tight, aching heat bloomed low in her belly, starting in her womb and reaching for the shaft of branding heat plunging and retracting from inside her.
Her lips parted of their own accord, and a small sound of delighted surprise escaped.
Blackwell's eyes sharpened. Questioned.
Farah's body answered without thought. A lift of her hips, a press of her thighs, and a soft moan of encouragement.
It was all he needed.
Blackwell didn't kiss or taste her. Instead he watched her face with an intensity that abashed her. Every flutter of her eyelid, or intake of breath, the way her lips parted or pressed together. His body again became a conduit of her gratification.
It shocked her how he could support his heavy frame all this time on one powerful arm, but the thought dissipated as he used his other hand to explore her, rendering her mind useless and directing her awareness like a symphony conductor. He traced the line of her jaw, the curve of her cheekbones, as though committing her to memory, or visiting one, she couldn't be sure.
As the slow pressure mounted, her moans became mewls, her mewls became cries. His finger drifted along the outline of her lips, slipping past her teeth and leaving the taste of sex on her tongue. Sex and leather. She closed her lips and rolled the glove between her tongue and the roof of her mouth, feeling the hard ridge of his fingers beneath.
He hissed, growled, and pulled his hand away, drawing it down to her hip and gripping the curve of her ass, spreading her wider for his accelerating thrusts.
Farah's head tossed against her pillow, her eyes rolling back into their sockets, retreating from sight, as her other overwhelmed senses demanded her attention.
Leather and sex. Darkness. Spice. Chilly air. Hot Blood. Textiles. Smooth, slick flesh. Wide, hard male.
A mouth on hers. A tongue thrusting inside, tasting the essence of her he'd left there, lapping at it.”
Source: The Highwayman
“But, to judge the action fairly, we must transport ourselves to the age when it happened.”
Source: History of the Conquest of Mexico
“But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice (Illustrated)
“But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as walking on the road; the perspective to say the very least, changes only with the journey; only when the road has, all abruptly and treacherously, and with an absoluteness that permits no argument, turned or dropped or risen is one able to see all that one could not have seen from any other place.”
“But to Lord Peter the world presented itself as an entertaining labyrinth of side-issues”
Source: The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death
“But to lose your life for another I've heard is a good place to begin
Cause the only way to find your life is to lay your own life down
And I believe it's an easy price for the life that we have found”
“But to love Frances was to be always saying goodbye to the girl Frances used to be and falling in love again with the girl Frances was becoming.”
Source: Atmosphere
“But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two
“But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love.”
“But to make the intangible tangible, to pick the emotion out of the air and make it true for others, is both the blessing and the curse of the writer, for the thing between book covers is never as beautiful as the thing he imagined.”
“But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.”
“But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not terminate in an actual experience.”
“But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.”
Source: The essence of Alan Watts
“But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.”
“But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.”
“But to me the notion that spirituality is separate from the rest of life does not allow for a practical approach to living a life that has extraordinary quality.”
“But to me, they were beautiful, like their own constellation.”
Source: Love Letters to the Dead
“But to me what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning.”
“But to me, what the Greeks knew and what these other ancient authors, I think, tapped into is something we’re only now finding words to articulate again, which is that betrayal is the wound that cuts the deepest. You can call it whatever you want, moral distress, moral injury, but really, it’s betrayal — feeling abandoned or betrayed, or betraying oneself and one’s sense of what’s right. And so we had respiratory therapists in some of our early performances during the pandemic, who were saying, “I have 20 patients on respirators in the public hospital in the Bronx, and there’s only me, and I’m left with the guilt of not being able to attend to them all.”
That’s an impossible situation. So you call that person a hero, when they’re wrestling with their own sense of betraying their own standards of care and being betrayed by the system that put them in that position, and it could actually hurt them.”
“But to me, the most important page in my daughter's book is the last one - because it's blank. It says, "Your Hero's Photo Here," and, "Your Hero's Story Here."”
“But to me, to be original is to be yourself.”
“But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live.”
Source: I Am Not But I Know I Am: Welcome to the Story of God
“But to measure cause and effect... you must ensure that a simple correlation, however tempting it may be, is not mistaken for a cause. In the 1990s the stork population of Germany increased and the German at-home birth rate rose as well. Shall we credit storks for airlifting the babies?”
“But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.”
Source: Cold Sassy Tree
“But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the observance.”
“But to myself all predictions are favorable if I wish them to be, since it is up to me to benefit from the outcome, whatever it may be.”
Source: How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life
“But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren't content with being mediocre; they'll do everything in their power to prevent even the humblest of teachers and children from accomplishing anything extraordinary. For good work shines a light on the failures of the mediocre, and that is a light which terrifies those who conspire to keep our nation's children, like themselves, ordinary.”
“But to personally satisfy my own adrenalin needs, I've been racing cars a little bit, which has been fun.”
“But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict”
Source: The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
“But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science.”
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“But to procrastinate and prevaricate simply because you're afraid of erring, when others - I mean our brethren in Germany - must make infinitely more difficult decisions every day, seems to me almost to run counter to love. To delay or fail to make decisions may be more sinful than to make wrong decisions out of faith and love.”
“But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.”
Source: Too Late The Phalarope
“But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.”
“But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and imaginative form in which they are sometimes couched, would be no less a violation of the canons of evangelical literalism than the allegorizing of the Scholastics was.”
Source: Fundamentalism
“But to remain too long, rooted in one place, even one place so beautiful, that was not the Imuhar way – for a man who wanders is free. His home is the desert: the sky, the stars. He is not tethered, neither to place nor possessions, only to the desert sands – that is home and that is what he carries in his heart.”
“But to remain too long, rooted in one place, even one place so beautiful, that was not the Imuhar way – for a man who wanders is free. His home is the desert: the sky, the stars. He is not tethered, neither to place nor possessions, only to the desert sands – that is home and that is what he carries in his heart.” – Lenny by Laura McVeigh”