B Quotes
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“But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.”
Source: This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate
“But we need to be vigilant that emotions do not cripple us.”
Source: The Rosie Project
“But we need to pray daily for humility and honesty to see these sinful attitudes for that they really are, and then for grace and discipline to root them out of our minds and replace them with thoughts pleasing to God.”
Source: The Pursuit of Holiness
“But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.”
“But we need to search for and find, what we need to own and perfect into a magnificent, shining thing, is a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governments, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of forcing accountability. The politics of slowing things down. In the present circumstances, I'd say the only thing worth globalizing is dissent.”
Source: The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture
“But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.”
Source: Picture of Dorian Gray
“But we never learn what it goes to show, because he never got to finish the letter.
He never got to finish a lot of things.
We want to say he died like a hero. We want to say he was brave until the end. And maybe he was. Maybe he was.
But he was also just a kid. He was a scared kid who died far from home, in a country that wasn't his, a country that took his blood and his weight and is tears and didn't give him back to us.”
Source: We Are Not Free
“But we never tell the truth. We cannot properly 'tell' the truth, because our words are crude tools to express something, 'the truth', which may well exist, but which we cannot define.”
“But we protect our spouses from things that cause actual harm—abuse, violence—not our inherent vulnerabilities and needs. Those are there for them to love and complement. If not,” she says pointedly, “it comes at the cost of our intimacy, our connection…our love.”
Source: Ever After Always
“But we rarely notice this: that we’re walking around in someone else’s shoes.”
Source: The Definitions
“But we're a university! We have to have a library!" said Ridcully. "It adds tone. What sort of people would we be if we didn't go into the library?"
"Students," said Senior Wrangler morosely.”
Source: The Last Continent
“But we're going to make the lightest, fluffiest pancakes, and if we don't have any fruit syrup today, then we'll just use good old maple syrup."
"Go for Grade A dark amber," said Oliver. "It's rich and velvety."
"And very good for dipping apples in," Troy said, pointing to his FarmFresh shirt.
Gus handed Carmen some eggs. "Separate those out," she told her, "because when I make pancakes, I always fluff the whites separately. Then I fold them in when the batter is mixed..."
"And that's how you keep them high and light," said Carmen.”
Source: Comfort Food
“But we’re just kids she thought For the moment yes But we are talking about the future You really think we’ll still need a Black Swan that many years from now Yes I believe we will always need a Black Swan The world has gotten too complicated to leave any one group solely in charge There needs to be a system of checks and balances We do hope to someday work hand in hand with the Council But even if that never happens we should be there to keep them honest”
Source: Neverseen
“But we're talking about America here, where babies grow up to be even bigger babies, and all we really get along the way is incurable anxiety and crippling student loan debt.”
Source: Everything Is Awful: And Other Observations
“But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.”
“But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future.”
“But we remember that it was just precisely in the reign of Richard II that the Peasants' War, following upon the changes wrought by the visitations of the Great Plague, virtually destroyed serfdom as a personal status.”
Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919
“But we reservation Indians don’t get to realize our dreams. We don’t get those chances. Or choices. We’re just poor. That’s all we are.
It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor. You start believing that you’re poor because you’re stupid and ugly. And then you start believing that you’re stupid and ugly because you’re Indian. And because you’re Indian you start believing you’re destined to be poor. It’s an ugly circle and there’s nothing you can do about it.
Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.”
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“But we ride on horses tall and swift,' said Theoden; 'and great though your heart be, you cannot ride on such beasts.'
'Then tie me on to the back of one, or let me hang on a stirrup, or something,' said Merry. 'It is a long way to run; but run I shall if I cannot ride, even if I wear my feet off and arrive weeks too late.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings
“But we shall never be far from each other, he thought, always alone but never lonely.”
Source: Laughing Boy
“But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.”
Source: The Hovering Fly: And Other Essays
“But we-' she glanced at him as if to ascertain his position, 'we see each other only now and then-'
'Like lights in a storm-'
'In the midst of a hurricane,' she concluded, as the window shook beneath the pressure of the wind.”
Source: Night and Day
“But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru? Why are we supposed to be psychiatrists? Isn't it enough to write and tell the truth? It's not like telling the truth is common. Writers are the earthworms of society. We aerate the soil. That's enough.”
“But we should be wary of restricting the idea of meaningful work too tightly, of focusing only on the doctors, the nuns of Kolkata or the Old Masters. There can be less exalted ways to contribute to the furtherance of the collective good and it seems that making a perfectly formed stripey chocolate circle which helps to fill an impatient stomach in the long morning hours between nine o'clock and noon may deserve its own secure, if microscopic, place in the pantheon of innovations designed to alleviate the burdens of existence.”
Source: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
“But we should not cling! A plague upon fundamentalists and literalists! I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster - the girls dance and dance and dance with their sweet lord, who has made himself so abundant as to be in the arms of each and every girl. But the moment the girls become possessive, the moment each one imagines that Krishna is her partner alone, he vanishes. So it is that we should not be jealous with God.”
Source: Life of Pi
“But we should not lose sight of how far we are coming and what a big hole we were left by George W. Bush.”
“But we should open our eyes to the many ways in which hypervigilance keeps them penned in from the more liberated life they deserve to live and that in turn would prepare them for adulthood.”
Source: How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
“But we should search for the strange and surprising in the world, not within ourselves! To search within, to think so long and hard about our own selves, would only make us unhappy. This is what had happened to the characters in my story: for this reason heroes could never tolerate being themselves, for this reason they always wanted to be someone else.”
Source: The White Castle
“But we still find the world astounding, we can't get enough of it; even as it shrivels, even as its many lights flicker and are extinguished (the tigers, the leopard frogs, the plunging dolphin flukes), flicker and are extinguished, by us, by us, we gaze and gaze. Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in, for one last time, we want to eat the world with our eyes.”
“But we suffer for because love is worth it.”
Source: Chain of Gold
“But we survived, and we're a good family. I just don't want to dedicate one more tear, or watch my mother cry one more time.”
“But we survived, didn’t we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it’s a tragedy.”
Source: The Keys to the Kingdom #3: Drowned Wednesday
“But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.”
“But we think as people and countries, not as a species.”
“But we think that if a human were to violate conventional causality—'
'By time traveling—'
'Please, please don't call it that. If a human were to violate causality, the experience from her point of view would be similar. You would act while in the past, but not be able to recall your actions later, because that period of time for you would be lost between histories: the old one you left and the new one to which you would return. It would exist outside of the normal course of events. It would be, in a very real sense, lost time.”
Source: Version Control
“But we trick ourselves into thinking our worry is protective or preventative, that working through every possible scenario somehow prepares us for the worst. But our negativity does not immunize us against the fallout or stress of the worst-case scenarios when they arrive.”
Source: Hold On, But Don't Hold Still
“But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.”
“But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.”
“But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp.”
“But we were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure.”
Source: A Clockwork Orange
“But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.”
Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5
“But we were at your parents' dining table." I stare up at him, completely bewildered.
"No one's ever said no to me before. And it's so - hot.”
Source: Fifty Shades of Grey
“But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.”
Source: AFRICAN GENISIS
“But we were different now. I wanted only his pain, and judging from the girl he’d come home with last night, Madoc was still the same. A user.”
Source: Rival
“But we were doing plays and movies which I had nothing to do with other than being a producer, and I don't have that kind of interest or time any more.”
“But we were essentially both going through the same thing, and as long as we stayed strong, it would happen eventually, right? For some reason, life had just thrown everything at us, one thing after another. We needed to remain positive; we were going to get the house of our dreams and start building a family, just like we'd wanted.”
Source: The Woman He Left Behind
“But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past.”
Source: The English Patient
“But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.”
Source: His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers
“But we were never lone and never afraid when we were together. I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started. But with Catherine there was almost no difference in the night except it was an even better time. If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
Source: A Farewell to Arms
“But we were not orphans, we were children of the world, and we could see what was beautiful in the world, so why would we remain slaves?”
Source: the Poppy fields near the French countryside: Sappho edition