B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.”
“But when I'm done with the job I can take it off pretty easy, it's like a suit of clothes, put on something else.”
“But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.”
“But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.”
“But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.”
“But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my tumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get at”
Source: Paper Towns
“But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it.”
Source: the bell jar
“But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get." I know what she's talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It's like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don't meet up right.”
“But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get.”
Source: the bell jar
“But when it comes time to decide your fate, they'll sign you on the line right next to Satan. Cause' they don't care about us. They just use us up.”
“But when it comes to being loved, she's first/That's how I know
The first cut is the deepest.”
“But when it comes to democratic political parties, I prefer that monks and nuns not join them - in order to ensure proper democratic practice.”
“But when it comes to F1 I am a huge Lewis [Hamilton] fan because he is a super promoter of the sport. From a pure business aspect - sorry Nico if I have to say this - you are not so good for my business.”
“But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart.”
Source: Speaker for the Dead
“But when it comes to Michael Realm, I might be a little murderous. But just a little." He pinches his fingers together.”
Source: The Program
“But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do.”
“But when it has been shown by the researches of Pasteur that the septic property of the atmosphere depended not on the oxygen, or any gaseous constituent, but on minute organisms suspended in it, which owed their energy to their vitality, it occurred to me that decomposition in the injured part might be avoided without excluding the air, by applying as a dressing some material capable of destroying the life of the floating particles. Upon this principle I have based a practice.”
“But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?”
“But when it seems insurmountable, I need reminders like this that you can get used to it. That it can take on the comfort of the right choice. That lasting things do, in fact, last.”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary
“But when I’m jumping, it’s as if my feelings are going upward to the sky. Really, my urge to be swallowed up by the sky is enough to make my heart quiver. When I’m jumping, I can feel my body parts really well, too—my bounding legs and my clapping hands—and that makes me feel so, so good.”
“But when life throws us the hardest times – and when we feel the biggest pains, we know the value of little things. We become kinder by that. I’m glad you’ve been so successful despite not having your parents to back you up.”
Source: A Play of the Cosmos: Script of the Stars
“But when Lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish arts of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.”
“But when man finds something useful... he will always find a way to use it for evil means.”
Source: One Piece, Volume 28: Wyper the Berserker
“But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market... That at any rate is the theory of our constitution.”
“But when my gaze falls on my bed, I freeze, no longer worried what Nolan thinks of the pink or DR.Hoo or my unicorn collection. Instead, I hold up my hand and point at the checkerboard. Someone has made the next move.”
Source: The Haunting of Sunshine Girl
“But when my grandmother saw me plucking [my eyebrows] she said: 'Don't. You will regret it. One day you will wake up with no eyebrows and think how stupid you were. Your eyebrows are the most beautiful thing about you.'”
“But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.”
“But when my other untalented friends and I got together with some instruments it was like our world opened up. It was like zero and zero got together and made infinity.”
Source: Solanin
“But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies.”
Source: Tao: The Watercourse Way
“But when nothing in your life happens in a positive frame, it is difficult to think positively and hope for the best.”
Source: Truly, Madly, Deeply!: Memoirs of a Broken Heart's First Love!
“But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy a delight which none but those who have experienced it can understand.”
Source: Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters
“But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.”
“But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.”
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)
“But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?”
“But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.”
“But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.”
“But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.”
“But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.”
“But when oxidation nibbles more slowly - more delicately, like a tortoise - at the world around us, without a flame, we call it rust and we sometimes scarcely notice as it goes about its business consuming everything from hairpins to whole civilizations.”
Source: A Red Herring Without Mustard
“But when people don’t know what is really happening then rumors start. And that is when you need to be really careful.”
Source: All That Glitters
“But when people understand one another without speaking, it can often leave them with very little to talk about, don’t you think?”
Source: Travelling Light
“But when perfections comes, the imperfect disappears
1st Corinthians”
Source: Holy Bible: New International Version
“But when physical appearance evades the scrutiny of our senses and enters the sanctuary of our hearts, then it can forget itself. I know, from my childhood's experience, how devotion is beauty itself, in its inner aspect.”
Source: The Home and the World
“But when reality was hopeless, fantasy became more and more necessary.”
“But when reason and the study of history began revealing the irrationality, the limitations, and the merely transitory nature of the capitalist order, bourgeois ideology as a whole and with it bourgeois economics began abandoning both reason and history.”
Source: Political Econ of Growth
“But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour, odour, texture... And if we continue to dwell in thought on this world... the whole scope of observation is dwarfed into the narrow chamber of the individual mind.”
“But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up.”
“But when she finally got the wings to fly she realized she had nowhere else to go to...”
“But when she got undressed, it was a big old mess, Sheena was a man...”
“But when she looked at Prue tonight, she saw this was not now quite true of her. She was just beginning, just moving, just descending.”
Source: To the Lighthouse