B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But when you’re a kid, it isn’t chaos. It’s just a heartbeat. Your house isn’t floating through space, it sits on the ground. Once you get old enough you start to see that color is just paint and doors are just wood. Then, at some point, that feeling of home vanishes entirely. And… that’s what I fear. That nothing will ever make me feel like I’m safe again. That once you leave home, you never get it back.”
Source: Biome
“But when you're as old as me, you realize: the only thing left to do is let the children decide for themselves who they want to be?”
“But when you're caked in your own leavings, you don't really mind being hit with brutally hard jets of water.”
Source: Worst. Person. Ever.
“But when you're depressed, you think baloney is filet mignon. You score it, marinate it, and slap it on the grill. But when you finally bite into it, reality sets in (or is it heartburn?) and you realize it ain't steak---it's baloney.”
Source: Laughing in the Dark: A Comedian's Journey through Depression
“But when you’re Thoughtfully Fit, people problems feel easier because you work from your core. Instead of being a victim or reacting unconsciously to the situation—likely making it worse—you recognize your choices and are in control of what you do next. Instead of wasting your time and energy being frustrated by what other people are doing, you can get back to doing what you do best.”
Source: Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
“But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create.”
“But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right with the main character. At least, that's the way I do it. It's actually not that bad. Even if it is mad nerdy.”
“But when you realize that the story of your life could be told a thousand different ways, that you could tell it over and over as a tragedy, but you choose to call it an epic, that's when you start to learn what celebration is. When what you see in front of you is so far outside of what you dreamed, but you have the belief, the boldness, the courage to call it beautiful instead of calling it wrong, that's celebration.”
“But when you really believe-in yourself, in your dream-you just have to do everything you possibly can to take control and make your vision a reality. No great achievement happens by luck.”
Source: Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
“But-when you really think about it-that emotional support only applies to the experience of living in public. We don't have ways to quantify ideas like "amazing" or "successful" or "lovable" without the feedback of an audience. Nobody sits by himself in an empty room and thinks "I'm amazing." It's impossible to imagine how that would work. But being "amazing" is supposed to be what life is about. As a result, the windows of time people spend by themselves become these meaningless experiences that don't really count. It's filler. They're deleted scenes.”
Source: The Visible Man
“But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.”
“But when you set aside your beliefs and become a bit more objective, you realize that many things you didn't want to believe are indeed true.”
Source: Ernesto'nun Dağları
“But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.”
Source: Mortal Danger
“But when you started dating someone, you could never be sure what you were getting into. You had to give someone a chance to show you who he really was . . . and believe him when he did.”
Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy
“But when you take a shot at someone, you also need to examine if you are taking a shot at them or the oppressed community they are a part of.”
Source: The Shape of New Beginnings
“But when you take the Bible literally, for what it says, you have to come back to the fact that there is only one way of salvation; there's only one Savior.”
“But when you think of it, nobody really has anybody . . . we're all alone when the sun goes down . . . reading about an unconditional love that we'll never receive.”
“But when you think you're supposed to do something with it and imagine that you're the doer, that's pure delusion. Just follow your passion. Do what you love. Inquire, and have a happy life while you're doing it.”
Source: Question Your Thinking, Change the World
“But when you walked out of that building, you created a new history that we have to live in now." She did not say this as something I should be proud of, more something that I had to live with. The dart hit its mark.”
Source: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“But when you were the one and only, it meant you were alone.
Nicholas had been alone all his life.”
Source: Ink Blood Sister Scribe
“But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that’s maybe what helped me to get the part.”
“But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.”
“But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job - and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, it's pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool.”
“But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“But when you're beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things.”
“But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.”
“But when you're in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you're guiding the whole being for the moment. No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open, completely themselves when that message hits the brain and the laugh begins. That's when new ideas can be implanted. If a new idea slips in at that moment, it has a chance to grow.”
“But when you're in something together, it's very hard to be objective and you're very subjective.”
“But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.”
“But when your situation is hopeless, all you can do is turn the world upside down, transform it according to your wishes, and create anew.”
Source: Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
“But when your sword breaks, you draw your dagger.”
Source: Prince Caspian
“But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a vegetarian again. The kind of willful forgetting that I was sure meat eating required felt too paradoxical to the intellectual life I was trying to shape. I thought life could, should, and must conform to the mold of reason. You can imagine how annoying this made me.”
“But whenever Annabeth talked about the time she spent with them, I kind felt... I don’t know. Uncomfortable?
No. That’s not the word.
The word was jealous.”
Source: The Sea of Monsters
“But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.”
“But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.”
“But whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, I notice that they all seem to share a single unifying characteristic: the inability to experience the kind of mind-blowing, transcendent romantic relationship they perceive to be a normal part of living. And someone needs to take the fall for this. So instead of blaming no one for this (which is kind of cowardly) or blaming everyone (which is kind of meaningless), I'm going to blame John Cusack.”
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
“But whenever I say that I will do this or that, it looks very different when the time comes.”
Source: The Children of Húrin
“But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it particularly nasty.”
“But whenever she thanks the givers for favors great and small, she thinks of the good little sister who gave her more than they all.”
Source: Ballads for Little Folks
“But whenever tragedy strikes, one is left either to die or with a plethora of ifs and buts to ponder over.”
Source: Laiza- Sometimes the end is only a Beginning
“But when’s the last time you took a chance? Or didn’t do what someone else expected of you? Or did something you really wanted to, even though you probably shouldn’t have?”
Source: Golden
“But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.”
“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”
“but where are you going, Mamaw? I don't understand."
"Home, sweetie," my mamaw said. "I'm going home.”
Source: A Thousand Boy Kisses
“But where are you going to, Helen? Can you see? Do you know?-I believe; I have faith: I am going to God.-Where is God? What is God?-My maker and yours, who will never destroy what He created. I rely implicitly on His power, and confide wholly in His goodness: I count the hours till that eventful one arrives which shall restore me to Him, reveal Him to me.”
Source: Jane Eyre
“But where, as is the case in almost all dioceses, there exists a church in which the Virgin Mother of God is worshipped with more intense devotion, thither on stated days let pilgrims flock together in great numbers and publicly and in the open give glorious expression to their common Faith and their common love toward the Virgin Most Holy.”
Source: Fulgens Corona: On the Marian Year and the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception
“But where did this veneration of childbirth come from? I missed that meeting. Childbirth is wonderful, childbirth is a miracle. Wrong. It's no more a miracle than eating food and a turd coming out your ass.”
“But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.”
“But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you're worth?”
“But where do you live mostly now?" With the lost boys." Who are they?" They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way. If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expanses. I'm captain." What fun it must be!" Yes," said cunning Peter, "but we are rather lonely. You see we have no female companionship." Are none of the others girls?" Oh no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.”