B Quotes
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“But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?”
Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...
“But who guards the guardians?”
“But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs.”
Source: Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel
“But who, in these modern times, slept well?”
Source: Version Control
“But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls?”
Source: Closing the Ring
“But who is Aslan? Do you know him?"
"Well-he knows me," said Edmund. "He is the great Lion, the son of the Emperor-beyond-the-Sea, who saved me and saved Narnia.”
Source: The voyage of the Dawn Treader
“But who is ever able to apply to her own current love affair a word like "similar"?”
“But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine.”
“But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?”
Source: Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel
“But who is stronger than death? Me , evidently .”
“But who is this self that is to be renounced and to have no benefit? It seems that *you* yourself are supposed to be it. And for whose benefit is unselfish self-renunciation recommended to you? Again, for *your* benefit and behoof, only through that unselfishness you are procuring your "true benefit." You are to benefit *yourself*, and yet you are not to seek *your* benefit”
Source: The Ego and Its Own
“But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger?”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton
“But who is to decide who truly fears the Lord? The magistrate has no power to enforce religious demands. The laws of the First Table of the Ten Commandments are not regulations for a civil society or a political order. They belong to the realm of religion, not politics.”
“But who knows? For a woman, who once was a yearning of the Mesmerizer, anything is possible.”
Source: The Oldest Dance
“But who knows what good might come from the least of us? From the bones of old horses is made the most beautiful Prussian Blue.”
“But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and the walls of her bower closing in about her, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in?”
Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
“But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.”
“But who made the law that we should not hope in our daughters? We women subscribe to that law more than anyone. Until we change all this, it is still a man's world, which women will always help to build.”
Source: The Joys of Motherhood
“But who names a starship the Icarus? What kind of man possess that much hubris, that he dares it to fall?”
Source: These Broken Stars
“But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?”
Source: The autobiography of Mark Twain: including chapters now published for the first time
“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
Source: Autobiographical Writings
“But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?”
“But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?”
Source: The Prelude: Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind (text of 1805)
“But who wants an easy life ? It's boring !”
“But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.”
Source: Three Men in a Boat
“But who wants to hang aroundfrat guys ? I want to be with guys who have more on their minds than where the next keg party is. I want to be with guys who care about making this world a better place-the way Andrew does. I want to be with guys who know that what's important isn't the size of a girl's waistband but the size of her heart-like Andrew. I want to be with guys who are able to see past a girl's outward appearance, and into her soul-like Andrew.”
Source: Queen of Babble Bundle with Bonus Material
“But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed, Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed, Since time began we've crucified and burned”
Source: Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy ; with the Unpublished Scenarios for the Walpurgis Night and the Urfaust
“But who will find him if he's lost? Who will find the little boy?
Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again.”
Source: The Road
“But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!”
Source: The Poems
“But who would build the roads if there were no government?
You mean to tell me that 300 million people in this country and 7 billion people on the planet would just sit around in their houses and think “Gee, I’d like to go visit Fred, but I can't because there isn’t a flat thing outside for me to drive on, and I don’t know how to build it and the other 300 million or 7 billion people can’t possibly do it because there aren’t any politicians and tax collectors. If they were here then we could do it. If they were here to boss us around and steal our money and really inefficiently build the flat places, then we would be set. Then I would be comfortable and confident that I could get places. But I can’t go to Fred’s house or the market because we can’t possibly build a flat space from A to B. We can make these really small devices that enable us to contact people from all over the word that fits in our pockets; we can make machines that we drive around in, but no, we can’t possibly build a flat space.”
“But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!”
“But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant”
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
“But who would have thought the old man would have had so much blood in him!”
“But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?”
“But who you are is not a concept in the sky, and it's not a record of you accomplishments either. The most original and creative side of you can re-emerge only when you get time of your own, free time, wide-open time, uncommitted time, time in which to go after dreams or do absolutely nothing if you choose. Without it you can't have a self.”
“But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience?”
“But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover.”
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
“But who, in the Western world, has not been deranged by a toxic cocktail of dissatisfaction, restlessness, desire and resentment? Who has not yearned to be younger, richer, more talented, more respected, more celebrated, and, above all, more sexually attractive? Who has not felt entitled to more and aggrieved when more was not forthcoming? It is possible that a starving African farmer has less sense of injustice than a middle-aged Western male who has never been fellated.”
Source: The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy
“But whoever develops mindfulness of death, thinking, 'O, that I might live for the interval that it takes to swallow having chewed up one morsel of food... for the interval that it takes to breathe out after breathing in, or to breathe in after breathing out, that I might attend to the Blessed One's instructions. I would have accomplished a great deal' — they are said to dwell heedfully. They develop mindfulness of death acutely for the sake of ending the effluents.
"Therefore you should train yourselves: 'We will dwell heedfully. We will develop mindfulness of death acutely for the sake of ending the effluents.' That is how you should train yourselves.
-Manassatti sutta (AN 6.19 PTS: A iii 303)”
“But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.”
“But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?”
“But whoever heard of enchanted bacon anyway?”
“But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.”
Source: The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume I: The Early Writings
“But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.”
Source: The Holy Bible: King James Version
“But why Alaska?' I asked her. 'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut word, Alyeska. It means 'that which the sea breaks against,' and I love that. But at the time, I just saw Alaska up there. And it was big, just like I wanted to be.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“But why all these questions?
Because I'm in love and I'm afraid of suffering.
Don't be afraid, the only way to avoid that suffering would be to refuse to love.”
Source: The Zahir
“But why allow someone to make a bad choice when a little information might engender a better one? It's hard to wake up and see the sun if the blinds are pulled.”
“But why always think the worst of people? What would she be doing to herself if she adopted that attitude to life? It was better to think the best and be wrong than to think the worst and be wrong.”
Source: Slightly Dangerous
“But why an argumentation sketch? The reasons are to save time or simply to be realistic (a rigorous proof in an axiomatic system can be impossibly long), to show off, from an 'aristocratic pride' that despises the plain and the common, and so on. But there is also a philosophically relevant reason for it: every complicated problem may demand countless steps of argumentation if we want truly rigorous argumentation, but the readers may be distracted by and lost in all the trivial arguments. An argument sketch, then, may be advantageous in that it offers readers the big picture with important signposts, and a qualified reader can fill in the missing steps. This incisiveness, and the ability to see and show the big picture, I believe, is what makes the great thinkers - whether great philosophers or great scientists - great.”
Source: Against Political Equality: The Confucian Case
“But why are the Terribles turning people mean?” he asked.
“So that we fight. So that we argue. So that the world is a horrible place that we don't even want any more. I think they've started in Starkley, because it's so boring that hardly anyone ever comes here. They're testing things out and, if it works, I think they'll turn the whole world mean. And that's when they'll take over. When we're too mean to care.”
Source: Hamish and the Worldstoppers