B Quotes
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“but with great attachment comes the pain of great loss”
Source: Miss Marley
“But with her eyes closed, she began to whisper. “If you have someone to love, then love. If you have someone to forgive, then forgive. You think, when you’re seventeen, there’s time enough for that, but there’s not. There’s no time at all.”
I squeezed her hand, trying to think of how to respond. But she took the burden from me and kept whispering. “You want to know why God gave us people to love? Because that’s the only way we can understand how he feels about us. Desperate and jealous.”
Source: Perfect Glass
“But with her I would have been faithful, with her my whole life would have been different, less rootless, less empty.”
Source: The Sea, The Sea
“But with increasing technology, another danger looms on the horizon. The more technologically advanced we become, we also become more efficient at manufacturing weapons of mass destructions”
Source: Reality
“But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference.”
“But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.”
Source: Between Dawn and Sunrise
“But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.”
“But with morning cool repentance came.”
“But with my friends--I'm not broken. I'm just me.”
“But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder.”
“But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story”
“But with one exception, all things pass from this world and time erases not just memories but entire civilizations, reducing everyone and every monument to dust. The only that survives is love, for it is an energy as enduring as light, which travels outward from its source toward the ever-expanding boundaries of the universe, the very energy of which all things were conceived and with which all things will be sustained in a world beyond this world of time and dust and forgetting".”
Source: Innocence
“But with period clothes, people know less so they accept the pretty drawing that I give them.”
“But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.”
“But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this;-we can perceive that events are brought about, not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular ease, but by the establishment of general laws.”
“But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence
“But with respect to religion itself, without regard to names, and as directing itself from the universal family of mankind to the divine object of adoration, it is man bringing to his maker the fruits of his heart; and though these fruits may differ from each other like the fruits of the earth, the grateful tribute of everyone is accepted.”
Source: Rights of Man
“But with so many books in the house, do you still need to go borrow them from somewhere else?”
“Are you serious?” Mina’s eyes widened with surprise. “When there are so many books in the world that you could never even read them all?”
Source: Mina's Matchbox
“But with the Berlin, I was able to allow him to get near, but not quite near enough, and I knew where to draw the line with the fortresses I had set up.”
“But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques.”
“But with the increase of serious and just ground of complaint, a new kind of patience had sprung up in her Mother's mind. She was gentle and quiet in intense bodily suffering, almost in proportion as she had been restless and depressed when there had been no real cause for grief.”
Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)
“But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.”
“But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.”
Source: Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews
“But with the morning almost gone, with seven bodachs in the recreation room, with living boneyards stalking the storm, with Death opening the door to a luge chute and inviting me to go for a bobsled ride, I didn't have time to put on a victim suit and tell the woeful tale of my sorrowful childhood. Neither time nor the inclination”
Source: Brother Odd
“But with the morning came hope, and a brighter view of things.”
Source: North and South
“But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.”
“But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.”
“But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!”
“But with time that fire burned
And only ashes stayed
Because a hunger like that
Can only bring pain”
Source: Beyond the Darkness
“But with trust we can strive to accept even what we cannot understand.”
“But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!”
“But with what wonder has the season come?
Its treasure lies in earthen ships,
that carry dreams across the foam.
And how your memory of Sarah rapes
the fleshly heart that once bore scenes,
now veiled in smoky stains of tears;
it cries as on its crutches leans,
and ever fills itself with fears.
Be born anew to taste the sky
Lay waste cocoon and upwind fly.”
Source: An owl on the moon: A journal from the edge of darkness
“But with white liberals overusing the word (racism) to influence elections because they can't effectively argue the merit of an issue is weakening a very powerful tool to push back against real acts of racism.”
Source: Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: Being Black and Conservative in America
“But with whom, in the Pooh world, could a sexually and politically aroused Kanga speak?”
Source: Postmodern Pooh
“But with woodworking, it's really sort of gratifying to be able to have an actual piece to touch, and then step back and be able to share it.”
“But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.”
“But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper.”
“But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?”
“But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.”
“But without a need, even the finest piece of beef is merely a piece of dead bull is it not?”
“But without a reader, a story is only half complete. It's like blueprints that never get built; like a swimming pool without water. The foundation's there, but it's useless. Without a reader, the words just sit on the page, waiting to come alive in someone's imagination.”
Source: Off the Page
“But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demonic personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect, a soaring imagination and - until the end, when, drunk with power and success, he overreached himself - an amazing capacity to size up people and situations, there almost certainly would never have been a Third Reich.”
“But without consciously setting goals and markers for achievement, we are left feeling lost and without any value.”
“But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
“But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.”
Source: The Caged Virgin: A Muslim Woman's Cry for Reason
“But without effort [God] sets in motion all things by mind and thought.”
“But without humans, the wild would take over. It would only take a hundred years or so for nature to win again.”
Source: Stolen
“But without painful experiences, we dont grow”
“But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding of what these musical moves mean. And that is a very big problem in addressing the future of music.”