B Quotes
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“But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart
“But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.”
“But woman brings disorder into society through passion.”
“But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.”
Source: The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie
“But women are always attracted to power. I do not think there could ever be a conqueror so bloody that most women would not willingly lie with him in the hope of bearing a son who would be every bit as ferocious as the father.”
“But women are coming into Wall Street in large numbers — and they still are not making partner and are not getting into the positions that lead to the executive suites. There's still an old-boy network. You just have to keep fighting.”
“But women are very differently situated with respect to eachother - for they are all rivals (...) Is it then surprising that when the sole ambition of woman centres in beauty, and interest gives vanity additional force, perpetual rivalships should ensue? They are all running the same race, and would rise above the virtue of morals, if they did not view each other with a suspicious and even envious eye.”
“But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.”
Source: Nature of the second sex
“But words - words are not enough!”
“But words are more powerful than anything.”
Source: A Gathering Light
“But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think;
’T is strange, the shortest letter which man uses
Instead of speech, may form a lasting link
Of ages; to what straits old Time reduces
Frail man, when paper — even a rag like this,
Survives himself, his tomb, and all that’s his.”
Source: DON JUAN
“But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.”
Source: DON JUAN
“But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)
“But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded.”
Source: The Miniaturist
“But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay;
Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows;
And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way.
Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,
Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
"Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.”
“But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“But words is like th spots on dice: no matter how y fumbles em,
there's times when they jes wont
come.”
“But words mattered, more so in Newark than many other places. In a world where income and possessions were limited, words represented dignity, pride, self-worth.”
Source: The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
“But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.”
“But work a year and sleep an hour, and sleep a night and sing a day, And take a little wine and love, and when you feel religious—pray.”
Source: The House of a Hundred Lights
“But work is life only when done in mindfulness. otherwise, one becomes life the person "who lives as though dead." We need to light our own torch in order to carry on. But the life of each one of us is connected with the life of those around us. If we know how to live in mindfulness, if we know how to preserve and care for our own mind and heart then thanks to that our brothers and sisters will also know how to live in mindfulness.”
Source: The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
“But work that's got real substance does make people feel, "There's someone else out there who relates to my experience, or who just helped me understand my own experience a little bit better." And I think that's still got enormous value.”
“But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.”
“But worry for a friend can make ordinary circumstances extraordinary.”
Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time
“But worse, it was a new apartment. We both knew that, in New England, old was better. Old was cozy; old, like our farmhouse, like the Pudding, had magic and charm.”
Source: Charlotte Au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood
“But worse- much, much worse- she'd run away herself.
That was unpardonable, unforgivable, unjustifiable.
Hit him, shame him, spit at him- anything but turn her back on him. She couldn't simply quit their game. That, that was not allowed.
And when he'd realized that she was out there on the stormy night moor, alone save an aristocratic lady and a goddamned bloody pony...
He growled beneath his breath.
She stilled against him, like a rabbit under a hound's jaws, her heart beating rapidly, and he was glad. She ought to be afraid of him. He was a very bad man and she was completely under his power. He could do anything to her.
Anything at all, really.
Time she learned that.”
Source: Duke of Sin
“But worse things were about to be found in the bedroom: on the jeweller’s wife’s ottoman, in a casual pose, sprawled a third party- namely, a black cat of uncanny size, with a glass of vodka in one paw and a fork, on which he had managed to spear a pickled mushroom, in the other. , The Master and Magarita”
Source: THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“But would a high school romance really be worth sacrificing our friendship? No. We were better off friends.”
Source: Better Off Friends
“But would the morning sun rise if I could not look on Michael’s face?
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Source: Small Island
“But would the young do any better under the same circumstances? Will they do any better when their turns come? The answer is that youth would not and cannot, given the financial and economic framework within which the elders are operating. While the moral convictions of individuals are important in the long run, it is institutions that determine the immediate course of events - particularly the institutions of finance.”
Source: Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals
“But would we know, whether the pretended prophet had really attained a just sentiment of morals? Let us attend to his narration; and we shall soon find, that he bestows praise on such instances of treachery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, bigotry, as are utterly incompatible with civilized society. No steady rule of right seems there to be attended to; and every action is blamed or praised, so far only as it is beneficial or hurtful to the true believers.”
Source: Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition
“But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.”
“But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!”
“but wouldn't it be easier to let go?" she whispered brokenly, desperately.
"would it be easy to carve out a piece of my heart?" he shook his head. "no, you are a part of me now, and whether or not you are in this world, know that i will forever carry a piece of you with me.”
Source: Defying Shadows
“But wouldn’t it be more effective in the end to appeal to the moral consciousness of the citizens of the wealthy and powerful nations of the world, rather than antagonize them?”
“Sure, and I suppose the fly, in navigating the web so thoughtfully spun for it, should always take care to appeal to the spider’s moral sensibilities whenever it comes skittering around.”
Source: The Subtle Cause
“But wouldn't it be lovely to watch two people fall in love?”
Source: The Shadow Queen: A Black Jewels Novel
“But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are not paying attention, which is seldom because, as writers, paying attention is what we do. We are scribes to the ticking of the days, and we have a job to do. We are not at peace unless we are doing it.”
“But writers INVITE ghosts, maybe; along with actors and artists, they are the only totally accepted mediums of our society. They make worlds that never were, populate them with people who never existed, and then invite us to join them in their fantasies. And we do it, don't we? Yes. We PAY to do it.”
Source: The Dark Half
“but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.”
Source: The world according to Garp
“But writing is a queer business. If one does anything that is sharp and keep enough to go over the line, to get itself with the work that is taken seriously, one has to have had either an unusual knowledge of or a peculiar sympathy with the characters one handles. One can’t write about what one most admires always—you must, by some accident, have seen into your character very deeply, and it is this accident of intense realization of him that give your writing about him tone and distinction, that lifts it above the commonplace, in other words”
Source: The Selected Letters
“But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“But Wututu continued to cry, walking with a heavy heart, feeling pain and anger and fear as only a child can feel it: raw and overwhelming”
Source: American Gods: Tenth Anniversary
“But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who
“play on sessions.”
“But ye gotta know where ye're just gonna rush in. Ye cannae just rush in anywhere. It looks bad, havin' to rush oout again straight awa'.”
“But yeah, like everyone else in our family, they could go from zero to murderous in a fucking heartbeat.”
Source: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
“But yeah, Ann [Trason] insisted, running was romantic; and no, of course her friends didn't get it because they'd never broken through. For them, running was a miserable two miles motivated solely by size 6 jeans: get on the scale, get depressed, get your headphones on, and get it over with. But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it, like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.”
“But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.”
“But years and miles away from home could never attenuate the city's hold on my identity, and the more I explored places and people far from Hampton, the more my status as one of its daughters came to mean to me.”
Source: Hidden Figures
“But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long.”
“But—" yelped Twizbang, “Greydor will eat us!”
Source: The Moon Coin