B Quotes
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“But yes. Come, faulty dragon people. Follow us.”
“But yet creation's neither crammed nor blocked
About by body: there's in things a void-
Which to have known will serve thee many a turn,
Nor will not leave thee wandering in doubt,
Forever searching in the sum of all,
And losing faith in these pronouncements mine.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)
“But, yet, even this tranquility
Brings bitter, restless thoughts to me.”
Source: The Night is Darkening Round Me
“But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.”
“But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live.”
“But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion; and no light in the understanding is good which does not produce holy affection in the heart: no habit or principle in the heart is good which has no such exercise; and no external fruit is good which does not proceed from such exercises.”
Source: A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections: A Reprint from the Worcester Edition, Without Alteration, Mutilation, Or Omission
“But yet my love and yet my hate shall civilize this land,
this land's salvation”
“But yet, O Lord! confess I must,
At times I'm fash'd wi' fleshly lust:
An' sometimes too in warldly trust,
Vile self gets in;
But Thou remembers we are dust,
Defil'd wi' sin.”
“But yet they that have no Science , are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence; than men, that by their mis-reasoning, or by trusting them that reason wrong, fall upon false and absurd generall rules.”
Source: Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition
“But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ... woe unto those who attack it on the grounds that they simply don't understand history and the yearning of human souls ... woe in fact unto those who make evil movies about the Beat Generation where innocent housewives are raped by beatniks! ... woe unto those who spit on the Beat Generation, the wind'll blow it back.”
“But yet, I say, if imputation and strong circumstances, which lead directly to the door of truth, will give you satisfaction, you may have it.”
Source: The dramatic works and poems of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of Steevens and Malone, with life, and historical, critical, and explanatory notices by A. Cunningham, a glossary and illustrations
“But yield who will to their separation,
My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.”
“But Yossarian knew he was right, because, as he explained to Clevinger, to the best of his knowledge he had never been wrong.”
Source: Catch-22
“But you ain't part of it, are you?" said Granny conversationally. "You try, but you always find yourself watchin' yourself watchin' people, eh? Never quite believin' anything? Thinkin' the wrong thoughts?”
“But you also are facing an uphill battle if you are trying to be the first teacher who asks students to think in class and they are already 16 years old.”
“But you also can't ignore the thing that keeps your soul alive, because I believe God puts that sort of stuff in us for a reason. That He speaks to us through it. God is faithful, and when He calls you to something, He will also give you the means, even if it doesn't look as expected.”
Source: The Dress Shop on King Street
“But you also have to see that love is so precious. Isn’t it nice to know that there’s someone who wants what’s best for you, no matter what?”
Source: No Home Like Nantucket
“But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.”
Source: Hemingway on Hunting
“But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.”
“But you are a different sort of girl. Not at all what I expected you to be. And this is a different sort of time. And so I am hopeful for all the things you may yet find.”
Source: These Shallow Graves
“But you are a paragon of perfection?" Cain tilts his head, appearing genuinely curious. "You live and breath and eat and sleep on the backs of those less fortunate. Your entire existence is due to the oppression of those you view to be lesser. But why you, Blood Shrike? Why did fate see fit to make you the oppressor instead of the oppressed ? What is the meaning of your life?”
Source: A Reaper at the Gates
“But you are a woman. You do not count.”
Source: Purple Hibiscus
“But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.”
“But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face lights up my world as no other can - well, this feeling too, when viewed as the mere psychologist has to view it, appears to be simply what all the other friends report about their friends.”
Source: The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown
“But you are also the biggest threat of all ...You are a gay person I like. Your threat is that you make being gay seem non-threatening. It's almost as if your happiness does not take mine away.”
“But you are beautiful And you better go show it So go look again You gotta be true to your own If you really wanna go to the top Do you really wanna win Don’t believe in leaving normal Just to satisfy demand ((Beauty in Ugly))”
“But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else's fate to some extent.”
Source: Eating people is wrong
“But you are like any other knight," she said bitterly. "You want to rescue the beautiful maiden in the tower."
"Well, if she's there, I suppose it's only polite to rescue her. Though I'm embarassed to say that some of my fellow knghts woud probably only be interested if the maiden had a treasure to go along with her."
"There's no treasure."
"I didn't think there was. I mostly came for answers. Or maybe just the story.”
Source: Thornhedge
“But you are making assumptions without all the facts, and that's not a sign of intelligence.”
“But you are my queen. No one but you. And I like seeing you wear it. Because as long as you do, I know you still love me. And given our history of miscommunication, physical cues are helpful.”
Source: The Last Ever After
“But you are not a lady, Jessamine—,” Charlotte began.“Dear me,” said Will. “Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.”“What I mean,” Charlotte said, correcting herself, “is that you are a Shadowhunter first, and a lady second.”
Source: Clockwork Angel
“But you are not finished. You are my masterpiece, Helene Aquilla, but I have just begun. If you survive, you shall be a force to be reckoned with in this world. But first you will be unmade. First, you will be broken.”
Source: A Torch Against the Night
“But you are not under a system similar to that by which the Jews were obliged to pay tithes to the priests. If there were any such rule laid down in the Gospel, it would destroy the beauty of spontaneous giving and take away all the bloom from the fruit of your liberality! There is no law to tell me what I should give my father on his birthday. There is no rule laid down in any law book to decide what present a husband should give to his wife, nor what token of affection we should bestow upon others whom we love. No, the gift must be a free one, or it has lost all its sweetness.”
“But you are our equal, if not our superior," the Guermantes seemed, in all their actions, to be saying; and they said it in the nicest way imaginable, in order to be loved and admired, but not to be believed; that one should discern the fictitious character of this affability was what they called being well-bred; to suppose it to be genuine, a sign of ill-breeding.”
Source: Sodom and Gomorrah
“But you are proof that you can think you know someone yet never really know them at all.”
Source: The Year I Met You
“But you are right, being stupid is not illegal. Otherwise half this town would be behind bars.”
Source: Forget You
“But you are soft and furry with rather big ears, just like a bunny rabbit.
I like my ears just fine, and I have the soft fur of a chinchilla.”
Source: The Customer At Table 5
“But you are still you I'm still me
And we are still we”
“But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.”
“But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are.”
Source: Far From the Madding Crowd
“But you are, you know, you were, the nearest thing to a real story to happen in my life”
Source: Pitch Dark
“But you became self-aware. Somehow, you began to hear the Narrator’s voice. You realised that you were a character in a story. You tried to fight. These actions have disrupted the flow of fiction.”
Source: this is how you walk on the moon: an anthology of anti-realist fiction
“But you begin to feel as you go on working that unless painting proves its right to exist by being critical and self-judging, it has no reason to exist at all - or is not even possible. The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.”
“But you bring the fire. You make even the darkness shine. Even dragon fire can’t compete with the way you burn, Pendragon.”
Source: The Bond That Burns
“But you built me dreams instead.”
“But you can be happy, if you've a mind to!”
“But you can be ready for it in a moment once a day, by just simply getting into a flow-state of wondering "What would be an exciting event today?" And then dropping that stone into Terra's gravitational space / waters knowing that your intention is already resonating on a POWERFUL amplification field. The waves are becoming greater, each moment by each next moment. That's what Psy-Amp is entirely about.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.”
Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem
“But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.”
Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead
“But you can control your body and you can control your mind. That might not sound like a lot, but it's very powerful. It can change anything.”
Source: Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart