B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But you can enjoy my next announcement. As soon as I am back at my office I will start preparing something new that I can show.”
“But you can have a boyfriend and still find you... Ford might be younger, but he’s stronger and more confident in who he is. I don’t think he needs to be the center of your universe. He just wants to be part of your world.”
Source: All Grown Up
“But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you're not free.”
Source: Bread and Wine
“But you can love more than just one person, can't you?”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.”
“But you can not buy what doesn't belong to you.”
“But you can not compare Yao's stats to mine. You just can't compare it and I am playing everyone one-on-one.”
“But you can only lie about who you are for so long without going crazy.”
Source: Parrotfish
“But you can’t be a scientist if you’re uncomfortable with ignorance, because scientists live at the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos. This is very different from the way journalists portray us. So many articles begin, “Scientists now have to go back to the drawing board.” It’s as though we’re sitting in our offices, feet up on our desks—masters of the universe—and suddenly say, “Oops, somebody discovered something!”
No. We’re always at the drawing board. If you’re not at the drawing board, you’re not making discoveries. You’re not a scientist; you’re something else. The public, on the other hand, seems to demand conclusive explanations as they leap without hesitation from statements of abject ignorance to statements of absolute certainty.”
Source: Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
“But you can't be afraid to love." She looks at me seriously. "Love isn't safe and life isn't guaranteed. So yeah, I could die and you could lose Levi and your heart could hurt again, but that's just life. The only alternative--Sarah, look at me--the only alternative is living without fully loving anyone else. And that's not living at all.”
Source: Best Kind of Broken
“But you can't be too careful of these strange new ideas and new things. You must not tamper with them. If you try to understand them, they may entangle and get hold of you, and then where will you be? Hide your mind from them, and hide them from your mind. Stick to the plain common sense of life. There will always be a tomorrow rather like today. At least so far there always has been a fairly similar tomorrow. Once or twice lately there have been jolts...
Try not to notice these jolts.
'It is no good meeting trouble halfway.”
Source: You Can't Be Too Careful
“But you can't escape from heartache. That's the rub. It always finds a way back.”
Source: Brea or Tar
“But you can't ever imagine what you're going to care about when you turn into the version of you that’s waiting on the other side of five years from now. That’s a stranger waiting to ambush you, and all you can do is plant your feet and try not to get thrown.”
Source: The Past Is Red
“But you can't give up on people. It's one of the three keys of friendship. You gotta listen, you gotta care, and most importantly, you gotta keep trying.”
Source: Three Keys
“But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger the get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.”
Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories
“but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty”
Source: A Shining
“But you can’t let go of the people your heart chooses.
—heart won’t let you give up.”
Source: At The Touch Of Love: A Novel
“But you can’t mean—” gasped Rainsford.
“And why not?”
“I can’t believe you are serious, General Zaroff. This is a grisly joke.”
“Why should I not be serious? I am speaking of hunting.”
“Hunting? Good God, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder.”
Source: The Most Dangerous Game
“But you can’t outrun the membrane — he was soon gone.”
Source: Membrane
“But you can't see it, can you? This river of blood I sunk in and the massive pile of corpses beneath my feet! You probably can't. Your eyes can't possibly see such disarray.”
Source: The Hummingbird Effect
“But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that's us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and the dust years and the drought years are us. We can't start again. The bitterness we sold to the junk man - he got it all right, but we have it still. And when the owner men told us to go, that's us; and when the tractor hit the house, that's us until we're dead. To California or any place - every one a drum major leading a parade of hurts, marching with our bitterness. And some day - the armies of bitterness will all be going the same way. And they'll all walk together, and there'll be a dead terror from it.”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“But you can tell so much about someone from what they wear.”
Source: Paris for One and Other Stories
“But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.”
“But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.”
Source: Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
“But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.”
Source: My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography
“But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“But you can't extend, or go beyond any point musically, without the basic fundamentals.”
“But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.”
“But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition
“But you can't get to the place you most want to be without taking a chance.”
Source: Waiting For You
“But you can't just sit around the fireplace and sip Cokes and eat pretzels and get an attitude of confidence. You have to put in hard work.”
“But you can't kill humans It's-- Evil? The world is evil Risika. Wolves hunt the stragglers in a group of deer. Vultures devour the fallen.Hyenas destroy the weak. Humans kill that which they fear. Survive and be strong, or die, cornered by your prey, trembling because the night is dark.”
Source: In the Forests of the Night
“But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.”
Source: Mistborn Trilogy
“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“But you can't make someone be something they're not.”
“But you can't marry someone to fix him, even if you love them.”
Source: Bone Crossed
“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.”
Source: Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen
“But you can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, whirled the leaves. ("The North")”
“But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.”
“But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.”
“but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer the questions they already ask.”
Source: The Giant's House
“But you can't start over Only a boy can start over You and me Why, we're all that's been”
“But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that's us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and the dust years and the drought years are us. We can't start again.”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“But you can't stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.”
“But you can't stop at one, you wanna drink another woman!”
“But you can't stop knowing something, can you?”
Source: By Blood
“But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first, and there's always a trace of that love left over.”
Source: Last Argument Of Kings: The First Law: Book Three
“But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably havent read them.”
“But you cannot fix someone, Cordelia, " she added. "In the end, if they can be fixed at all, they must do the repairs themselves.”
Source: Chain of Thorns
“But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It's the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden.”
Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life