B Quotes
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“But you just choose because that's where you want to be. Not because you were trying to do somebody else's job. You hear me?”
Source: The Hate U Give
“But you just got laid. Very well, I might add. Isn’t that enough to tide you over for a while?”
“Maybe for a woman. But if a man doesn’t use the goods, they shrivel up—”
She rolled her eyes.
“—and now that I’ve realized what I’ve been missing, and you’ve done such a great job getting me back up on the horse, for which I’m immensely grateful, then I think I’m ready to spread my wings.” He motioned to the wing spreading area. His groin. “This really shouldn’t go to waste, now, should it?”
Source: Taking the Score
“But you just gotta understand that that's the way it is and keep on steppin'.”
Source: The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963
“But you just said you loved me." "I do, Mer. That's the point. I can't make you like me. I can't stand the thought of you hungry or cold or scared. I can't make you a Six.”
Source: The Selection Series 4-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir
“But you just watch, little girl. I'm goin' to show 'em. In five years they'll come crawlin' to me on their bellies. I don't know what it is, but I got a kind of feel for the big money.”
Source: The Big Money
“But you kissed me!”
He wished she’d quit reminding him of that. It just made him want to do it all over again. “Devon, I give you my word, all I intend to do now is sleep.”
She studied him through narrowed eyes. “How do I know that once we’re in bed you won’t… won’t…”
“Turn into a wild, rutting beast who’s unable to control himself?” he supplied.
“Exactly,” she breathed, looking supremely relieved that he’d said it and not she.
“That’s very flattering, but I can assure you that you’re quite safe.” He waited until he saw her relax to add casually, “That only happens when the moon is full.”
Source: Captured
“But you knew what would happen. Why would you choose to walk right into a situation where you know the person is going to be hurtful? It kills me to see you do that, and you do it all the time. It's like a form of insanity. - Peter Morrow
You call it insanity, I call it optimism. - Clara Morrow”
Source: Still Life
“But you know all about that, being sorry and having no words to say something when you know you should but you just can't”
Source: The Weight of Silence: A Stunning Debut Novel of Domestic Suspense and Missing Children
“But you know, an old-fashioned Jesus-raising-the-dead style miracle would be lovely right now.”
Source: A Widow's Awakening
“But you know, as I do, that the storm will pass
And that the implacable sun doesn't simply stop
When obscured by a dark, pernicious cloud,
Which is why I know I'll return to your house-
On a Sunday that's there on the calendar-
And laugh with you over a glass of grappa.”
“But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.”
Source: Master & Commander
“But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain because they remain.”
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“But you know how easy it is to be yourself when you wear a mask.' His voice was low as his gaze held mine. 'How anything you want becomes achievable when you can pretend that no one knows who you are.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“But, you know, I'm a girl; I read the directions.”
Source: Sidelines: Talks and Essays
“But you know… I’ve always believed in the good. I really tried. But I’ve always been so afraid of the worst. My anxious mind keeps playing terrifying scenarios over and over, like a broken record. And depression… since I was a teenager, it didn’t make me a better person. It didn’t strengthen me. It just made me hunted… like a sheep surrounded by wolves. And now, I feel like I’m about to be eaten alive.”
Source: Where the Dark Knelt
“But, you know, if you choose to be with someone you should feel good with them, otherwise it doesn't make sense... How do you say in Italian? "Love's no fun without a good fight"? Don't believe it, love is no fun when it's no good! C'est facile!”
Source: Per sempre
“But you know it's hard to tell When you're in the spell if it's wrong or if it's real But you're bound to lose If you let the blues get you scared to feel”
“But You know Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to Man.”
“But you know me-I'm an information magpie, always interested in shiny bits of intel. I've never gotten in trouble because of knowing too much.”
“But you know, mon petite, what you got is a gift. And when de good Lord gives you a gift you have to use it. Dat's why he put you here on dis earth. Sometime it's gonna be to help a soul cross over to de other side to meet him. If dat's whey you gott do, den dat's what you gotta do. You can't just keep collecting de dead. You gonna have to find a way to take what you got and work wit dat.”
Source: Toe to Toe
“But you know that any showing of such an innovation is apt to start gossip. Just why, I don’t know. It, though, is a trait of Mankind only. Animals don’t ‘bloom’ out so abruptly. You can hunt through Biology, Zoology or any similar study, and find but slow, -awfully slow,— adaptations toward any form of variation. Hurrying was not known until Man got around.”
Source: Gadsby
“But you know the difference between sex and love. And sex can be part of love, but what moves your heart, what's really intimate, that's the real spirit. And that's very personal, it's also transpersonal. It's not impersonal, it's beyond any of us, it's transcendent of any of us, yet imminent in dwelling, imminent to each of us.”
“But you know the second month I was here I put out a healthy lifestyles directive. The pundits will say it was because we were sued. Well that's what they say. It was never about that.”
“But you know... This was actually fun while it lasted. Humans, Jujutsu Sorcerers, Cursed Spirits... You're not bad compared to those I fought over the last thousand years. Stand proud. You're strong.”
Source: 呪術廻戦 13 [Jujutsu Kaisen 13]
“But you know what cats are like. The place they are is usually the place they want to be.”
Source: A Little Bit Witchy
“But you know what else never happened to me?"
"Tell me," he ordered, still...freaking...grinning.
"Seeing him just a day later in a clinch with a brunette."
"You knew me, you'd know she didn't have staying power and you'd know you do."
"And how's that?" I snapped.
"She's dark, you're red. I'll fuck dark, I'll fuck sun but only red has staying power. Considered sun once. Lost her. Now it's you.”
Source: Motorcycle Man
“But you know what I'm trying to say, it's that there's a couple of really dangerous drugs out there and I've lost some friends to them.”
“But you know what? Peace is just an idea. There will never be peace on Earth, at least, not the kind of kumbaya-harmony people envision. There can be ceasefires and treaties, but we will never know true peace. That's the sad truth of the world.”
Source: The Henry Sessions
“But you know what's worse than suffering? Not suffering, because you're not even alive to feel it.”
Source: She Who Became the Sun
“But you know what? There will always, always be a darkness to balance the light. There will always be a negative to every positive. But here's the thing. It only takes one light to banish the darkness of an entire world...”
“But you know what they say about Gutshot: the population never goes up and never goes down, because every time a woman gets pregnant, a man leaves town.”
Source: An Abundance of Katherines
“But you know what, honestly? I'm not that interested in advertising. I think it's a great way... It's such a huge part of our culture. It's like saying, "Are you interested in hair?" It's such a part of our life, and it's such a reflection of how we feel about ourselves, and what we're interested in, and what we want to be.”
“But you know what? It's not my behavior I'm worried about anymore. It's yours.”
Source: Uglies Quartet: Uglies; Pretties; Specials; Extras
“But you know what? There's far more pain involved in rolling over, far more pain in hiding.”
“But you know what? When I die, everybody is invited to come take a selfie at my funeral. Except for my enemies. They're not invited to the funeral, period.”
“But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is that minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.”
Source: Scarlett: the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind
“But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being.”
“But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.”
“But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.”
“But you know, eventually that does kind of veneer, chemical veneers that you apply, they sink in. For better or for worse, so it's good to think about what kind of veneer you shellac yourself with. How superficial it may seep into your skin and into your blood stream and totally take over your heart, your brain, everything.”
“But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.”
“But you know, I'm just not a quitter.”
“But you know, I'm not 25 anymore, and I have always said musical theater in particular is a young person's game. It requires energy, mentally and physically, to do it.”
“But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.”
“But you know, I'm very conscious that people criticize Hollywood. Yet we've created a form, the Western, that can be understood in every country. The good guys against the bad guys. No nuances. And the horse is the best vehicle of action in our medium. You take action, a scene, and scenery, and cut them together, and you never miss.”
“But you know, if you live an affluent lifestyle, there are all types of trappings that are there that you have to be cognizant of, and you've got to try and communicate freely and gain understanding about and then keep moving on, because you know, sometimes lifestyles are chosen for us as opposed to us choosing them.”
“But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.”
“But you know, our show is our show, and it's not for everybody.”
“But you know, really, if you think about it Roger and I and all critics really have one absolute essential part of our credentials and that is that you believe that that is actually what we think.”
“But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me.”