B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But you know, we have a very normal family. We've had our ups and downs. You know, we've had our issues, but we've had great cause for celebration.”
“But you know, we have more hits than you can possibly think about. One of my personal favorite artists is the wonderful artist named Cher. And although I love much of her late stuff, her early stuff was the stuff that I really, really loved.”
“But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson or George Washington go? Did George Washington go to college? This idea which we now have that people ought to have these credentials is really ridiculous. Where did Homer go to college?”
“But you know: you know that if I could have stayed, if I could have gone on, that I would have clutched every second: whatever it was, this death, you know that it came and took me, like a child carried away by goblins.”
Source: The Time Traveler's Wife
“But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity in the places where I have lived.”
Source: Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse
“But you lied again. Now you get to watch her leave out the window. Guess that's why they call it 'window pane.”
“But you like it, don’t you? You like me like this. You want me to take what I need. You want to be free with me, don’t you? - Nash”
Source: Everything for Us
“But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about something of value, it's not just loud. It doesn't have that violent connotation to it. I wanted to be a jazz musician so bad, but I really couldn't. There was no way I could figure out to learn how to play.”
“But you lived. You had hope.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“But you’ll never get a new ending if you keep starting with the same tired beginning.”
Source: Single-Minded
“But you'll never really feel like an American,
Ganwar says. You'll see.
Why? I ask.
Ganwar shrugs.
Because they won't let you.”
Source: Home of the Brave
“But you look happier than you have in ages, so who am I to criticise? You go for it, girl.”
Source: The Chocolate Lovers' Wedding
“But you love books, then,” Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen.
“Oh, yes,” Lestat said. “Sometimes they are the only thing that keeps me alive.”
“What a strange thing to say at your age,” she laughed.
“No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he said frankly. “And books, they offer one hope —- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that new universe, one is saved.”
Source: Blackwood Farm
“But you love her.” Will stared at him. “Of course I do,” he said finally. “I had come to think I would never love anyone, but I love her.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“But you made it for Dotty. You should keep it in the family,' I said.
Henry took my hands in his and leaned toward me. 'That’s what I’m doing.”
Source: The City Baker's Guide to Country Living
“But you made it. You believed in yourself and you made it happen and that’s all that matters.”
Source: A Song of Me and You
“But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part.”
Source: The Time Traveler's Wife
“But you make me sing like a guitar humming . . .”
“But you mark my words: I will be there when everything you love is destroyed. Everything you didn't even believe you would have.”
Source: Down the Wormhole
“But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“But you might stumble upon yourself one day. You might suddenly stop short and see yourself in a completely new light.”
Source: Sophie’s World
“But you must be awash in a sea of compliments, my lady. Every gentleman you meet must voice his admiration, his wish to make love to you. And those are only the ones who may voice such thoughts. All about you are men who cannot speak their admiration, who must remain mute from lack of social standing or fear of offending you. Only their thoughts light the air about you, following you like a trail of perfume, heady but invisible. (Winter Makepeace)”
Source: Thief of Shadows
“But you must be patient and careful; nor should you expect to become an accomplished archer without long and severe training.”
Source: The witchery of archery
“But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.”
“But you must give people time. The world can't be remade in a day."
"The world won't ever be remade, if no one tries to remake it. Change must begin somewhere.”
Source: Pope Joan
“But you must have grown out of
a thousand years dreaming
just like I could never imagine you.
You must have
broke open from another sky
to here, because
now I see you as a part of the millions of
other universes that I thought could never occur
in this breathing.
And I know you as myself, traveling.
In your eyes alone are many colonies of stars
and other circling planet motion.”
Source: She Had Some Horses
“But you must love with a sublime , genuine , profound sympathy , with devotion, with intelligence , and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. That will lead to God , that will lead to an unshakeable faith .”
Source: Vincent van Gogh
“But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need.”
“But you must not think I don't like good music. I adore it, but I am afraid of it. It makes me too romantic.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“But you must promise me that you'll never sell it again, whatever happens. If you need money, come to me?”
Source: The Only Way Is Up
“But you must remember, Mr. Thornton, no choices are free choices for a lady. We are always compelled in one way or another.”
Source: A Dangerous Man to Trust?
“But you must remember that they are Viennese and nobody is good enough for the Viennese.”
Source: The Fortune Hunter
“But, you must remember, whatever you eat, make sure you have at least one bowl of salad with it.”
Source: The Spirit of Imagination
“But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.”
Source: Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life
“But you must still know to respect other people's faith.'
'Why? We don't respect any other delusion. We lock up people who believe they're Christ, yet we're supposed to humour those who believe in him.'
'By definition, faith is irrational: a belief you hold against the normal rules of evidence.'
'In which case I believe in Jedi”
Source: The Enemy of the Good
“But you must stop playing among his ghosts -- it's stupid and dangerous and completely pointless. He's trying to lay them to rest here, not stir them up, and you seem eager to drag out all the sad old bones of his history and make them dance again. It's not nice, and it's not fair.”
“But you need to cultivate patience, youngling. And you need to listen to my words of wisdom, because as far as you are concerned, I am Obi-Wan fucking Kenobi. Okay?”
Source: Something Coming Through
“But you need to have lived years in nothingness to understand how a person can suddenly become frightened by a possibility.”
Source: Delicacy
“But you need to strive to try and communicate and try and change things in a similar way. And then people can think that's pretentious or whatever, but it's your life's work, and you've decided that. That's what they made us believe. So we have a pretty high standard, which is at times great and at times not.”
“But you never knew where the bombs would fall in the dark, so night bombing was even more frightening than daylight bombing. Let’s just say, it scared the living daylights out of us!”
Source: Uncle Hitler: A Child's Traumatic Journey Through Nazi Hell to the Safety of Britain
“But you never read novels, I dare say?
Why not?
Because they are not clever enough for you — gentlemen read better books.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
Source: Northanger abbey
“But You never reject a repentant and humble heart.”
Source: How to Converse with God
“But you never said anything! Not one frigging word, Lara Jean!”
Automatically I say, “Don’t say ‘frig.’ ”
“Not one frigging word,” Kitty repeats with a shake of her head.
Peter cracks up, and I give him a dirty look. “It all happened really fast,” he offers. “There was barely time to tell anybody—”
“Was I talking to you?” Kitty snaps. “No, I don’t think so. I was talking to my sister.”
Peter’s eyes widen, and I can see him trying to keep a straight face.”
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
“But you – no, there’s all manner of things you think but don’t say. I wonder what they are?”
Source: Girl With a Pearl Earring
“But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.”
“But you, O God, are worth a trillion hassles and I will not give up!!Your strength is my strength. Help me, even if the whole world is against me, you will never abandon me. I will accomplish my purpose as long as I'm breathing. Take my right hand and comfort me.”
Source: The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey
“But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.”
Source: Just Listen: A Novel
“But you pashed Jonah Griggs and he's the leader of the enemy.”
“But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.”
Source: Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence
“But you play that passage like it's the -memory- of love. You're so young, yet you know desertion, abandonment. That's why you play that third movement the way you do. Most cellists, they play it with joy. But for you, it's not about joy, it's about the memory of a joyful time that's gone for ever.”
Source: Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall