B Quotes
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“But you've been too busy saving the Wizarding world. Well ... I can't say I'm surprised. I knew this would happen in the end. I knew you wouldn't be happy unless you were hunting Voldemort. Maybe that's why I like you so much.”
“But you've changed,' I whisper. 'Haven't you?' It is the scorpian's nature to sting. Just because he has no opportunity doesn't mean that he cannot.”
Source: The Sweet Far Thing
“But you've got to be tough when consumed by desire, cause it's not enough just to stand outside the fire.”
“But you've got to have money for comfort, which obviously doesn't matter as much when you're young, but even so. I always like to bloody eat well and be warm. Have a drink when I want it.”
“But you've got to make choices, and you're not going to be right all the time.”
“But you've reached them, and I've always wanted to reach people. I'm the first one to say I love my fans because they love that I took a chance.”
“But you've slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.”
Source: Poison Study
“But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be one./ Time was, when you were alive, we Argives/ honored you as a god, and now down here, I see/ You Lord it over the dead in all your power./ So grieve no more at dying, great Achilles.’ I reassured the ghost, but he broke out protesting,/ ‘No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus!/ By god, I’d rather slave on earth for another man--/ Some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive—than rule down here over all the breathless dead.”
Source: Odyssey, Homer
“But you, divine poet, you sang on till the end as the swarm of rejected maenads attacked you, shrieking, you overpowered their noise with harmony, and from pure destruction arose your transfigured song.”
Source: The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition
“But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.”
Source: The Garden
“But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.”
Source: Collected Poems
“But you, you’ve always been the rain, the wind, inside my mind. I taste you when I sleep, when I wake, when I breathe.”
Source: Archangel's Kiss
“But you... You helped me find my way and take the correct path, Naruto... I always chased after you...wanting to catch up...wanting to walk together with you forever... I want to be at your side, always... You changed me, Naruto! Your smiling face saved me! And that's way I'm not afraid to die, defending you! Because... I love you.”
“But you...are my sweetest gift. The life surprise that soothed all my ills and gave me my greatest joys. I feel so blessed you are mine. —Mama Ya-Ya”
Source: Ninth Ward
“But young hearts mend easily, and hearts that own half of England have something better to do than to beat faster for love.”
Source: The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their natural sloth tempting them on the other. They are terrified at the prospect before them, of the toil required to attain exactness. The impetuosity of youth is disgusted at the slow approaches of a regular siege, and desires, from mere impatience of labour, to take the citadel by storm. They wish to find some shorter path to excellence, and hope to obtain the reward of eminence by other means, than those which the indispensable rules of art have prescribed.”
Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone
“But your art creates a window into another world. That is a true gift, to help others see the world in a different way.”
“But your best is not good enough sometimes.”... “Sometimes… you have to stop trying and just let someone else try their best. In order to survive.”
Source: The Wicker King
“But your book is wrong, Mrs. Strunk, says George, when it tells you that Jim is the substitute I found for a real son, a real kid brother, a real husband, a real wife. Jim wasn't a substitute for anything. And there is no substitute for Jim, if you'll forgive my saying so, anywhere.”
Source: A single man
“But your fame is so vast, so blinding, that people will only ever see a goddess everyone wants to fuck. And that... in itself... is a tragic story.”
Source: Beyond Passion and Dreams: Two Souls. One Fire. No Survivors.
“But your half-grin
is the only image that comes clear.
All the words lead to that”
Source: She Had Some Horses
“But your job is to work upon yourself: for this you are chosen; the rest is in the hands of God. He who humbles himself shall be exalted.”
“But your laziness leads you astray;
your greed makes you dumb;
your gluttony makes enemies for you.”
Source: Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
“But your lolas took offense at being called witches. That is an Amerikano term, they scoff, and that they live in the boroughs of an American city makes no difference to their biases. Mangkukulam was what they styled themselves as, a title still spoken of with fear in their motherland, with its suggestions of strange healing and old-world sorcery.
Nobody calls their place along Pepper Street Old Manila, either, save for the women and their frequent customers. It was a carinderia, a simple eatery folded into three food stalls; each manned by a mangkukulam, each offering unusual specialties:
Lola Teodora served kare-kare, a healthy medley of eggplant, okra, winged beans, chili peppers, oxtail, and tripe, all simmered in a rich peanut sauce and sprinkled generously with chopped crackling pork rinds. Lola Teodora was made of cumin, and her clients tiptoed into her stall, meek as mice and trembling besides, only to stride out half an hour later bursting at the seams with confidence.
But bagoong- the fermented-shrimp sauce served alongside the dish- was the real secret; for every pound of sardines you packed into the glass jars you added over three times that weight in salt and magic. In six months, the collected brine would turn reddish and pungent, the proper scent for courage.
unlike the other mangkukulam, Lola Teodora's meal had only one regular serving, no specials. No harm in encouraging a little bravery in everyone, she said, and with her careful preparations it would cause little harm, even if clients ate it all day long.
Lola Florabel was made of paprika and sold sisig: garlic, onions, chili peppers, and finely chopped vinegar-marinated pork and chicken liver, all served on a sizzling plate with a fried egg on top and calamansi for garnish. Sisig regular was one of the more popular dishes, though a few had blanched upon learning the meat was made from boiled pigs' cheeks and head.”
Source: Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love
“But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.”
Source: Northanger abbey
“But your most insidious chronic problem is in the area of, how shall I put this precisely, subordination. You argue too much.”
“No I don’t!” Miles began indignantly, then shut his mouth.
Cecil flashed a grin. “Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your…uh…” Cecil paused apparently groping again for just the right word.
“Equals?” Miles hazarded.
“Cattle.” Cecil corrected judiciously. To be driven to your will.”
Source: The Vor Game
“But your mother used to have a saying: "Pretty is pretty for a little while, but true beauty is beautiful forever."
Ella pursed her lips. "How do you know if you're pretty or if you're beautiful?"
"I'll give you a hint." He reaches out to playfully touch the tip of her nose. "You can't see beauty in a mirror.”
Source: Ella
“But your own tears blind you to mine.
I am not neglectful of friendship,
but we two squat in the same coracle,
we are both swamped by the same stormy waters,
I have not the gifts of a happy man. . . Often enough.”
Source: I Hate and I Love
“But your problems are not going to continue for the rest of your life”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“But your products and services should attract customers like pollen attracts honeybees. The value of what your business offers should be a magnet to customers.”
Source: The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic
“But your proficiency at tranquilizing the mad dogs of our numero uno justice department is nothing short of miraculous”
Source: Plausible Liars: A Dr. Lindsey McCall Medical Mystery 5
“But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.”
“But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.”
“But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.”
“But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.”
Source: Works
“But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“But you’re human, aren’t you? (Kat) I’m human, except when I first wake up in the morning. Even I don’t want to be around myself then. (Kish)”
Source: Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel
“But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists.”
Source: The Outsider
“But Zozie was already making plans- seemingly unaware of the impact of that casual word- plans for a line of handmade truffles, the simplest of all chocolates to make; and then, perhaps some mendiants- my own favorites- sprinkled with almonds, sour cherries, and fat yellow sultanas.
I could do it with my eyes closed. Even a child can make mendiants, and Anouk had often helped me in the days of Lansquenet, selecting the plumpest raisins, the sweetest cranberries (always keeping a generous portion aside for herself), and arranging them on the discs of melted chocolate, dark or light, in careful designs.”
Source: The Girl with No Shadow
“But – Michael, you said you didn’t know Oliver, and–” “I didn’t, until he killed me. We were never formally introduced.”
Source: Glass Houses
“But ‘art’ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murger’s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers, the operatic Italian model: but the poetry, above all, of linseed oil and turpentine.”
Source: Tarr
“But “no” is the button that keeps us on.”
Source: How To Fly A Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery
“But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.”
“But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.”
“But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.”
Source: Working Space
“But, after all, the sciences have made progress, because philosophers have applied themselves with more attention to observe, and have communicated to their language that precision and accuracy which they have employed in their observations: In correcting their language they reason better.”
“But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?”
Source: Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins
“But, alas! Misfortunes are too apt to wear out Friendship.”
Source: A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, youngest daughter of Colley Cibber ... Written by herself. With a portrait
“But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?”
Source: Astell: Political Writings
“But, all this while, I was giving myself very unnecessary alarm. Providence had mediated better things for me than I could possibly imagine for myself.”
Source: The Scarlet Letter