Buts Quotes (page 1106)

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• work
• comforting
• workings

The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive. Eudora Welty

• love
• words
• world

He will use the word "love", and the world will not stop spinning but go right on in its courses, like the river, like the bees, like everything. Sue Monk Kidd

• strong
• water
• rock

Water is fluid, soft & yielding but water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield ... what is soft is strong. Lao Tzu

• sometimes
• misunderstanding
• difficult

Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with. Margaret Atwood

• santa
• adulting
• adult

Like Santa Claus. You adults pretend he doesn't exist, but we know that he really does. Orson Scott Card

• lost
• eyes
• failure

If this thing's hushed up it'll be a simple denial to Jem of the way I've tried to raise him. Sometimes I think I'm a total failure as a parent, but I'm all they've got. Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I've tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.. if I connived at something like this, frankly I couldn't meet his eye, and the day I can't do that I'll know I've lost him. I don't want to lose him and Scout, because they're all I've got. Harper Lee

• mirror
• look
• nothing

Come on now, we’re going to go build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them. Ray Bradbury

• love
• lovingly
• perhaps

You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love. Marianne Williamson

• cold
• white
• dragon

Gripped with bitter cold, ice-locked, Petersburg burned in delirium. One knew: out there, invisible behind the curtain of fog, the red and yellow columns, spires, and hoary gates and fences crept on tiptoe, creaking and shuffling. A fevered, impossible, icy sun hung in the fog - to the left, to the right, above, below - a dove over a house on fire. From the delirium-born, misty world, dragon men dived up into the earthly world, belched fog - heard in the misty world as words, but here... Yevgeny Zamyatin

• thinking
• king
• stood

I'm an admirer of everything Dr. Martin Luther King stood for, but I don't think he would have stood for this Andy Rooney

• real
• humanity
• animal

Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts. When we blame a man for being "a mere animal", we mean not that he displays animal characteristics (we all do) but that he displays these, and only these, on occasions where the specifically human was demanded. (When we call him "brutal" we usually mean that he commits cruelties impossible to most real brutes; they’re not clever enough). C. S. Lewis

• hard
• road
• castle

By this time, half the people in High Norland were gathered in Royal Square to stare at the castle. They all watched with disbelief as the castle rose slightly into the air and glided toward the road that led southward. It was hardly more than an alley, really. "It'll never fit!" people said. But the castle somehow squeezed itself narrow enough to drift away along it and out of sight. The citizens of High Norland gave it a cheer as it went. Diana Wynne Jones

• beauty
• life
• top

Life is a climb but once you get to the top you'll realize that the view is beautiful!! Miley Cyrus

• she
• quality
• sobriety

She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them. Jane Austen

• success
• moving
• men

Achievement seems to be connectedwith action. Successful men andwomen keep moving. They makemistakes, but they don't quit. Conrad Hilton