Buts Quotes (page 119)

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• people
• useless
• bad

But the greatest cause of verbicide is the fact that most people are obviously far more anxious to express their approval and disapproval of things than to describe them. Hence the tendency of words to become less descriptive and more evaluative; then become evaluative, while still retaining some hint of the sort of goodness or badness implied; and to end up by being purely evaluative -- useless synonyms for good or for bad. C. S. Lewis

• men
• door
• open

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord."It might to keep it open. Ursula K. Le Guin

• strong
• freedom
• freedom and liberty

but now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak. Will Durant

• mind
• busy
• enough

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment. David Sedaris

• rebel
• heart
• wellness

But now, as it is, sorrows, unending sorrows must surge within your heart as well—for your own son’s death. Never again will you embrace him stiding home. My spirit rebels—I’ve lost the will to live, to take my stand in the world of men— Homer

• earth
• ever
• poet

But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily? Plato

• evening
• love
• water

But love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through whichonly a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control. Paulo Coelho

• walking
• evening
• even

But you can’t quit, either. Even if you have to walk to the finish line… ~ Linda Armstrong Lance Armstrong

• time
• feeling
• thinking

But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, "alright sucker, now what? Peter S. Beagle

• embellish
• only
• embellishment

But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts. Louise Erdrich

• words
• lifetime
• broken

But nobody in one lifetime could read more than a fragment of what was here, this broken labyrinth of words, this shattered, interrupted story of a people and a world through the centuries, the millennia. Ursula K. Le Guin

• time
• believe
• past

But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors. George McGovern

• look
• home
• beauty

But now, his liberated eyes stayed on this side, he saw and became aware of the visible, sought to be at home in this world, did not search for the true essence, did not aim at a world beyond. Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike Herman Hesse

• dance
• people
• tunes

But don't hunt for dissonance: There is no such thing; People dance to all tunes. Antonio Machado

• small
• free
• doctor

but that in case of Dr. Jekyll's "disappearance or unexplained absence for any period exceeding three calendar months," the said Edward Hyde should step into the said Henry Jekyll's shoes without further delay and free from any burthen or obligation beyond the payment of a few small sums to the members of the doctor's household Robert Louis Stevenson