Buts Quotes (page 140)

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• children
• envy
• manly

But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?…we have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself. Adrienne Rich

• nature
• law
• ghost

But there is no such thing, sir, as a ghost, and I guess the laws of Nature are not going to be suspended for the British aristocracy Oscar Wilde

• world
• course
• perpetual motion

But utopias don't exist, of course, anywhere in any world. Like alchemy or perpetual motion. Haruki Murakami

• wall
• growing old
• little

But I, alas, do not know how to see sheep through the walls of boxes. Perhaps I am a little like the grown-ups. I have had to grow old. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• effects
• effecting
• causes

But the cause didn't matter. All that mattered was the effect. Stephenie Meyer

• moving
• dark
• tears

But Fuchsia might as well have been carved from dark marble. Only her tears moved. Mervyn Peake

• god
• manly
• invented

But man invents nothing God did not create first. Mitch Albom

• depression
• good
• bad

But you don't have to be a bad guy to depress somebody - you can be a good guy and do it. J. D. Salinger

• life
• him
• together

But I needed this, Whit. I needed to pay him back. For stealing my life. For stealing our life together. - Celia James Patterson

• dream
• people
• moments

But this is the idlest of dreams: for I did understand perfectly well at the time that the moment the breath left the body of the Magnificent Capitaz, the Man of the People freed at last from the toils of love and wealth, there was nothing more for me to do in Sulaco. Joseph Conrad

• snow
• distractions
• fantasize

But the only thing that distracts me from my current situation is fantasizing about killing President Snow. Suzanne Collins

• feeling
• die
• will

But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

• running
• humorous
• relationship

But a system made secure by the protective plating of humor and pretense always runs the risk of having its protection get out of hand. A relationship based on jokes invites jokes; jokes about anything -- and jokes about anything are now and then bound to cut too close to the truth. Ken Kesey

• world
• wellness
• vision

But anyhow it is true that this, which is our first poem, might very well be our last poem too. It might well be the last word as well as the first word spoken by man about his mortal lot, as seen by merely mortal vision. If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• light
• soul
• walking

But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light. Sri Aurobindo