Buts Quotes (page 141)

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• dark
• manly
• owning

But the longer a man grows in his own darkness, the more his outer form diminishespg 95 Milan Kundera

• king
• door
• place

But there was no room at the inn"; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King. Fulton J. Sheen

• hi
• difficulties
• his

But he is only stunned by the unvanquishable difficulty of his existence. Charles Dickens

• home
• girl
• sea

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. Edna St. Vincent Millay

• time
• free life
• value time

But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth? If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Carson McCullers

• first
• apostle
• lore

But Christ's lore and his apostles twelve,He taught and first he followed it himself. Geoffrey Chaucer

• weighing
• weighs
• lets

But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure. Khalil Gibran

• kindness
• patience
• new

But with the increase of serious and just ground of complaint, a new kind of patience had sprung up in her Mother's mind. She was gentle and quiet in intense bodily suffering, almost in proportion as she had been restless and depressed when there had been no real cause for grief. Elizabeth Gaskell

• eyes
• self
• light

But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. William Shakespeare

• him
• heart
• my heart

But I wouldn't get him close, and I would never show him my heart. Jodi Picoult

• mind
• mindfulness
• greatness

But please hug and kiss me, everyone, and don't mind my dress, I want a great many crumples of this sort put into it today. Louisa May Alcott

• fighting
• winning
• you

But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight. Steig Larsson

• personality
• acceptance
• personal

But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now. Haruki Murakami

• free
• personality
• people

But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way:1) Babies are illogical.2) Nobody is despised who can manage a crocodile.3) Illogical persons are despised. Therefore, babies cannot manage crocodiles. And:1) No interesting poems are unpopular among people of real taste.2) No modern poetry is free from affectation.3) All of your poems are on the subject of soap bubbles.4) No affected poetry is popular among people of taste.5) Only a modern poem would be on the... Steve Martin

• manly
• afraid
• manned

but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself Oscar Wilde