Buts Quotes (page 53)

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• lost
• beautiful
• game

But that was the beauty of this particular game. The moment you lost, you won. Paul Auster

• courage
• heart
• she

But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, "Courage, dear heart," and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan's, and with the voice a delicious smell breathed in her face. C. S. Lewis

• words
• god
• forgiveness

But we had with us, to keep and to care for, more than five hundred bruised bodies of men- men made in the image of God, marred by the hand of man and must we say in the name of God? And where is the reckoning for such things? And who is answerable? One might almost shrink from the sound of his own voice, which had launched into the palpitating air words of order- do we call it? - fraught with such ruin. Was it God's command we heard or His forgiveness we must forever implore? Joshua Chamberlain

• business
• busy
• job

But no one was asking me. I was here to do a job, and gray steel lockers or pale peach jukebox was no business of mine. Haruki Murakami

• regret
• she
• looking back

But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better.-Jing-mei Amy Tan

• wisdom
• desperate
• characteristics

But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. Henry David Thoreau

• alcohol
• genius
• addictions

But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius. Truman Capote

• regret
• best
• experience

But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives. Haruki Murakami

• progress
• bad
• clock

But that would be putting the clock back," gasped the Governor. "Have you no idea of progress, of development?"I have seen them both in an egg," said Caspian. "We call it Going bad in Narnia. C. S. Lewis

• lonely
• blue
• without you

but i know blue only blue lonely blue without you Jonathan Larson

• walking
• end
• blossom

But now and then, a woman walks up, full blossom, a woman just bursting out of her dress…a sex creature, a curse, the end of it all. Charles Bukowski

• running
• words
• likes

But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. James Joyce

• pain
• feeling
• feels

But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain because they remain. Haruki Murakami

• look
• night
• little

But I was awake, sitting by the window looking down at the trailer and Mr. Zoltan's truck. I could not sleep. That is how it is with folks my age. We take naps during the day, and then we cannot sleep at night. I think that it is because God is getting us ready for the grave. Is that right? Did He ever tell you? ("The Little Stranger") Gene Wolfe

• fitness
• determination
• learning

But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That behavior required learning. In a sense, among higher animals adaptive fitness was no longer transmitted to the next generation by DNA at all. It was now carried by teaching. Michael Crichton