Buts Quotes (page 609)

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• proposal
• rebel
• exercise

Not that he [Uzbek] rejected Mendel's proposals or rebelled against his decisions; but he exercised a subtle, passive abrasion against every active thrust: like dust in a watch, Mendel thought to himself. He's got dust in him, even though he is young. It's stupid to say the young are strong. You understand many things better at thirty than at twenty and you can also bear them better. Primo Levi

• love
• she
• age

She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives. Pat Conroy

• students
• teacher
• best teacher

Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students. Robbie Williams

• moments
• memories
• wonder

It wasn't that long, and it certainly wasn't the kind of kiss you see in movies these days, but it was wonderful in its own way, and all I can remember about the moment is that when our lips touched, I knew the memory would last forever. Nicholas Sparks

• heart
• help
• manly

No one but a women can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart..."~Quincey Morris Bram Stoker

• lost
• may
• know

I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost. A. A. Milne

• affection
• betrayal
• revenge

Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we have betrayed, we needn't worry so much about the good and the bad in us. But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination ... then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse. Graham Greene

• time
• question
• drawing

the brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives; and this makes his life at times a questionable good even to him who has not recognised this character of constant anaihilation in the whole of life. Arthur Schopenhauer

• heart
• forever
• vanish

Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart. L. M. Montgomery

• forgiveness
• brother
• week

We forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old resentment blazing away as if nothing had been done about it at all. We need to forgive our brother seventy times seven not only for 490 offences but for one offence. C. S. Lewis

• together
• living
• another

We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves. Aldous Huxley

• dream
• different
• living

I live in my dreams? that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference. Herman Hesse

• love
• life
• evening

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• heart
• imagination
• hearts

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. George Bernard Shaw

• helpful
• wisdom
• loser

O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser. Robert Baden-Powell