Buts Quotes (page 64)

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• fall
• people
• falling

But that which pleases us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who are falling. Victor Hugo

• heart
• hearted
• hearts

But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue. William Shakespeare

• alone
• being alone
• distasteful

But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence. M. F. K. Fisher

• silence
• turned
• log

But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota. Sarah Vowell

• evil
• chicken
• manifesting

But this was no ordinary chicken. This chicken was evil manifest. Terry Goodkind

• sea
• dream
• weather

But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. And perhaps, at mid-day, in the fairest weather, with one half-throttled shriek you drop through the transparent air into the summer sea, no more to rise forever. Herman Melville

• sad
• world
• interestingly

But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one? L. M. Montgomery

• compassion
• manly
• experience

But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not. Milan Kundera

• heart
• soul
• tears

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof. Charles Dickens

• dating
• saying
• sayings

But it goes without saying that Michael Jordan could never date Pamela Anderson. That would cause the apocalypse. Chuck Klosterman

• love
• surely
• lovely

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price. Agatha Christie

• science
• soul
• love

But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of the age of science , instantly fades away. Milan Kundera

• evening
• fire
• winter

But I have always thought that these tulips must have had names. They were red, and orange and red, and red and orange and yellow, like the ember in a nursery fire of a winter's evening. I remember them. Neil Gaiman

• strength
• devil
• angel

But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest. George MacDonald

• past
• sailing
• our lives

But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past. Michael Ondaatje