Buts Quotes (page 715)

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• hard
• missing
• true

The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow'd wilds, It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk. I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags. I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles. You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to your nevertheless, And filter... Walt Whitman

• pride
• wellness
• sausages

Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage. Terry Prachett

• education
• training
• bitter

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. Mark Twain

• remembrance
• dream
• effort

In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again. Anais Nin

• different
• differences
• different languages

We all have different languages; but we all really mean the same thing. C. S. Lewis

• power
• change
• running

Each of us has interests which conflict the interests of everybody else... 'everybody else' we call 'society'. It's a powerful opponent and it always wins. Oh, here and there an individual prevails for a while and gets what he wants. Sometimes he storms the culture of a society and changes it to his own advantage. But society wins in the long run, for it has the advantage of numbers and of age. B. F. Skinner

• look
• view
• look at me

and there was a beautiful view but nobody could see cause everybody on the island was saying look at me Laurie Anderson

• writing
• boys
• writes

We teach our boys to firebomb villages, but we won't let them write fuck on the side of their planes because it's obscene. Francis Ford Coppola

• love
• women
• men

Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so. Naomi Wolf

• life
• determination
• small

You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it. Muhammad Ali Jinnah

• freedom
• end
• saying

In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• powerful
• humanity
• freedom

I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• kindness
• freedom
• evening

All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all. Thomas Pynchon

• appearance
• doubt
• mathematics

Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in mathematics than in music. Appearances suggest the contrary, but there are easy explanations. Music can be used to stimulate mass emotion, while mathematics cannot; and musical incapacity is recognized (no doubt rightly) as mildly discreditable, whereas most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite... G. H. Hardy

• eyes
• missing
• stupid

Stupid cupid keeps on calling me, but I see nothing in his eyes. I miss my babe George Michael