Buts Quotes (page 899)

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• time
• fitness
• thinking

Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on. Haruki Murakami

• wise
• greatness
• simple

The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly. Benjamin Hoff

• history
• old
• kiss

Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the long ago, coming to kiss the boots of young psychopaths. Kurt Vonnegut

• fear
• sometimes
• fearing

Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground. Terry Prachett

• running
• evening
• rightfully

Even if you are on the right track, but just sit there, you will still get run over. Will Rogers

• prayer
• consider
• words

As the outward man is not fit for work for any length of time unless he eats, so is with the inner man. What is the food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God-not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water runs through a pipe. No, we must consider what we read, ponder over it, and apply it to our hearts. George Muller

• change
• alone
• water

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. Mother Teresa

• mother
• imagination
• how

It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth? Arthur Conan Doyle

• soul
• may
• hours

The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour. L. M. Montgomery

• doubt
• text
• manly

Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many. Fernando Pessoa

• regret
• grief
• she

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets? neither of us have any. Vincent Van Gogh

• past
• respect
• worship

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness. Pierre Trudeau

• future
• futurism
• realizing

People don't realize that the future is just now, but later. Russell Brand

• relationship
• future
• past

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. Robert Penn Warren

• end
• remembered
• ending

This [...] isn`t something I actually saw, but what you end up remembering isn`t always the same as what you witnessed. Julian Barnes