Top 100 But It Quotes
#1. Because science shows us how to better understand the world, but it also reveals to us just how vast is the extent of what is still not known. The
Carlo Rovelli
#2. The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region.
C.S. Lewis
#3. Justice may be blind but it loves the sound of money.
Lisa Kleypas
#4. Rorschach did not seek death; he didn't commit suicide by Manhattan. But he understood what the others did not. "It is better to sacrifice life than to forfeit morality. It is not necessary to live, but it is necessary that, so long as we live, we do so honourably."18
William Irwin
#5. Leaving the space station was bittersweet - I had been there for a long time and looked forward to leaving, but it is a remarkable place.
Scott Kelly
#6. The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in the foot, but it is an industry built on a foundation of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights.
Don Rose
#7. It is Method on 'This is England;' it is. But it can't be Method on every job because it just doesn't work for everything.
Vicky McClure
#8. My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things.
Steve Case
#9. All that a pacifist can undertake
but it is a very great deal
is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.
Vera Brittain
#10. You know, I'll tell you, nothing changed after 'No Strings' for me. A lot of people said, like, 'Your game will be different,' but it wasn't. It really wasn't.
Jake Johnson
#11. There was nothing the matter with them except they were dead tired. It was not the dead-tiredness that comes through brief and excessive effort, from which recovery is a matter of hours; but it was the dead-tiredness that comes through the slow and prolonged strength drainage of months of toil.
Jack London
#12. But it was only hot outside, and generally I only walked outside between one air-conditioned place to another.
John Green
#13. Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.
Edward Abbey
#14. but it seems like part of your heart can never work if you don't have kids. Like it will always be shut off.
Gillian Flynn
#15. God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond control. Even if our core impulses can;t be banished, they can be tempered and redirected.
Robert Wright
#16. So you think you've found the solution but it's just another illusion.
Bob Marley
#17. Hard work and results should be recognized by others, but when they aren't, advocating for oneself becomes necessary. As discussed earlier, this must be done with great care. But it must be done.
Sheryl Sandberg
#18. My sound has changed. It's still hiphop, but it's more of like a rock/hip-hop show. It's high energy, stage diving, pyrotechnics, girls showing their breasts. It's crazy party atmosphere.
Vanilla Ice
#19. I decided I would go with them, but it would be at my father's house that I would eat. I would share his food, and his poverty.
Phoolan Devi
#20. Once food gets into our fridges, larders and kitchens, ensuring that it gets used up before going off seems like an obvious thing to do - but it's alarming how many millions of tonnes are simply chucked because we don't keep track of the food we've spent our money on.
Tristram Stuart
#21. I am a philosopher in the natural sciences. Matters of the heart I leave to the poets, but it has occurred to me, as a failed poet myself, that the cruelest aspect of love is its inviolable integrity. We do not choose to love - or I should say, we cannot choose not to love. Do you understand?
Rick Yancey
#22. ...and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live. We are wrong, of course, but it doesn't matter. It's too late.
Toni Morrison
#23. It's quite nice to have a place to leave things. You can be a permanent gypsy, but it's nice to go home.
Daphne Guinness
#24. To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#25. This isn't a strength, Aunt True," I said, "but it's dark in here."
"That's because it's nighttime, you moron!" scoffed Danny.
Heather Vogel Frederick
#26. Love? Love is like holding water in your hands. You might have it for a time, but it escapes, leaving you with nothing.
Laura Lam
#27. She had a heart the size of France and the lucky few whom she loved, she loved with every square inch of it. But it's size made it dangerous.
Ransom Riggs
#28. "The dream is real but it does not last" - This is an illusion.
Frederick Lenz
#29. Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come.
Kevin Kelly
#30. America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing.
Malcolm X
#31. Of course, the discounting of future earnings should hurt all stocks. But it should hurt technology stocks more than others, because so many of them are valued at extremely high levels relative to their current earnings.
Alex Berenson
#33. Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn't feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the 80s. A lot of people died.
Madonna Ciccone
#34. There's an unseen river of communication that forever flows - dark and powerful. Tonight was about food and laughter, yes. But it was also about navigatin' that river." A
Sharon M. Draper
#35. Okay, I like him," I admitted.
"But it takes more than a nice body, Jenks. Jeez, I do have a little depth. You've got a great body, and you don't see me trying to get into your Fruit of the Looms.
Kim Harrison
#36. It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well, we live in a similar time, when we're losing the vast majority of what we do and see and learn. But it doesn't have to be that way.
Dave Eggers
#37. To me, a person's identity is composed of both an 'I' and a 'we.' The 'I' finds itself in love, work, and pleasure, but it also locates itself within some meaningful group identity - a tribe, a community, a 'we.' America is too big and bland a tribe for most of us.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
#38. You can't believe everything you hear, but it's fun to repeat it anyway.
Milton Berle
#39. The best treasure of life is not wealth, but it is simplicity with confidence.
Debasish Mridha
#40. I'm glad I took the leap away from acting into going behind the camera because it's much more satisfying - I love acting and I still do, but it's much more satisfying to be able to make the stuff.
Paul Feig
#41. I think every actor wants a certain amount of control. Maybe not control, as such, but just to be part of the process. But it's not necessary, I guess.
Aidan Turner
#43. He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared to overcome his character to achieve it.
Iain Pears
#44. Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have. In this respect, as in many others, it's like democracy. Science by itself cannot advocate courses of human action, but it can certainly illuminate the possible consequences of alternative courses of action.
Carl Sagan
#45. You may think pain is a barricade to success, but it's usually a bridge.
Randy Gage
#46. Improving intelligence is possible, but it is more likely to occur if children are given the right experiences at the right ages.
Dennis Garlick
#47. The whole point is that writing has a pattern and life hasn't. Life is so untidy. Art is so short and life so long. It is not possible to have perfection in life but it is possible to have perfection in a novel.
Elizabeth Taylor
#48. You'll say things all wrong but they'll at once become American ways of saying things. You won't know shit but it'll right away become an American type of ignorance. Not belonging, that's an old American tradition, see?, that's the American way.
Salman Rushdie
#49. Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.
Phyllis Schlafly
#50. A happy marriage isn't the easiest thing in the world to achieve, but it's much easier to come by than a happy but illicit affair.
Shirley Boone
#51. For example, people often say "Be quiet," but they don't tell you how long to be quiet for. Or you see a sign which says KEEP OFF THE GRASS but it should say KEEP OFF THE GRASS AROUND THIS SIGN or KEEP OFF ALL THE GRASS IN THIS PARK because there is lots of grass you are allowed to walk on.
Mark Haddon
#52. What's the best part of being a mathematician? I'm not a religious man, but it's almost like being in touch with God when you're thinking about mathematics. God is keeping secrets from us, and it's fun to try to learn some of the secrets.
Paul Halmos
#53. I'm only the instrument through which one particular art is expressed. Poetry flows through me but it originates in the wellspring of creation that is the source of us all. When you strike out at someone else's achievement you are attacking your own share of a great gift.
Morgan Llywelyn
#54. There are very few ethnic LGBT characters on television, so I am honored to represent them. I love supporting this cause, but it's a big responsibility, and sometimes it's a lot of pressure on me.
Naya Rivera
#55. That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable ... but it is not necessary to abandon Spoken Soul to master Standard English, any more than it is necessary to abandon English to learn French or to deprecate jazz to appreciate classical music.
John R. Rickford
#56. It isn't the happy ending that Ingrid and I have dreamed up, but it's all a part of what I'm working through. The way life changes. The way people and things disappear. Then appear, unexpectedly, and had you close
Nina LaCour
#57. Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it's the biggest career decision you can make.
Sheryl Sandberg
#58. I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.
Joyce Brothers
#59. Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus.
John Piper
#60. All Pieces of puzzle set on right place, but it'll take time & dedication !!
Akash Patel
#61. The hands can build a structure, but it is the heart that brings forth the meaning to fill it.
L.M. Browning
#62. And worse, there was the music. He didn't know what it was, but it seemed to come from far, far off. It called to him, but not in a pleasant way - it had an urgency that sped his heart and made his blood burn.
David Gaider
#63. We try to say it's creative and in a manner it is creative, but it is a business, because today, with the cost factor in crossing the boundaries that you do.
Skitch Henderson
#64. No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#65. The world is so caught up in the 'American Idol' idealistic sort of tendency in regards to just thinking that this whole thing is what everybody wants, but it doesn't help you make a better record.
Maxwell
#66. I'm a Christian. Years ago, I went broke, so I decided to run every part of my life according to the Bible. It sounds hokey, but it works. You run your marriage that way, and it works. It will work with business, too, and finances. Treat people like you want to be treated.
Dave Ramsey
#67. I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still.
Jami Attenberg
#68. We all have faced fearful times. But it is better to live with faith than fear.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#69. At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying.
Norman Lamm
#70. Granted, a man may smile and smile and be a villain, but it takes nerve.
Jill Paton Walsh
#71. Not only has my latest book, The Wandering Who?, rocked the boat, but it also has managed to unite Alan Dershowitz and Abe Foxman with Ali Abunimah and Max Blumenthal. That is pretty encouraging: it means that peace may prevail after all.
Gilad Atzmon
#72. I did theater for a few years while I was in New York, but it was tough having to perform scripts worse than what I knew I could write.
Zach Braff
#73. It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.
Isaac Asimov
#74. People want to classify and say, 'OK, this is a gangster film.' 'This is a Western.' 'This is a ... ' You know? It's easy to classify and it makes people feel comfortable, but it doesn't matter, it doesn't really matter.
Martin Scorsese
#75. Your grief will fade ... It's hard to believe this now, my friend ... but it will wither and, like a flower, leave behind always a seed of possibility.
Vaddey Ratner
#76. Light came out of this river since - you say Knights? Yes, but it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
Joseph Conrad
#77. But it's my reading of human nature that a man will cheat in his trade, but not in his hobby.
G.K. Chesterton
#78. I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here ... but it sure came up great.
Ike Turner
#79. But it isn't enough to be all right in this world; you've got to look all right as well, because two-thirds of success is making people think you are all right.
George Horace Lorimer
#80. You think you deserve to be sad," he says. There is a moment of silence as we look at each other. "You think it is okay for you to be sad every day. But it's not okay. And you do not deserve it.
Laura Nowlin
#81. Her voice is still pitched high, thanks to her youth, but it has a certain incipient darkness to it, a low richness that will mature in the coming years to the smoky tones of a priestess or a queen -- a woman of great natural power.
Libbie Hawker
#82. Destiny doesn't control your life, but it does place you on a path. It's how you walk down that path that determines stories I tell.
Pamela Yates
#83. As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
V.E Schwab
#84. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
#86. I thought sooner or later someone would start saying it had gone too far, but it just kept on, and no one said anything. I
Kazuo Ishiguro
#87. We see new male artists have their first single reach No. 1 on the charts, but it generally takes a female a lot longer to build momentum.
Carrie Underwood
#88. Inside my house, nobody was home, except everybody, but it was easy to feel like those were one and the same.
Alison Espach
#89. Evil can be undone, but it cannot "develop" into good.
C.S. Lewis
#90. Fear is not always a sin but it always is an opportunity.
Mark Driscoll
#91. And I've got a lot of weight behind me."
Shadow grinned, a charming boyishness shining through. "Yes, but it's like ninety percent baby and water. You'll lose it all once she's born."
"Really?"
"I have no idea, but it sounds good, doesn't it?
Ellis Leigh
#92. Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of the stars to cross ...
John Green
#93. Sometimes you want to change the past by going from the future in the past. But sometimes you find that everything which you have done, it's not better but it becomes worst but why?
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Deyth Banger
#94. Admittedly, it's a little crazy. Grand, infinite God taking on the squalling form of a human baby boy. It's what some of the old-timers call a scandal, the scandal of the Gospel. But it is also the whole point.
Lauren F. Winner
#95. It is beautiful to acquire knowledge, but it is misleading to expect it to bring us peace, love and happiness.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#96. My name is very often associated with parties and entertaining, but it's not true. I am not such a party person.
Roberto Cavalli
#97. But it seemed like the more we advanced, the more the future looked impossible, making us return to the more radical times in the past.
Christian Lacroix
#98. 'Precious' is strangely uplifting. It goes down into the valley but it also goes to the mountain tops. A lot of difficult realities are explored in 'Precious,' but the peaks make the valleys and the valleys make the peaks.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
#99. It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.
Tim Berners-Lee
#100. I think that people don't necessary fight with or aren't necessarily beaten by weapons, but it' through their minds and what they think they can do.
Abderrahmane Sissako
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