Top 100 But We Quotes
#1. None of us has control over the economy, the job market, or anything else in the global sense. But we are 100% in charge of how we respond to challenges that come our way, be it the loss of a job, a career derailment, or some other disappointment.
Edward Whitacre Jr.
#2. We can speak of the triumph of capitalism in the world, but we cannot yet speak about the triumph of democracy. There is a serious mismatch between the political and the economic conditions that prevail in the world today.
George Soros
#3. I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.
Linda Ronstadt
#4. Because what God wants, that, and only that, is also what we want - but we don't know it. God comes and awakens our souls, revealing to them their real, though unknown, desire. This is the secret, Brother Leo. To do the will of God means to do my own most deeply hidden will.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#5. None of us is all that certain. But we have to pretend to be.
Kate Alcott
#6. Maybe we can't change the world, but we can do our part to make the world a better place for everyone.
Boss Amanishakhete
#7. Donald Trump foreign policy speech got good reviews, and it says we're going to defeat the people who are direct threats to us, but we're going to be a lot more cautious about getting involved in long-term, Wilsonian adventures.
Jeff Sessions
#8. This is one of the most important moments in your life. Nothing will ever be the same. We might get rich. We might get killed. We might just have an adventure or lean something. But we have been changed. We are standing close the Heraclitean fire, feeling its heat on our faces.
Neal Stephenson
#9. I want to know what you're thinking, you want to know what I'm thinking. But we're alone. In our own minds. We're trapped in this sort of isolation.
Wayne Coyne
#10. I trust you, Collin, with my life and my heart. If I didn't, I wouldn't be here right now. We may not be joined together, by law, by God, but we are, in my heart.
Nicole Gulla
#11. My resistance to communication work is because of 15 years with my former wife where we did all this work, but we never got to the core of anything.
Kenny Loggins
#12. Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it.
Gilbert Highet
#13. The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.
Dan Hawkins
#14. Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx -the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?
Bob Dylan
#15. If only we would wake from (these) states of oblivion with some certain sense that there was no mystery to life at all, that cruelty was purely impersonal, but we don't.
Anne Rice
#16. I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.
Sinead O'Connor
#17. I kill the living to make way for the dead.
But we had hot chocolate, she and I. We tried to make our friendship last as long as we could.
Then I was forced to let her go. I held her when she returned to the earth.
R.A. Parry
#18. The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them ... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
Charles Kettering
#19. We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.
Gerry Adams
#20. Unfortunately, I have realized that we cannot completely erase all the evil from the world, but we can change the way we deal with it, we can rise above it and stay strong and true to ourselves.
Zlata Filipovic
#21. We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#22. all of us were here for a little while, and then we were somewhere else; we were not alive at all; we approached living, but we never achieved it. We are going to die. Everybody was going to die.
John Fante
#23. All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates of the yesterdays and the list of the fools.
Stephen Leacock
#24. I believe that you've created a metaphorical universe in which you can express your darkest fears. In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves, and sometimes we do such a good job, we lose track of reality.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#25. I remember thinking, 'Sometimes you're riding high in April and shot down in June, but at least we have each other.' We were full of enthusiasm and color, and you could sense that something was brewing that could be amazing, but we weren't quite there yet.
Anthony Kiedis
#26. We use digitisation and 3D-render programs such as Optitex and ClO3D to create the silhouettes, but we invented our system to let users mix and match components in real time.
Aslaug Magnusdottir
#27. We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue
and there are many pleasures in life, long conversations and indolence-that pleasing vice..
Euripides
#28. When we become leaders, we sometimes think we are now supposed to have the answers. Yes, we may have some answers, but we will be more effective when we engage others and get their opinions.
Kevin Eikenberry
#29. Readers love fantasy, but we need horror. Smart horror. Truthful horror. Horror that helps us make sense of a cruelly senseless world.
Brian K. Vaughan
#30. Who has known the Lord's mind, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 2:16
Beth Moore
#31. His eyebrows raised. "And you said demons didn't know love."
Guido's laugh was harsh. "Ahh, but haven't you learned by now, bestia? Demons may not be able to lie, but we never tell the truth.
Heather R. Blair
#32. I heard your whispered fantasies so clear Softly told in my ear
I opened my eyes you weren't there
So real my dream, I was so aware
But we'll meet again so certainly
In our whispered fantasy
Astrid Brown
#33. Pity us, yes, but we are brave, she thought, and wild, more life in us than we can bear, the fire infolding itself within us.
Marilynne Robinson
#34. As a former veteran, I understand the needs of veterans, and have been clear - we will work together, stand together with the Administration, but we will also question their policies when they shortchange veterans and military retirees.
Solomon Ortiz
#35. People in Iceland are complete chickens in the cold. You think, "Oh, you must not be cold because you're from Iceland," but we're never in the cold.
Tomas Lemarquis
#36. Forgetting and remembering are governed by laws, but we cannot find out what they are.
Mason Cooley
#37. There are tons of people I'd like to freeze for all of eternity, but we won't go into that!
Holly Marie Combs
#38. We cannot control all the circumstances of our lives, but we can control our attitudes and our actions. If we don't, someone else will.
Toni Sorenson
#39. I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources.
Barbara Mikulski
#40. An allusion is something we refuse to see, but we see what we want to see ...
Edna Stewart
#41. The Ukrainians don't have the military means to stand up to Russia, but we haven't helped them militarily, either.
Wesley Clark
#42. My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at.
Dan Fogler
#43. When we human beings hypothesize that a law of nature holds - even temporarily or situationally - we are creating an idea, but we are also making a hypothesis about how nature behaves, whose truth or usefulness has nothing to do with what we know or believe.
Lee Smolin
#44. One interview would lead us to another interview, which led us to another interview. We had the questions and the idea of chonicling this moment in time. But we didn't have a movie, per se. As we started interviewing people, it started to kind of define itself.
Keanu Reeves
#45. Now that you've grown up You can finally learn to be a child We made it to the end of the world But we'll never make it out alive.
Ben Harper
#46. Aging is not our fault, but we certainly are guilty of feeling it.
Munia Khan
#47. We're lost, but we're making good time.
Yogi Berra
#48. Health coverage for regular citizens isn't mandated by the Constitution, but we're obligated to provide adequate medical care for prisoners, whatever the cost.
Jim Riley
#49. We are each a river with a particular abiding character, but we show radically different aspects of our self according to the territory through which we travel.
David Whyte
#50. When the men in Russia foul up, they are dismisses, sometimes losing their necks. But we protect those who fail and press them to the government bosom.
Hyman Rickover
#51. We thought we'd name the magazine for the number of bridges within Edmonton's city limits. We thought this number was 18. Much later, we learned that the number is actually 21. But we didn't like the sound of that so much.
Lynn Coady
#52. At the end of the day, though, the entire basis for consent laws doesn't make sense. We're not old enough to decide if we don't want a baby, but we are old enough to have one?
Jessica Valenti
#53. I don't know. But we may not have any other option.
Veronica Roth
#55. For, in truth, an image is only dead matter shaped by the craftsman's hand. But we have no sensible image of sensible matter, but an image that is perceived by the mind alone: God, who alone is truly God.
Clement Of Alexandria
#56. But we Americans scrap relationships that are not working as we would like -- whether they be with relatives, with spouses, or with friends. We dispose of them like Kleenex. When it is inconvenient, painful, difficult, I get rid of you. I hit the road.
Stuart Miller
#57. I try to eat vegetarian, though I'm not very good at it, and it's a work in progress. But we basically are what we eat. Eat fat, and there's fat in your body. Eat protein, and there's protein in your body. Eat magic, and there's magic in your body.
Greg Van Eekhout
#58. It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.
George Harrison
#59. But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#60. We makeup artists are a unique bunch of people; we don't have the classic brain, the classic training, but we're creative, so we figure it out.
Bobbi Brown
#61. Well, we are not doing that film actually. At least I am not at the moment, but we are making an effort to get it done; I don't know whether we'll get the financing for it. The old story we had it, it fell out of place and this and that.
Harvey Keitel
#62. Every race will have disagreements amongst themselves, but we must put aside our differences, and work together for the advancement of that race Sandra Forsythe
Frantz Fanon
#63. The State should have made sure the money given to the NGOs was used according to a global plan for Haiti; not doing whatever they want. They should be supervised and have to report and make sure the money is being used properly. They are here, but we are seeing no results.
Michel Martelly
#64. I'm glad to have grown up in the countryside and played, and had to use my imagination rather than a TV and had to learn to act the hard way, to have dealt with the rejection. It's a life as well as a job, at the end the day, we all have to work for a living, but we have to have a life as well.
Jason Clarke
#65. We're all going through our problems, but we all have the same insecurities and we all have the same abilities and we all need each other.
Beyonce Knowles
#66. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less than divine self-portraits,
N.D. Wilson
#67. Now, no one expects us to agree on everything, whether in Juneau or in Washington. But we are expected to govern with integrity and goodwill and clear convictions and a servant's heart.
Sarah
#68. My hair covers my scarring.'
'But we've agreed that no one notices your scarring once they're around you. You woo them like a big, fat hairy black spider, and no matter how much they struggle they're helpless.
Anne Stuart
#69. I think I've got a responsibility to be home a little bit more, be available to my family a little bit more and do some things to help make our country better. I don't know what that is right now, but we'll see.
Tony Dungy
#70. I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.
John Webster
#71. Equality, therefore, becomes the criterion because we can handle all that in process, but we can't handle that as principle without infringing on freedom.
Francis George
#72. We can't chose family," Cain agreed. "But we can chose our friends.
Tina Folsom
#73. We see the judges look like lions, but we do not see who moves them.
John Selden
#74. We are not good because of the good we do but we are good and so we do good.
Newton Gatambia
#75. Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need.
Michael Bloomberg
#76. I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Hilaire Belloc
#77. We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards.
Wilford Woodruff
#78. The neighborhood is pretty rough." I rubbed the hair on the back of my neck feeling a little ashamed about that. We tried to keep it as clean as we could but we weren't saints.
"I'm starting to gather that. Thanks, Clay. Night."
"Night."
"You got it bad man.
Shandy L. Kurth
#79. Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.
Andrew Jackson
#80. We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.
Samuel Johnson
#81. Maybe we can't predict everything, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It's almost certainly going to be a disaster
Nicola Yoon
#82. The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
Arthur Erickson
#83. I want every health care professional, every first-responder, every citizen, every visitor to know that in Florida we continue to prepare for the worst. But we pray for the best.
Rick Scott
#84. Too often we pray to have patience, but we want it right now!
Robert D. Hales
#85. Writing again, he stressed that the events of war are always uncertain. Then, paraphrasing a favorite line from the popular play Cato by Joseph Addison - a line that General Washington, too, would often call upon - Adams told her, We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.
David McCullough
#86. We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.
Lillian Gordy Carter
#87. Everyone has a messed-up family to one extent or another but we all have an obligation to rise above it. Live in the present and stop sniveling about the past.
Emily Giffin
#88. The Tribe of Endless Hunting has not shown that to me," Stoneteller replied. "I do not know when the silver cat will come, or from where, but we will know it when he arrives.
Erin Hunter
#89. What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity.
Siobhan Davies
#90. When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.
Erykah Badu
#91. All men are created to lead, but we need somebody to lead us.
LeCrae
#92. I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.
Catherine Opie
#93. We certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it.
Mary Parker Follett
#94. You brought the needle & I brought the thread. We meant to mend our two broken hearts, but we ended up stitching them together.
Amanda Lovelace
#95. Seeing is looking at something in saturation. But we tend to look at something for, say, 1/30 of a second.
Guido Molinari
#96. We want to conquer the world and have 1,000 likes, 1 million likes, but at the same time, we are depressed. We are lonely, but we have 10,000 followers. We are all bipolar.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#97. We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what the American people want us to do.
John McCain
#98. In this House, we may belong to different parties, but we serve one country.
Nancy Pelosi
#99. We spend billions on international aid annually, but we don't find ways to connect people to dignified work. I realized that if we don't think about ways to harness private capital to solve problems, we're leaving large amounts of money on the table and doing ourselves a disservice.
Leila Janah
#100. We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can't really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area.
Will Wright
