Top 100 But You Quotes
#1. But you can't live your life worried about dying all the time. If you do, you're dead already.
Jennifer Echols
#2. But you're not as stupid as they say!... Or are you?
Anna Gavalda
#3. Muhammad Ali was the kind of guy you either loved or hated, but you wanted to see him. I happen to really love him. He brought boxing to another level and always made you laugh.
Gerry Cooney
#4. Just remember
if you are really and truly determined to work with animals, somehow, either now or later, you will find a way to do it. But you have to want it desperately, work hard, take advantage of an opportunity
and never give up.
Jane Goodall
#5. But you know," he continued, "in all the regrets I have, the one thing that never bothered me were the decisions I made with my heart. The rational ones, the ones I made while I was scared or desperate, those hammer at me constantly." - Nero
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#6. You must be careful, Harper. You're stubborn, hardheaded, scientific practicalist, and all of this seems like a nightmare to you that you hope will simply evaporate when you wake up. But you don't wake up from this.
Kat Richardson
#7. You think whatever is wrong with you is contagious, then?'
She laughed again. 'Yes, but you have it already. You caught it from your mother. Death.
Gene Wolfe
#8. You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Mahatma Gandhi
#9. I can win but you cant lose, this makes us all even in our ways.
Suzanne Collins
#10. You do not marry a woman, but you marry your imagination of her.
Debasish Mridha
#11. Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes.
David Mitchell
#12. That's really what it comes down to, in the end. Making choices. You can't predict life, but you can do your darndest to make it the best it can be.
Kaira Rouda
#13. Didn't know you could measure distance so well with nothing but you bloody eyeballs
James Dashner
#14. They sought out rap music to attack, but you don't hear that anymore because it made too much money. They use Che Guevara to sell soft drinks. If something comes out that is radical and it's successful, then it's no longer radical. It's co-opted.
John Landis
#15. You can't be a model at age 60, but you certainly can be an actress.
Eva Herzigova
#16. You are like fire; you will burn wherever you go. If contained, channeled, you can bring light, but you will also always cast a shadow.
Michelle Hodkin
#17. First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.
James McBride
#18. What do you have in mind?
It was too dark for her to see his smile, but she could hear it in his voice. Probably too many things for the amount of time that we've got, but you never know. I'm an ambitious man.
Thea Harrison
#19. In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
Ang Lee
#20. You cannot do anything for your salvation, but you must do something to manifest it, you must work out what God has worked in.
Oswald Chambers
#21. Dreaming isn't wasted time. The waste comes when you have these wonderful dreams, but you don't do anything to make them real.
Michelle Jellen
#22. I joined Twitter and you read a lot of the comments. You're biting your lip and you want to reply but you know a headline will be made from it and you don't want to give people the satisfaction.
Michael Owen
#23. Sure can. But you know a white man got to go through sumpin' 'fore he could call a black man friend. White man got to see the shit an' smell it too before he could really know a black friend." Jean-Paul
Walter Mosley
#24. You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
Bonnie Prudden
#25. You can lie at a banquet but you have to be honest in the kitchen.
William Stafford
#26. When you take the sires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but you help it. You let it out of its prison. How do you you know that death does not help me when it takes the wires of my cage down?-that it does not release me, and put me into some better place and better condition of life?
Randolph Sinks Foster
#27. 8 v The wind [5] blows w where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.
Anonymous
#28. Who else but you shelters guys like me and Adam from the storms of our lives? Angels are warriors, you know.
Lauren Dane
#29. It might seem that being a genius is a golden ticket to a life of glamorous soirees with the intellectual elite, champagne flute in hand, arm candy at your side, surrounded by a throng of smiling sycophants. But you might be confusing this scene with the lifestyle of a diplomat
Andre De Guillaume
#30. It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it.
Boris Johnson
#31. So God, how come it is that you love us all so much but you'd send us to the eternal fires if we don't act right? If I had children, I don't think I could ever watch them burn no matter how bad they were and I'm not even God.
Mary E. Kingsley
#32. You can kill my body, and you can take my life but you can never kill my soul. My soul will live forever!
Huey Newton
#33. I look at autism like a bus accident, and you don't become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover.
Jenny McCarthy
#34. You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them.
Bill Bryson
#35. No, but you're the most beautiful thing I've seen in the morning sun.
Jamie McGuire
#36. But you know the minute I graduated high school I never looked at a single math problem again, right? I send everything with numbers on it to my accountant, or I make Michael deal with it." "Great. Spoken like a true feminist,
Meg Cabot
#37. Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#38. I'm serious! You have to promise me right now, this instant, that you won't leave me once you meet him.Most people would run."
"I'm not most people."
I smile."I know. But you still have to promise."
His eyes lock on mine."Anna, I promise that I will never leave you.
Stephanie Perkins
#39. The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can't. But you can choose for yourself ...
Harry Browne
#40. I thought Trent should get over his pixy paranoia and admit he had an eerie attraction to them, like every other pure-blood elf I'd met. So he liked pixies. I liked double-crunch ice cream, but you didn't see me avoiding it in the grocery store.
Kim Harrison
#41. Your destination and destiny are uncertain, but you can create the illusion of certainty if you know the direction you are going.
Ben Tolosa
#42. People are always expecting to get peace in heaven: but you know whatever peace they get there will be ready-made. Whatever making of peace they can be blest for, must be on the earth here.
John Ruskin
#43. Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.
Charlie Hunnam
#44. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope ... I have loved none but you.
Jane Austen
#45. I do not think you can get rid of the fear ... but you can dance with it.
Seth Godin
#46. You might get one job for having a famous parent, but you won't get your second unless you're good.
Linus Roache
#47. Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.
Dan Harmon
#48. But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#49. Could've come like a mighty storm. With all the strength of a hurricane. You could've come like a forest fire with the power of Heaven in Your flame. But You came like a winter snow, quiet and soft and slow. Falling from the sky in the night to the earth below.
Chris Tomlin
#50. You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself
Terry Goodkind
#51. When your day has been teeming with different sensations, when you have things on your mind, you can get to sleep to start with but you can't get back to sleep. Sleep comes a lot more easily than it comes back.
Victor Hugo
#52. You can stop splitting the atom; you can stop visiting the moon; you can stop using aerosols; you may even decide not to kill entire populations by the use of a few bombs. But you cannot recall a new form of life.
Erwin Chargaff
#53. Think before you speak but you must READ before you think
Fl
#54. There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find
A woman's at the bottom.
[Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.]
Juvenal
#55. My goal is to be the most magical person you know. I say that all the time, because it's an idea that really does shape my daily life. But you might not have met me, or maybe you aren't familiar with me at all. Still, I know that you have a person who has given you that feeling.
Stephen Lovegrove
#56. You can train and train until you are blue in the face, but you've got to diet, you've got to have that leanness because if you are not lean, your abs won't show. Of course, the training has to be put in, but then you've to shed all the fat and keep the fat off. And that's how you get an eight pack.
Henry Cavill
#58. You could teach an animal to learn your language, but you'd be missing the point. The point was to learn its language. Only then would you understand.
Ilie Ruby
#59. You can live as a particle crashing about and colliding in a welter of materials with god, or you can live as a particle crashing about and colliding in a welter of materials without god. But you cannot live outside the welter of colliding materials.
Annie Dillard
#60. If you attach your mind to any ideology, you're going to be on a road, and that road may or may not lead you in a good direction. But you're gonna stay on that road because you are attached to an ideology. It could be a terrible road, but you stick with it regardless of rational thinking.
Joe Rogan
#61. Your path will diverge for a while, but do not let that worry you. You have known difficulty before, but you will survive and thrive.
Joanne Guidoccio
#62. Psa 73:25 Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
Jeff Swanson
#63. I've had so many critics over the past couple of months. I've had so many people who said I'm too old for this, I am burnt out. But, you know what, I am so hungry to make a career for myself. I was able to turn all this negativity into something positive.
Ashley Wagner
#64. I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his hand and squeezed it, then reluctantly let it go. She could feel the tears again, and she fought them back. 'But you don't want to keep me, either, do you?' To that, he had no response.
Nicholas Sparks
#65. You can sometimes close your eyes to, that of what you do not want to see,
You can even sometimes cover your ears to, that of what you do not want to hear,
But, you can never close your heart to, that of what you feel.
Michael Linen
#66. You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.
Frederick Buechner
#67. Obstacles will always be there, but you can be triumphant over the shackles of the past and break through all obstacles.
Shane DeCreshio
#68. Your relationship may be "Breaking Up," but you won't be "Breaking Down." If anything your correcting a mistake that was hurting four people, you and the person your with, not to mention the two people who you were destined to meet.
D. Ivan Young
#69. As an actor, your text is your bible, so you're not making a documentary, but you still have to follow the choices made by your writer.
Natalie Dormer
#70. You can dream the American Dream
But you sleep with the lights on
And wake up with a scream
Warren Zevon
#71. You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.
Carlos Slim
#72. There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you're still not going to change memories and experiences in a human being.
Helen Fisher
#73. You can go to heaven with money, education and wealth but you CANT GET THERE WITHOUT CHRIST
Myself
#74. Lord, No one but you and I understands what faithfulness is. Do not let me die until, for them, all danger is driven away.
Carmen Bernos De Gasztold
#75. Could it be that the great Bonaparte is incapable of fathering a child? that it is not I who am at fault but you?
Carolly Erickson
#76. That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person.
Morrissey
#77. I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.
Terry Pratchett
#78. You stupid chick ... nun ... whatever. I'm a tenth-degree black belt in Korean Karate!" "But you don't have the power of God, you uncircumcised philistine!
James Scott Bell
#79. Dare the difference. That we like. "You have to be savvy about it," Lagarde allows, "but you also, in a sense, have to be confident about the difference.
Katty Kay
#80. It takes courage and intelligence, you know, to do the stages of Yoga right, and to start with this Hatha Yoga ... It's just you and nothing but you, standing in one spot frozen like a statue with no place to go for help or excuse or scapegoat except inward.
Bikram Choudhury
#81. It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.
John Green
#82. In America, they say, you can take a horse to the pond, but you can't make him drink. My way is different. I only take the horse to the pond to make him drink. If he doesn't, I'll cut his head off.
Bikram Choudhury
#83. My friends call me a 'pace-setter.' Sometimes I am impatient, I think, but you must be fast and flexible in business because uncertainty is the only certainty in life.
Guler Sabanci
#84. All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a better place. Like shooting someone.
Terry Pratchett
#85. See, they say it's 'survival of the fittest', but you and I really know that it's 'survival of the most heavily armed
Lia Habel
#86. time itself cannot be managed, but you can save hours every single day by simply managing yourself.
Vincent Santiago
#87. You have to be cautious of eating continuously the same thing. Beef comes to mind right away, and there's nothing wrong with beef, but you've got to do whatever you're doing in moderation. So try to break it up a little bit. Eat some fish or some shellfish at least a couple of times a week.
Emeril Lagasse
#88. I'm Razo, a member of Bayern's Own," he said, stopping himself from adding "Loafing is just a hobby of mine."
"Bayern's Own? But you're a child."
Razo looked up to the sky. "I'm not a child, I'm just short.
Shannon Hale
#89. The Tories always hold the view that the state is an apparatus for the protection of the swag of the property owners ... Christ drove the money changers out of the temple, but you inscribe their title deed on the altar cloth.
Aneurin Bevan
#90. And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.
Angelina Jolie
#91. Raised in a brothel, I'd think such a sight common for you." He approached her slowly, his gaze caressing her as he drew close. "True." He drew a delicate pattern over her bare breasts and midriff. "But you aren't common, even if you do only have two breasts.
Grace Draven
#92. The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.
Eckhart Tolle
#93. Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.
Mike Ditka
#94. If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich.
Tony Robbins
#95. There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad.
John Hickenlooper
#96. After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
Iman
#97. It's about moments in life that are great but don't last. They don't go on, but you always have the memory and they have an effect on you. That's what I was thinking about.
Sofia Coppola
#98. Some comedians you work with, they only turn on when the camera turn on, and they're like sad-faced clowns when the camera's off. And then, they come alive when the camera come on. And you be like, "Oh, damn. You're not a depressed ball of depression, but you are actually funny."
Ice Cube
#99. An affair should be like a password. You should have one, but you shouldn't let the world know about it!
Toffee
#100. Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true - you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both! The America I know doesn't make excuses.
Mia Love
