Top 100 For But Quotes
#1. Hovering above me, directly over the twirling Merkabah, was the cosmic phenomena I hoped for but had not truly expected.
L.Z.Marie
#2. Many Buddhist teachers have described compassion as the ability to react freely and accurately in any situation. Being nice or feeling sorry for someone may be called for, but so may being fierce and unyielding. When sweetness is applied indiscriminately, it is seen as 'idiot compassion.'
Issan Dorsey
#3. We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but what we settle for.
Alan Cohen
#4. What the fuck, Dexter," Deborah said accusingly, as if it were my fault the two blood types were different. "I'm sorry," I said, not at all sure what I was apologizing for, but quite certain from her tone of voice that I should.
Jeff Lindsay
#5. Blood pounded in Ruth's ears. She had never felt weaker or more confused. This was the moment she'd been living for, but the only thought she could muster was that her mother had not been Phyllis, as she'd been told, but Phoebe. The
Anita Diamant
#6. I've got friends in the different teams I've played for, but family is the most important thing to me. That will always be the case.
David Beckham
#7. In life you don't get everything you pay for, but you must pay for everything you get.
Frederick Douglass
#8. You can tell a person, not by what they say they are gratitude for, but how they respect what they claim to be grateful for.
Davina Veronica
#9. He is the enigmatic, mysterious artist, who is undeniably attractive, and he is the man who every woman wants to pose for, but he wants none of that. He only wants her. It all begins and consequently ends with Chantel Rosenberg.
Ella Frank
#10. Some would think the leader of a people should be a model of what to strive for. But maybe God knew trying to be perfect is just not healthy, or maybe God could not find any perfect human beings. Maybe it's just not possible to be perfect.
Seth Greenland
#11. "I want to stay alive in pretty much 90% of my movies. Slaughtering isn't exactly what I'm going for, but I will play edgy for sure."
Miley Cyrus
#12. A final stand, then. One last battle. At least he could say that he had fought. When he met his brothers and sisters on the far side of death, he would tell them that he had not yielded. He might have betrayed everything that they had been bred for, but he had never yielded.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#13. I want you to fight for my heart just like I'm going to fight for yours. I don't want a cheap thrill with you. I just want to show you what's real and I want it in return because that's what I've been looking for." "But
Sha Jones
#14. She did not know it, but she was actually in despair at the poverty of human emotions. Was it not irrational that there was nothing to do except weep when ten people died, just as one wept for but a single person?
Yukio Mishima
#15. I can't tell you exactly what I'm looking for, but I'll know it when it happens. I want to be breathless and weak, crumpled by the entrance of another person inside my soul. I want to be violated by insight.
Aimee Bender
#16. I am hyper vigilant and would be dangerous if threatened ... If someone broke into my house or attacked me in the street, it's THEM I would fear for ... But as Yo La Tengo recently put it so succinctly: I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass.
Haven Kimmel
#17. What are friends for, but to help each other get through bad times and have multiple orgasms?
Elizabeth Morgan
#18. And so people ask God for signs and wonders. Yet when signs are given and wonders are performed, most can't even see them! I therefore believe that it's not signs people should be asking God for; but you should be asking God for Sight!
C. JoyBell C.
#19. He's worth fighting for, but I won't change who I am for any man. No more than he should alter himself to suit me.
Ann Aguirre
#20. I wasn't really into school that much. I was in this building having to cram knowledge I didn't really care for. But on YouTube, I was able to create what I wanted and post it for people to watch.
KSI
#21. Perfection is something everyone strives for, but it's elusive and may be an illusion.
R.L. Griffin
#22. Upsetting the dope is a favorite pastime in baseball. Past performances count for but little in the national pastime. Reputations don't get you anywhere. A club is judged solely on results, and to get results, you must win ball games.
Billy Evans
#23. It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
W. Somerset Maugham
#24. God is good to all of us. He knows what we need better than we do. And just because he thinks it is better not to give you what you want right now doesn't mean he isn't answering you. You shall have what you ask for but not until the right time comes.
Johanna Spyri
#25. Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
William Glasser
#26. You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for ... unless it's contagious!
Beverly Sills
#28. And what more could a man hope for but to conquer death?
Brent Weeks
#29. Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching little people as they are!
Katharine Lee Bates
#30. It was not the caress of her lips the length of him was looking for, but the back of her throat.
Pauline Reage
#31. Disappointment was never a thing you looked for, but it had a wonderful way of clearing the mind.
Stephen King
#32. Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
Harlan Coben
#33. People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that.
Liz Phair
#34. those whom love has held, has held here in time
curious, in this labyrinth of roses - it
will go on holding, though in cruelty - of
stars we could not reach for, but still remembered.
John Daniel Thieme
#35. As the telescope is not a substitute for, but an aid to, our sight, so revelation is not designed to supersede the use of reason, but to supply its deficiencies.
Richard Whately
#36. We can never be sure just which other business cards are in the pocket of pundit, politician, or professor. We can't be sure, in short, just who our elites are working for. But we suspect it is not us.
Christopher L. Hayes
#37. Scott Fitzgerald said famously that 'he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for.' But he also forgot that without consciousness, he would have no access to true happiness or even the possibility of transcendence.
Antonio Damasio
#38. I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being ... me.
Ellen DeGeneres
#39. The mass migration of the poorest of the poor to America is bad for the whole country, but it's fantastic for Democrats. Ask yourself: Which party benefits from illiterate non-English speakers who have absolutely no idea what they're voting for, but can be instructed to learn certain symbols?
Ann Coulter
#40. You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train.
Philip Larkin
#41. There are three things that make people happy, the people they love, the things they do, and what they hope for, I think I know who you love and I know what you hope for but what do you do to make you happy
Dominique Thomas
#42. That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not despise!" I said, and felt that it was true.
Anne Bronte
#43. We have room in this country for but one flag, the Stars and Stripes!
Theodore Roosevelt
#44. Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#45. Told you, somethin's good, it's worth fightin' for but not if you're the only one fightin'.
Kristen Ashley
#46. I tried to think what I had loved knives for, but my mind slipped from the noose of the thought and swung, like a bird, in the centre of empty air.
Sylvia Plath
#47. Sometimes what matters in not what you go looking for, but rather what you find when you're not looking.
Beth Wiseman
#48. Life may not be the party we hoped for... but while we're here we may as well dance.
Jeanne C. Stein
#49. He kept fighting. If you didn't have something to live for, he reasoned, you'd die. Not just to live for, but to live toward. He thought for a little while he'd live for someone else - a
Leslie Parry
#50. We can quibble about what precise percentage of performance it accounts for, but no one can seriously question that smartness - the intellectual ability to do the job - is one of the primary determinants of whether someone succeeds or fails at managerial work.
Justin Menkes
#51. As I helped him up, I felt him shake all over, so I asked him to forgive me, without knowing what for, but that was my lot, asking forgiveness, I even asked forgiveness of myself for being what I was, what it was my nature to be.
Bohumil Hrabal
#52. There were two off-campus Negro fraternities, one of which Chester pledged for, but even these, he said later, admitted students on the basis of skin shadings, with men of lighter complexion being viewed as more desirable.2
Edward Margolies
#53. As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.
Paul Krugman
#54. I'm sorry you never got to live the life you wanted. Or see the world. Have an adventure." He chuckled low in his throat. "Oh, no? I'd say we were having quite the adventure, you and I. They always said to be careful what you wish for, but I wouldn't listen.
Julie Klassen
#55. I have so many single girlfriends who fit themselves into the mold of what they think a guy's looking for. But being comfortable around men is about being comfortable with yourself. They gravitate toward confidence. Really, that is what they want to be around.
Cobie Smulders
#56. My thoughts gravitate to whatever's missing, whatever's lost or broken or painful. My heart worries and fears. There is plenty to be thankful for but those are not the scenes I stay stuck in.
Jamie Tworkowski
#57. 67% of all shoppers intend to return home with the item they are shopping for, but that only 24% actually do so.
Roy H. Williams
#58. That is when you need faith the most. Not when everything is going your way, not when you have much to be thankful for, but when there is darkness all around.
Alexandra Adornetto
#59. But that's how the tree works, ain't it? It gives you what you wish for but not in a way that makes things better. I suppose that's the difference between what you want and what you need." Molly
Jonathan Auxier
#60. He brought them the gold they asked for, but they hung him anyway." "Hanged, Ami. Your father was not a tapestry.
George R R Martin
#61. There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.
Albert Dietrich
#62. I have to concede that I have often needed things that are not only bad for, but very, very dangerous.
J. Kenner
#63. When you least expect it, life may propose something to you. Something you might not necessarily be looking for, but without a doubt has the ability to offer your life some form of enrichment.
Scott Hildreth
#64. I only had one thought as the blackness closed in, drawing me back to my beloved earth. I was going back to the life I'd known before, the life I'd missed and longed for ... but there in Xavier's arms, I was already home.
Alexandra Adornetto
#65. Anomaly is when you don't fit the expected norm. Like "wait what is this?! It doesn't belong here." Its what the system never planned for but now has to adapt to. Its Neo in The Matrix.
LeCrae
#66. I'm not out here looking for no garbage cans to curl up in. I'm looking for the same good dreams everybody else is hoping for, but I don't see where they are. Or maybe I see where they are, but I don't see how to get there.
Walter Dean Myers
#67. I happen to take photographs, and they happen to be used for a lot of things, but they're not really made to order. They're paid for, but they're not made for order. I've never really done real commercial work.
Anton Corbijn
#68. What if I have nothing left to fight for? I say, my voice shaking.
"Then you fight until you find something to fight for. But the moment you stop fighting the current, the moment you surrender to it, that's when you are truly lost.
Sherry D. Ficklin
#69. Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.
Anne Sexton
#70. You never get the role you have worked so hard for, but the dream role, the one who gives you joy, money and maybe even honor, that one just falls into your lap.
Michael Wincott
#71. I watched the way our fingers intertwined, and I thought, What are hands made for but this? For holding. For holding on.
James Patterson
#72. Why is it when I pursue the praises of men I find myself with everything that I've looked for but nothing that I need? That's because I have an extraordinary habit of looking for the wrong thing in the wrong place.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#73. Some things exist in our lives for but a brief moment. And we must let them go on to light another sky.
Renee Ahdieh
#74. Contrary to your beliefs, I am stronger then what you give me credit for, but the real lesson here is the knowledge to know I don't owe you an explanation to anything.
Nikki Rowe
#75. for anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called a mathom.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#76. I distrust patriotism; the reasonable man can find little in these days that is worth dying for. But dying against - there's enough iniquity in Europe to carry the most urbane or decadent into battle.
Geoffrey Household
#77. Good pictures. Tragedy and violence certainly make powerful images. It is what we get paid for.But there is a price extracted with every such frame: some of the emotion, the vulnerability, the empathy that makes us human, is lost every time the shutter is released.
Greg Marinovich
#78. What you're willing to give tells you who you are. Not what you are willing to bargain for, or willing to be paid for - but what it is you are willing to give.
Garry Fitchett
#79. The struggle ends when the gratitude begins. The search is over when the finding starts. And the finding is not a finding at all, but a creating. You cannot find what you have been struggling for, but you can create it. And the jump-start of creation is gratitude.
Neale Donald Walsch
#80. My objective is to leave my family adequately catered for, but I want my children to make their own way. I want them to have pride in their own achievements.
John Caudwell
#81. Perfection is an admirable thing to strive for. But so is knowing when to stop.
Richelle Mead
#82. My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it.
Santiago Cabrera
#83. These great historical figures we admire for their conquests, their drive, their ambition, and the progress they are said to have been responsible for. But would we have not been better off as a species without them?
Adam Nevill
#84. The superior man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his position, bowing in deference. Descending, he drinks the ritual cup.
Confucius
#85. The day you spend hoping, the day you spend waiting, the day you spend in despair, is a day in your life as much as the tomorrow you hope for, but which may never come, so betting today on tomorrow is always a bad bet.
Merle Shain
#86. The cause isn't worth getting up for, but it is worth sleeping for. Just trying to do my part to help humanity.
Jarod Kintz
#87. Joining another big time rock band was the last thing I was looking for, but as the tour went on, I really dug playing to a lot of people, the band sounded great, and just being out there again, got me over my depression and so I decided to hop on board.
Matt Cameron
#88. Each exists for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe.
Stephen Hawking
#89. Robert rushed to the gravel-pit, found the Psammead, and presently wished for - But that, too, is another story.
E. Nesbit
#90. The refrigerator in my room is still empty as usual, but I can't hear that sound any more. I feel that I can keep believing ... that even the thing all of us were looking for but never found on that day ... someday, surely.. We will find it.
Chica Umino
#91. 'Unicorn Island' is the synonym for my happy place. It's a really beautiful message: that happiness is one of the hardest things you'll ever fight for, but it's the only thing worth fighting for.
Lilly Singh
#92. She loved him, more than she could ever find words for, but this love he felt for her was not quite the same. It wasn't so much stronger, as more demanding, more insistent. As though he feared he would lose that which he had finally won.
Jean M. Auel
#93. It was awkward because the high school that I went to, my aunt taught at, it was this private boy's school in D.C. There were one or two teachers that I had the hots for, but never fully expressed my feelings because my aunt was always watching.
Ian Harding
#94. is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, but a thing to be achieved.
S.M. Butler
#95. It's moments like these that you wait for not knowing what you
are waiting for, but when they come . . . you know that this is
something you could have waited your life for !
Durjoy Dutta
#96. As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
Kate Voegele
#97. For what blessing may a man hope for but
An immortality in
The loving vigilance of death.
Robert Penn Warren
#98. People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#99. There are some things to die for but none to kill for.
Shane Claiborne
#100. If we lean on a human love story as our primary source of fulfillment and happiness, well never find what we are looking for. But when we find our fulfillment in Jesus Christ, we are free to selflessly love our spouse instead of constantly thinking about our own needs and wants
Eric & Leslie Ludy
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