Top 100 Is But Quotes
#1. When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
Khalil Gibran
#3. Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it.
Noel Coward
#4. Think of the countless changes in which you yourself have bad a part. The whole universe is change, and life is but what you deem it.
Marcus Aurelius
#5. And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.
Walt Whitman
#6. Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.
Ogden Nash
#7. There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.
Harry S. Truman
#8. Someone like my mum would say, Oh, you're just a kid, you don't know what love is.But I didn't think of anything else apart from being with Alicia, and the only time I felt like I was where I wanted to be was when I was with her. I mean, that may as well be love, mightn't it?
Nick Hornby
#9. Stop and consider! life is but a day
John Keats
#10. This is my 51st year, but I'm not ready to quit. I definitely didn't think when I first started back in 1963 that I'd be doing this for 50 years, but how many guys can say they do it? When retirement comes, I'm not sure when it is, but I'll be ready for it.
Verne Lundquist
#11. The genome that we decipher in this generation is but a snapshot of an ever-changing document. There is no definitive edition.
Matt Ridley
#12. Revolution is but thought carried into action.
Emma Goldman
#14. We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films.
John Lasseter
#15. Matter is but the artificial division of energy.
Adriano Bulla
#16. Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder
but not the ladder.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#17. The creature's good is a superadded quality, in God it is His essence. He is infinitely good; the creature's good is but a drop, but in God there in an infinite ocean or gathering together of good.
Thomas Manton
#18. The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave.
Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
#19. If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.
William Gibson
#20. So much depends not on how awkward destiny is, but rather on how openly it is embraced.
John O'Donohue
#21. Odd, isn't it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day ...
Mary Downing Hahn
#22. At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring us back to this study.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#23. O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone!
William Shakespeare
#24. Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas,
it is not safe to praise to a friend the object of your love;
as soon as he believes your praises, he slips into your place.
Ovid
#25. Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race
unhappily.
Jules Verne
#26. God's revelation is in the gospel not only reveals who He is, but it also reveals who we are.
David Platt
#27. To cut the head off and then hack the limbs, Like wrath in death and envy afterwards. For Antony is but a limb of Caesar. 165 Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.
William Shakespeare
#28. Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
Michel De Montaigne
#29. I can't tell you what consciousness is, but I know I can only think when I am conscious.
Debasish Mridha
#30. Life is but a breath,
man is only dust;
today he is here,
tomorrow he is no more.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#32. God has made no one absolute. The rich depend on the poor, as well as the poor on the rich. The world is but a magnificent building; all the stones are gradually cemented together. No one subsists by himself.
Owen Feltham
#33. The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it.
Marcus Aurelius
#34. I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
#35. I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be,
Robert Doisneau
#36. All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly.
William Ellery Channing
#37. Missionary work is but home teaching to those who are not now members of the Church, and home teaching is nothing more or less than missionary work to Church members
Harold B. Lee
#38. All is but illusion and disaster.
Voltaire
#39. The current age is but a brief moment in the greater scope of existence.
Laurelin Paige
#40. To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
Wendell Berry
#41. Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new.
Walter Annenberg
#42. I always knew that adulthood didn't count; following puberty, all existence is but epilogue.
Amelie Nothomb
#43. It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
Samuel Butler
#44. In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.
Charlotte Smith
#45. If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'
Bret Harte
#46. People say home is where the heart is but my heart feels far from home i just feel like an outsider or someone who is a freak but i know one thing for certain love can make a family
Felisha Rush
#47. What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.
Maria Edgeworth
#48. She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
William Penn
#49. I do tend to be an anxious fellow, and I do tend to see the world as a little darker than perhaps it genuinely is, but I also do appreciate much more than a rosy scenario, I appreciate straight news.
David Rakoff
#50. To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.
George MacDonald
#51. Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest.
The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Alexander Pope
#52. Everyone asks what the meaning of life is, but no one asks about the meaning of death.
Jo Nesbo
#53. I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.
William Shakespeare
#55. I think that someone is watching out for me, God, my guardian angel, I'm not sure who that is, but they really work hard.
Mattie Stepanek
#56. A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
Swami Sivananda
#58. Darkness is but a door, scary not because it opens, but out of fear that it will never close
Johnathan Jena
#59. Home is hard... People say home is where the heart is, but I think maybe home IS the heart
David Arnold
#60. For me I'd say ... a fact that nobody knows about me is that I hate eggs, they gross me out. It's this weird thing from childhood, I don't know what it is, but I just think eggs are disgusting.
Mikey Way
#61. And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses?
Edgar Allan Poe
#62. I know people think suicide is selfish, and maybe sometimes it really is. But what happened to Kai was beyond what anyone should have to cope with. I didn't blame him, not really. It just broke my heart that I wasn't enough to keep him here.
Cat Clarke
#63. I don't know how it is ... but you seem to think me something wonderful, and indeed, I am not.
Georgette Heyer
#64. From a Christian point of view of course we do want a peaceful world, and I think September 11 did actually make people aware not only of vulnerability and how transitory life is, but there are forces of good and honor and justice which speak to us of God and his love for us.
George Carey
#65. I am a convinced believer that nothing is "as it is", but it is something that "can become", or we can make out of, if we put faith in our inner resources and feelings to bring the right impetus to the driving wheels of our lives' mechanism. (Soar)
Soar
#66. My beautiful, my Isobel. My Love. You ask me to wait. And so I wait.
For all of this, I know, is but a dream.
And when, in sleep, at last we wake,
I will see you again.
Kelly Creagh
#67. The body is but a container for the spirit. Only your heart ... Only your spirit is the one true existence. And the one who decides the state of your spirit, is yourself.
Reki Kawahara
#68. This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom
the very fashion of which passeth away.
Francois Fenelon
#69. Childhood is but a frolicking wave in the vast ocean.Can anyone hold it back?
Adyasha Das
#70. It's not how the world is, but that it is, that is cause for astonishment.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#71. Life is but a sleep disturbed by dreaming, prompted by the will; the saddened soul with sadness hides it's secrets, and the gay, with thrill.
Khalil Gibran
#72. Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
Wendell Phillips
#75. My belief, through my experiences, is that the world in which we live is but an illusionary world, a world that one day we will leave behind as we travel on toward our destiny and toward reality.
Rosemary Altea
#76. Whatever your problem, it is but a test in love. If you meet that test through love, your problem will be solved. If you do not meet that test through love, your problem will continue until you do! Your problem is your initiation in love.
Catherine Ponder
#77. I can't give you happiness. I can show you where it is, but I can't give it to you. How can I give you what you already have? You have to get it yourself, inside your mind.
Frederick Lenz
#78. The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.
John C. Calhoun
#80. Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.
Emily Greene Balch
#81. Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#83. [To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.
Madame De Stael
#84. The Cowardly Lion laughed, and said: I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such little things as flowers came near to killing me, and such small animals as mice have saved my life. How strange it all is! But,
L. Frank Baum
#85. There is but one answer to terrorism and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle.
Theodore Roosevelt
#86. For regret, like desire, seeks not to analyse but to gratify itself. When one begins to love, one spends one's time, not in getting to know what one's love really is, but in arranging for tomorrow's rendezvous.
Marcel Proust
#87. Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story ... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about ... in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth.
Val Guest
#89. Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced.
Swami Vivekananda
#91. The greatest gift an actor can have is not revealing who he is but through the parts he plays. Unfortunately, we live in a world where everyone wants to know everything all the time and I think it takes away part of the fun of acting that we have to go through that all the time.
Jude Law
#92. Childhood is but change made gay and visible ...
Alice Meynell
#93. People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways, people experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to be.
Jonah Lehrer
#94. It's old. Really old.
Is that a technical term?
Yeah, it's technical. Translation: I don't know how old it is, but it's really fucking old.
Wow. That is old.
Alex Adams
#95. Cheating's not easy. You probably think it is, but it ain't. I bet you'd suck more at cheating than whatever it was you were trying to do legitimately.
Justin Halpern
#96. I don't know exactly what it is, but it looks like interconnected websites where people show their photos and write about everything going on in their lives, like whether they found a parking spot or what they ate for breakfast."
"But why?" Josh asks.
Jay Asher
#97. Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house.
Edie Falco
#98. There is no death. The thing that we call death
Is but another, sadder name for life.
Richard Henry Stoddard
#99. There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.
Heraclitus
#100. All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this earth. If only there was a firmer foundation upon which to sail, perhaps some divine word.
Socrates
