But Quotes

I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded.

I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.

I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.

One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'.

I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.

Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.

The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.

We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.

I'm falling into disrepair

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes love it the next morning, but other times it is an abomination.

If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be.

Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it.

It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.

Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism.

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.

A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

Even though I dislike being kicked by others, I do enjoy the feeling of kicking others

She shuddered. “What is it with slobbery kissers? Are they trying to drown us in spit? I mean, Jesus, swallow every now and then.

There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds.

I think Donald Trump understands there's a Constitution. And that those separate but equal branches of government give us a limited government. And he believes that.

Society is a little more forgiving of two women kissing than two men. It's sad but true.

A men whose every word is nothing but the truth is not a human being but a god! Gods do not die, whereas Aristotle is lying in a grave now.

Most music careers slowly but surely go down.

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.

And I don't want you to be anywhere but here

Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over.

There hasn't been anybody else write a Constitution like Madison. There just hasn't been, because that person hasn't existed anywhere but here.

you'd like the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That must be the most futile oath anyone ever swears.

Separate but equal is terrible for education but it's perfect for eyebrows.

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry

The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely.

I am a good runner. There are many faster, but not so many for whom it has been as necessary to learn to become nothing but flight.

Mrs. Bulstrode's naïve way of conciliating piety and worldliness, the nothingness of this life and desirability of cut glass, the consciousness at once of filthy rags and the best damask...

You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else’s mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

She lives her life like a flame

Isn't it strange how people are selective about the truth the want to see or hear?

... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!

There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.

I was a man who thrived on solitude

Well sue me for staring. I'd be willing to scrub away my shame on his washboard abs.

You haven't written anything about me yet!" She said in a complaining wayHe replied in a sorrowful tone "I wish you could read my unwritten poems

I covet solitude and storms…and rain, with its geography of dark silence and distance