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Nothing stands still. Things are either... — William Butler

The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told;
I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart ... — William Butler Yeats

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon. — Samuel Butler

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation. — Samuel Butler

Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease — Octavia Butler

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. — Samuel Butler

I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away. — Octavia E. Butler

With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it. — Octavia E. Butler

Twenty-five or thirty words are supposed to be enough in a news bullet to explain either a war or an unusual set of Christmas lights. — Octavia E. Butler

I mean, I made The Phantom, although The Phantom was, believe it or not, an independent film. It was just a very large, expensive independent film. — Gerard Butler

Did she struggle for life only out of habit, or because some part of her still hoped that there was something worth living for? — Octavia E. Butler

No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority. — William Butler Yeats

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us. — Samuel Butler

A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible. — Ada Leverson

I wear a lot of Brioni and Ferragamo and Dolce, all of those kind of things. — Gerard Butler

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. — Nicholas Butler

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste. — William Butler Yeats

Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second. — Geezer Butler

The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless. — Win Butler

However long the song is was how long it took us to write it. — Geezer Butler

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions. — Samuel Butler

Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it. — Geezer Butler

The Dunns must of felt this when Tracy vanished. Crazy as they are, crazy as she was, they must — Octavia E. Butler

Balance hangs in the fingers of Peace — James Butler

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round. — William Butler Yeats

The Scots will do anything to beat the English or just to see them lose, but I've never bought into that really. — Gerard Butler

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? — William Butler Yeats

I know, although when looks meet
I tremble to the bone,
The more I leave the door unlatched
The sooner love is gone ... — William Butler Yeats

Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young
We loved each other and were ignorant. — William Butler Yeats

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. — William Butler Yeats

The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained. — William Butler Yeats

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler

I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. — Yancy Butler

I can write my own stories and I can write myself in. — Octavia Butler

No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands. — William Butler Yeats

I feel like I'm kind of a bit of a sponge in a way. Like, if people around me are going through things, I find it very hard not to be empathetic. — Win Butler

Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land;
Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand ... — William Butler Yeats

If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen? — Samuel Butler

Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate. — Samuel Butler

I am such a music fiend. I go after so many different types of music. I'm on iTunes constantly just buying new music! — Austin Butler

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful. — William Butler Yeats

Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate. — Samuel Butler

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. — Samuel Butler

There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns. — Octavia E. Butler

I'm sorry that astronaut will be brought back from her own chosen heaven. — Octavia E. Butler

I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do. — Octavia E. Butler

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. — William Butler Yeats

I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience. — Katy Butler

Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't. — Brett Butler

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. — Samuel Butler

Daddy's the only man I know," he said softly, "who cares as much about giving his word to a black as to a white. — Octavia E. Butler

O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host
Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet. — William Butler Yeats

I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels! — Austin Butler

We're exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that regard. — Win Butler

I like smartasses, because I can be smartass back and rashy. — Blake Butler

What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me. — Win Butler

O heart, we are old;
The living beauty is for younger men:
We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears. — William Butler Yeats

Besides, I have a sister who's straight. And I want her to know that I love her and support her. — Dan Butler

I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry. — Samuel Butler

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable. — Joseph Butler

I wouldn't want to be reincarnated as a butler. I couldn't for the life of me do the job in real life. — Jim Carter

I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist. — Judith Butler

How someone treats a waiter or doorman can tell you so much about a person. — Austin Butler

I don't want one play to define me as a player. — Malcolm Butler

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. — Samuel Butler

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. — Samuel Butler

I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I'm extremely lucky, I guess; it's a lucrative venue. — Yancy Butler

The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation. — Samuel Butler

Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals. — Win Butler

I do not relish leaving home, leaving my children, leaving the familiarity of my bed, my coffee maker, my slippers, but I do love hotels. — Nickolas Butler

All because I fell in love with a madman. — Carrie Butler

why can't I do what others have done - ignore the obvious. Live a normal life. It's hard enough just to do that in this world. — Octavia E. Butler

A lot of people didn't get to see Butler's skills throughout the course of the season. — Tom Brady

Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible. — Judith Butler

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good. — Joseph Butler

I'm very down-to-earth. I think I'm still 'street'. — Gerard Butler

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians. — Samuel Butler

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all. — Samuel Butler

My hopes for pie died on the sidewalk. There went my grin. — Carrie Butler

If I had shown half as many dangerous tendencies when I was a boy, my father would have apprenticed me to a greengrocer, of that I'm very sure, — Samuel Butler

In the World War, we used propaganda to make the boys accept conscription. They were made to feel ashamed if they didn't join the army. — Smedley D. Butler

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. — Samuel Butler

There is no release
In a bodkin or disease,
Nor can there be a work so great
As that which cleans man's dirty slate. — William Butler Yeats

Optimism is the foundation of courage. — Nicholas M. Butler

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper. — Samuel Butler

It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring. — William Butler Yeats

Sensible. Conservative and sensible and mature and *wrong*. Very much in character with Joanne. — Octavia E. Butler

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable. — Samuel Butler

I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor. — William Butler Yeats

The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves. — Robert Olen Butler

Depression and anxiety can't fit in your head if you're cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration. — Austin Butler

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction. — Samuel Butler

Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up. — Octavia Butler

It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world. — William Butler Yeats

Young people have a marvellous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. — Samuel Butler

Anything else, Butler?"
"The cosh, sir. — Eoin Colfer

What can I but enumerate old themes? — William Butler Yeats

Our words must seem to be inevitable. — William Butler Yeats

He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright. — Samuel Butler

Please, if you would," the butler said, "no throwing the linens. Peaches, anyone?" -Fritz — J.R. Ward