May Quotes - Page 102

Under Syrian law, a journalist is not allowed to report on military matters. This may be wrong or right, but that's just the way it is.

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

The theory of the lung as a gland has justified its existence and done excellent service in bringing forward facts, which shall survive any theoretical construction that has been or may hereafter be put upon them.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change.

Let me earnestly recommend...one studio which you may freely enter and receive in liberal measure the most sure and safe instruction...the Studio of Nature.

Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate by the assembling of significant reliques, the march of the human spirit in its quest for beauty.

Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.

However far back we may be able to trace the - so to speak - internal history of the Universe, there can be no question of arguing that this or that external origin is either probable or improbable. We do not have, and we necessarily could not have, experience of other Universes to tell us that Universes, or Universes with these particular features, are the work of Gods, or of Gods of this or that particular sort.

I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.

I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant

Often,our immediate reaction to a sudden crisis help us save ourselves. Our response to gradual crises that creep up upon us, on the other hand,may be so adaptive as to ultimately lead to self-destruction.

May the spirit of Christ so fill us afresh that we might in turn be a refreshment and an encouragement to one another.

The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts; but until this has occurred, words do not count.

A day may sink or save a realm.

Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.

Set a great example. Someone may imitate it.

May not the inadequacy of much of our spiritual experience be traced back to our habit of skipping through the corridors of the Kingdom like children in the market place, chattering about everything, but pausing to learn the value of nothing.

Whatever may befall us, God knows and cares as no one else can.

I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.

Humans cannot reject temptation. When they are plunged into the depths of despair, likened to hell, they will hold on to anything that may help them escape from the situation they are in, even if it's merely a spider's thread, no matter what sort of humans they are.

They may outsmart me, or be luckier, but they can't outwork me.

The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary.