May Quotes - Page 105

What potent blood hath modest May.

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.

Because He freely owned my guilt I may freely own my sin. Guilty as charged, and yet, not guilty at all.

The mob is easily led and may be moved by the smallest force, so that its agitations have a wonderful resemblance to those of the sea.

No matter how numerous they may be, mutations do not produce any kind of evolution.

One may not eat what has a face.

Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more reason to work and become miserable. Such is the inexorable law of capitalist production.

Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; like an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another; so hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

We may live victoriously, not because we have any power within ourselves, but because when we give ourselves to God, He gives himself to us.

The automatic machine, whatever we thinkof any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of the slave.

It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works.

For as laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manner that laws may be maintained. [It., Perche, cosi come i buoni costumi, per mantenersi, hanno bisogno delli leggi; cosi le leggi per ossevarsi, hanno bisogno de' buoni costumi.]

The innovator has for enemies all who have done well under the old, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

May all beings learn how to nourish themselves with joy each day.

if you go through life looking for insults, you may be comfortably assured of finding them.

The horse on the treadmill may be very discontented, but he is not disposed to tell his troubles, for he cannot stop to talk.

Life may more than once call upon you to prove Who You Are by demonstrating an aspect of Who You Are Not.

Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.

What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it.

The greatest danger of traditional education is that learning may remain purely verbal.

You may be capable of great things, But life consists of small things.

The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.