May Quotes - Page 119

It may be the best that Hillary Clinton can do, but it's not the best America can do.

One magnitude is said to be the limit of another magnitude when the second may approach the first within any given magnitude, however small, though the second may never exceed the magnitude it approaches.

I may not be perfect but I am perfect enough to be a very good rendition of me.

The act of not discussing or confiding the event with another may be more damaging than having experienced the event per se.

It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction.

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

And that's the way of a real tale. Take any one that you're fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale it is, happy-ending or sad-ending, but the people in it don't know. And you don't want them to.

Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn't be related.

Election is always to sanctification. Where there is no visible fruit of sanctification, we may be sure there is no election.

When there is breakdown in a relationship, you must have the hard conversation. It may not be pretty and it may not feel good. But if you are willing to listen and tell the truth, it will open up.

I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.

If you hear some bad collectivistic notions, chances are that they came from [modern] liberals. But if you hear or read something outrageously, god-awfully collectivistic, you may be sure that the author is a conservative.

A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.

It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so easily fall prey to nonsense.

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

We may talk of saving antique linens, species, or languages; but whatever we are intent on saving, when a restoration succeeds, we rescue ourselves.

You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas")

What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception of what he can attain with them, and how they may deceive him; so, too, it seemed to me necessary to investigate likewise the capabilities of our power of thought.

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.

O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.