May Quotes - Page 129

Amid so many problems, even grave, may we not lose our hope in the infinite mercy of God.

May both of them [Saint John XXIII and Saint John Paul II] teach us not to be scandalized by the wounds of Christ and to enter ever more deeply into the mystery of divine mercy, which always hopes and always forgives, because it always loves.

May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.

May God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.

By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse résumé to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready-for nothing in particular.

The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain.

Your dreams may not be happening, and things aren't turning out the way you expected, but that doesn't mean your life is spinning out of control. It just means you're not in control.

Nought may endure but Mutability.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

Pray absolutely for those things you may pray for absolutely. Pray conditionally for those things you may pray for conditionally. For those things you can't pray for - don't.

Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress.

Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?

Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.

Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed.

If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience, it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.

They may well fear fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim: but they who rest on what is have a destiny beyond destiny, and can make mouths of fortune.

You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.

However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good to my fellow creatures, even to the Cui bonos.