May Quotes - Page 134

The States then being the parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity, that there can be no tribunal above their authority, to decide in the last resort, whether the compact made by them be violated; and consequently that as the parties to it, they must themselves decide in the last resort, such questions as may be of sufficient magnitude to require their interposition.

Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general, and to slacken the bands of Society. If it be difficult to execute any law which is not generally deemed necessary or salutary, what must be the case, where it is deemed invalid and dangerous? And what may be the effect of so striking an example of impotency in the Government, on its general authority?

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.

For some reason, that I can’t really explain, at the beginning of Radiolab, it always felt like life or death. Even though it was just a radio show. Even though no one was listening. And I am not quite sure why… but it may have to do with that radical uncertainty you feel when you are trying to work without a template.

I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction, but it has to be true.

Will you love me in December as you do in May?

War may break out unexpectedly. Wars are not declared, nowadays. They simply start.

If the Bible is uniquely and inerrantly inspired, then we have certainty; we may know real truth about God

A visionary may see, but a leader must decide.

We may love money without having it, just as we may have money without loving it.

There are times when we do not recognize that it is time for us to move forward. When life is ready for us to move and we resist, life will move us by any means necessary. What may feel like a disaster is actually a graduation. Remain open to being guided, supported and protected by the universe.

I am the wheat of God, and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of God.

No one will deny that the soul of Pythagoras was sent to mankind from Apollo's domain, having either been one of his attendants, or more intimate associates, which may be inferred both from his birth, and his versatile wisdom.

Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.

It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.

Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow.

The precise location of heaven on earth has never been established but it may very well be right here

May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

You may have to live in a crowd, but you do not have to live like it.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.