May Quotes - Page 137

Democrats may be in the minority in Congress, but we speak for the majority of Americans.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of glory, myself, or maybe simply disappear someday, far out in the heart of the wilderness I love, all by myself, alone with the Universe and whatever God may happen to be looking on. Disappear - and never return. That's my fantasy.

A great nose may be an index Of a great soul

The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.

A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered

Now, I'm simply working with people I want to work with. I just want to have good working experiences and let the dice fall where they may.

We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.

Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.

It is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain.

I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I'm just going to live with the animals and adopt an elephant, and it's going to be my friend.

What you dismiss as an ordinary coincidence may be an opening to an extraordinary adventure.

If we can take the time to mute the noise we've build around ourselves the rhythm of the heartbeats and the purpose may be clear.

My duty is not affected by what others may or may not do to discharge their own.

Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.

In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation.

Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude - but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.

We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.