May Quotes - Page 143

No theory of my own will ever stand in the way of my executing, in good faith, any order I may receive from those in authority over me.

You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.

The smaller you get-the smaller life makes you-the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace. While I am far more incapable than I may have initially thought, God is infinitely more capable than I ever hoped.

Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.

The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.

I may be drunk but at least I'm not insane.

A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

We cannot master everything, taste everything, understand everything, drain every experience to its last dregs. But if we have the courage to let almost everything else go, we will probably be able to retain the thing necessary for us-whatever it may be. If we are too eager to have everything, we will almost certainly miss even the one thing we need

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.

It's not so much that I'm an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends.

May nothing wind you up, nothing affright you; everything comes and goes. God, still, just there; through patience all will be achieved. If you have God, you lack nothing: God alone will do.

If in this wide world, teeming with abundant supplies for human want, to thousands of wretched creatures no choice is open, save between starvation and sin, may we not justly say that there is something utterly wrong in the system that permits such things to be?

The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.

What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.

History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.

I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it.