May Quotes - Page 145

I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.

Forgive that you may be forgiven.

Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.

'Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way.

Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.

Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body.

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.

All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.

Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.

Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.

It is certain that success naturally confirms in us a favourable opinion of our own abilities. Scarce any man is willing to allot to accident, friendship, and a thousand causes, which concur in every event without human contrivance or interposition, the part which they may justly claim in his advancement. We rate ourselves by our fortune rather than our virtues, and exorbitant claims are quickly produced by imaginary merit.

A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

The whelp of a wolf must prove a wolf at last, notwithstanding he may be brought up by a man.

He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one by intent.

Increasing recycling in Delaware is an idea whose time has come and, if put off, may not come again.

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception.

Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that.

We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism at any time is equal to its genetic variance in fitness at that time.

The million, million, million ... to one chance happens once in a million, million, million ... times no matter how surprised we may be that it results in us.

Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won't see until the bear market comes.

However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.

When many people individually get what they want, the result may be something they collectively dislike.

The establishment of formal standards for proofs about programs... and the proposal that the semantics of a programming language may be defined independently of all processors for that language, by establishing standards of rigor for proofs about programs in the language, appears to be novel.