May Quotes - Page 152

We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing

We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important.

You may be better than the rest, but you are not a success until you have made the effort to become the best you can be.

Wherever you may go Wherever you may have been Saying goodbye is fine If you say hello again

Whereas Nature does not admit of more than three dimensions ... it may justly seem very improper to talk of a solid ... drawn into a fourth, fifth, sixth, or further dimension.

There was a perception that the emerging-market problems aren't over and concern that may Brazil devalue.

There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them,--by laying them out in charity.

Whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks the truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.

If, like Jacob, you trust God in little things, He may answer you by great things.

We know the redemption must come. The time and the manner of its coming we know not: It may come in peace, or it may come in blood; but whether in peace or in blood, LET IT COME.

One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.

It must be observed, that the best of men, the most holy and spiritually minded, may have, nay, ought to have, their thoughts of spiritual things excited, multiplied, and confirmed, by the preaching of the word.

We are taught in an especial manner to pray that God would give his Holy Spirit unto us, that through his aid and assistance we may live unto God in that holy obedience which he requires at our hands.

When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet, and its waters are for the most part deep when they are still, so ought our contrivances against it to be vigorous at all times and in all conditions, even where there is least suspicion.

When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone.

Assurance encourateth us in our combat; it delivers us not from it. We may have peace with God when we have done from the assaults of Satan.

Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.

It may be that we cease; we cannot tell. Even if we cease, life is a miracle.

The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.

Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else.