May Quotes - Page 172

It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly.

He who serves God with what costs him nothing, will do very little service, you may depend on it.

Time may enhance what seems simply dogged or lacking in fantasy now because we are too close to it, because it resembles too closely our own everyday fantasies, the fantastic nature of which we don't perceive. We are better able to enjoy a fantasy as a fantasy when it is not our own.

Whatever else you may need to get clarity, you must start with open eyes.

Sometimes because a woman is beautiful, she's not encouraged to be more, although she may have so much more to offer.

It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready... we'll just have to see.

What is true for the emotions may also be true for the intellect. Some of our perplexities may come from a mismatch between the purposes for which our cognitive faculties evolved and the purposes to which we put them today.

I never learned the secret handshake. That may be one of the reasons I've grown to love English soccer.

I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won't die with my music still in me.

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

And here's the surprising truth: As you gaze at yourself in the mirror held by another, you will see far more than your flaws. You also will see the beauty that is uniquely you; beauty that others see clearly and you may hardly know exists. That is also part of the truth about you.

I’m just going to do what I want now, and let the chips fall where they may.

Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

Only time - whatever that may be - will tell.

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

Style is not a reward for the skinny. It's not, 'iI I'm rich, thin and young.' You may not like your size, but then don't invest in leather leggings. Let yourself want the expensive bag and really love it and show it off and have a ball with it.

If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.

For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.

While the cat's away, you may find the rats getting damned uppity.

Respect, of course is a tricky term. I may respect your gardening by just letting you get on with it. Or, I may respect it by admiring it and regarding it as a superior way to garden.

We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system.

As we distribute ourselves, we may abandon ourselves.

We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.

In the second century A.D. the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius may have best defined pantheism when he wrote, “Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.