May Quotes - Page 174

It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.

We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

I am one of the few people I know of who has argued in print that torture may be an ethical necessity in our war on terror.

Startups are very hard no matter what you do; you may as well go after a big opportunity.

It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.

Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance. Let us not, on either side, claim that we have already discovered the truth. Let us seek it together as something which is known to neither of us. For then only may we seek it, lovingly and tranquilly, if there be no bold presumption that it is already discovered and possessed.

This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

Believe that you may understand.

The spirit of the Japanese nation is, by its nature, a thing that must be propagated over the seven seas and extended over the five continents. Anything that may hinder its progress must be abolished, even by force.

Only, as long as we're going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of no value.

When it comes to making love, I may not be the best, but I'm damn gouda.

Fool! You may hate me...But I...I haven't stopped thinking of you for a single day.

If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical.

In all cases where work is produced by heat, a quantity of heat proportional to the work done is expended; and inversely, by the expenditure of a like quantity of work, the same amount of heat may be produced.

The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon.

Whatever a person's ultimate concern may be, it will have an enormous influence on everything else the person does or believes.

Certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it is.

If Ron Dellums running for mayor gives you hope, then let's get on with it.

It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.

Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.

The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.

You were born into fearlessness, but the world may have taught you to fear.