May Quotes - Page 175

Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else.

I may not have succeeded in halting the war, but I did secure the right of parliament to decide on war.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

No joy so great but runneth to an end,No hap so hard but may in fine amend.

In the '90s it was irrational exuberance. Now it may be irrational doom and gloom.

The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live a moral life.

Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong.

Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.

If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.

Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God.

Love may be blind, but if you've ever known a blind person, they still know where everything is.

It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.

Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned or unlearned, which may be at its disposal.

My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.

Working as a teaboy may have helped my confidence, but not everyone else was so pleased. I could never remember who had milk or how many sugars, and I had an unusual talent for spilling tea on the recording console.

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

Habits are formed, not at one stroke, but gradually and insensibly; so that, unless vigilant care be employed, a great change may come over the character without our being conscious of any.

Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked last time may not work this time.

Underlying all your choices, particularly subject matter and the way you represent it, should be your own personal scruples, the standards and rules that you voluntarily set for yourself, and which you may change or abandon whenever you choose - without explanation to anyone.

If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don't ask why, or what difficulties you may get into.

Natural playgrounds may decrease bullying.

I may have exaggerated a bit when I said that 80 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs. What I meant to say was 75 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs

I have a suggestion: When a temple is conveniently nearby, small things may interrupt your plans to go to the temple. Set specific goals, considering your circumstances, of when you can and will participate in temple ordinances. Then do not allow anything to interfere with that plan.

Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.