May Quotes - Page 180

No fountain so small but that Heaven may be imaged in its bosom.

Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'

The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.

No person may enjoy outstanding success without good health.

The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.

When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.

Oh, I know all about my mother and me,' you may say. 'All that business with my mother was over years ago.' You don't and it wasn't.

Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be there, but you will have ceased to live.

What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,' but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the end.

May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.

When you think you're listening to several conversations at once, they tell me, you may really simply be time sharing - that is, listening a little bit to this one, a little bit to that one

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.

We may not be in Manchester but we will always be united

Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

Malicious men may die, but malice never.

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.

Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

When you compete with someone as good or better than you, you may not always win, but you never lose.

I took cooking classes when I was younger; girls weren't interested in me, and I thought I may be alone for the rest of my life.

About the fearful sphere which we inhabit, whose centre may be calculated and whose circumference is physically established, there spin metaphors whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference shows itself only through holes in the dark.

We cannot change others, but when we change ourselves, we may end up changing the world.

Nonviolent Peaceforce ...is building a large-scale professional force of well-trained unarmed peacekeepers ... This nonviolent peacekeeping provides an alternative to which we may say YES when we say NO to war.

Are you badly hurt?" "Hideously," said the king, without sounding injured at all. "I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides as I stand here before you.