May Quotes - Page 181

It is harder for women, perhaps to be 'one-pointed,' much harder for them to clear space around whatever it is they want to do beyond household chores and family life. Their lives are fragmented... the cry not so much for a 'a room of one's own' as time of one's own. Conflict become acute, whatever it may be about, when there is no margin left on any day in which to try at least to resolve it.

[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick.

...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.

I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners.

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known.

You may not have faith in my friend fate, But my friend fate has faith in you.

Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.

Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare.

Of course I want to be good, but that may not be to your advantage.

What is Providence for you may be Nemesis for me.

Lies save trouble now, but may return in thunder and lightning.

Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do.

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.

Such creatures of accident are we, liable to a thousand deaths before we are born. But once we are here, we may create our own world, if we choose.

In times of hurt and discouragement, it may be consoling for all of us to recall that no one can do anything permanently to us that will last for eternity. Only we ourselves can affect our eternal progression.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the sole object of pleasing God.

Hate furroweth the brow; and a man may frown till he hateth.

The ones who count are those persons who - though they may be of little renown - respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit.

A confession you make merely to illuminate the murky corners of your little life may end up lighting the path to freedom for a thousand other hearts.

How someone is responding to you may have nothing to do with you.