May Quotes - Page 185

So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.

I, uh...I have a television, so I'm going to spend some time here to tell you some things. [To orchestra conductor:] And, and...and sir, you're doing a great job, but you're so quick with that stick, so why don't you sit. 'Cause I may never be here again.'

You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

In its purest form, dating is auditioning for mating (and auditioning means we may or may not get the part).

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

To be the authentic is to be detached and stand aside from oneself and the work so that the working process can take on an untrammeled life of its own. Labored self-involvement, contrivance, ulterior motives, even the extraordinary facility that one may have, must be let go.

You might be an interested guy, an interested reported then I get to know you and then I know you're this also and you're this also and you may hide it in a certain way. That's what I love.

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.

We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.

What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.

The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.

Let us strive for personal, practical integrity in every endeavor, regardless of how mundane or inconsequential it may seem.

Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all God's commandments, making conscience even of little sins and little duties.

We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.

An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience.

The intelligence of affection is carried on by the eye only; good-breeding has made the tongue falsify the heart, and act a part of continued restraint, while nature has preserved the eyes to herself, that she may not be disguised or misrepresented.

The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature.

There is another method of obtaining money... It does not presuppose the existence of accumulated results of previous development, and hence may be considered as the only one which is available in strict logic. This method of obtaining money is the creation of purchasing power by banks. The form it takes is immaterial.

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.

In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air.