May Quotes - Page 190

In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.

Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant yet at present necessary dislocation.

Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.

The scapegoat upon whom the sins of the people are periodically laid, may also be a human being.

Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to action.

Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.

One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.

When we know exactly all a man's views and how he comes to speak and act so and so, we lose any respect for him, though we may love and admire him.

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the characters which they perpetuate.

Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.

I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.

Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. It can be so, sometimes.

Fair speech may hide a foul heart.

You may not like my burglar, but please don't damage him.

For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest.

It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.

May the hair on your toes never fall out!

Why was I chosen?' 'Such questions cannot be answered,' said Gandalf. 'You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

Sin may then be defined ultimately as anything in the creature which does not express, or which is contrary to, the holy character of the Creator

....religion may be best be described as an emotion resting on a conviction of a harmony between ourselves and the universe at large.

Where no visible fruit can be found, there you may be sure is no conversion.