May Quotes - Page 194

Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy against him. Its one permanent aim, whatever its form, is to hobble him sufficiently to maintain itself.

On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to make it humane and tolerable.

May your dreams defy the laws of gravity.

Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.

I am willing to walk toward, and then through, whatever may be seen in the moment as being greater than myself.

Love always has its price, come whence it may.

The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.

An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

Evidence is strongly suggesting Bipolar Disorder - previously known as Manic Depression - may be dramatically increasing in modern society.

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

Anyone who has ever experienced dehumanized life on welfare or any other confidence-shaking dependency knows that a paid job may be preferable to the dole, even when the handout is coming from a family member.

That which we have lived is nothing; that which we live is a point; that which we have to live is not yet a point, but may be a point which, together, shall be and shall have been.

Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution.

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance, even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic.

If you want to get into a good entrepreneurial business, guillotines may be in fashion.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

If you do not understand what God's present claims over you are, you may depend upon it that as days of testing come on you will not be able to keep your footing.

Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.

The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of Peace and amity toward other Nations.

May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.