May Quotes - Page 197

As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure.

Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it.

He that has patience may compass anything.

We may as well tolerate all religions, since God Himself tolerates all.

However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.

To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

May summer last a hundred years.

Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production.

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.

It may be years until the day My dreams will match up with my pay.

Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.

Though some may have more than others, yet every one hath his load, as much as he can carry. Every vessel cannot bear up with the like sail, and therefore God, to keep us from oversetting, puts on so much as will safest bring us to heaven, our desired port.

Patience may be a virtue, but quitting is an art.

Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.

I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what I learned from Kurt Vonnegut was that I could write stories that say I may not have a solution, but this is wrong - that's good enough.

Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting.

Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought.

If a shot aimed at aptness succeeds aptly, it is then fully apt, since it is not only apt but also aptly apt. But the full aptness of such an attempt is entirely compatible with its being a horrible murder, if the "hunter" is an assassin and the prey his victim. That hunter's shot may still be outstandingly, fully apt, if it manifests the agent's competence in both archery dexterity and shot selection.

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.

I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.

I have a friend who lives by a three-word philosophy: Seize the Moment. Just possibly, she may be the wisest woman on this planet.