May Quotes - Page 198

While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.

Live intensely and dangerously. The world may not depend on your efforts, but you do.

Anything will worry me. I may not get a check for the light bill off in time and I just get to worrying. I'm a worrywart.

The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.

To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take the trifle Termed mortality!

To die before one fears to die may be a boon.

I would say that it is a trait by which Americans, searching for things which are different or new, seem to recognize the gift that people may have that cause people do to things.

Only a system of state-controlled schools can be free to teach whatever the welfare of the State may demand.

But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.

Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?

Ghosts, we hope, may be always with us - that is, never too far out of the reach of fancy. On the whole, it would seem they adapt themselves well, perhaps better than we do, to changing world conditions - they enlarge their domain, shift their hold on our nerves, and, dispossessed of one habitat, set up house in another. The universal battiness of our century looks like providing them with a propitious climate.

The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. He is carried to a subject which has awaited him--a subject sometimes no part of his conscious plan. Reality, the reality of sensation, has accumulated where it was least sought. To write is to be captured--captured by some experience to which one may have given hardly a thought.

Some ideas, like dandelions in lawns, strike tenaciously: you may pull off the top but the root remains, drives down suckers and may even sprout again.

But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.

May the good God pardon all good men.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

Wisdom may be perennial, but to see its relevance we must see it lived out.

Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.

The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.

He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

Society's emissions of carbon dioxide may or may not turn out to have something significant to do with global warming-the jury is still out.

Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity.

Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in May And hive the the trifty sweetness for December!