May Quotes - Page 20

Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.

In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.

Yet let us not pass from memory those left absent from our arms. Those who sacrificed their lives so that all may live free!

You know, you may not be born in Puerto Rico, but Puerto Rican is definitely born in you.

If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?

I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

We’re conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware – beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.

Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.

Within every man and woman is a force that directs and controls the entire course of life. Properly used, it can heal every affliction and ailment we may have.

As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.

Doctors may have told you there is no hope for you medically, but you can always find supernatural HOPE from God's Word.

Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.

If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be in great peril at that moment.

The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.

Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.

In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.

To whom it may concern, I'm the same.

Anything that is within someone else's reach is also within yours. Set your goals no matter how impossible they may seem. Then focus on what is between you and that goal. And then, simply take out the obstacles as they come.

I like to say that while antimatter may seem strange, it is strange in the sense that Belgians are strange. They are not really strange; it is just that one rarely meets them.

The bourgeois public sphere may be conceived above all as the sphere of private people come together as a public; they soon claimed the public sphere regulated from above against the public authorities themselves, to engage them in a debate over the general rules governing relations in the basically privatized but publicly relevant sphere of commodity exchange and social labor.

In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.