May Quotes - Page 203

In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another; is there any harm in letting it alone?

As there are none so weak that we may venture to injure them with impunity, so there are none so low that they may not at some time be able to repay an obligation. Therefore, what benevolence would dictate, prudence would confirm.

Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals.

Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.

We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?

A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

The meek may inherit the earth, but they wont get the ball from me.

Cardiff Stadium was a warm up for the 3 Hyde Park shows. James Brown opened. And I think it may be the only time we played Mini Epic live.

George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.

The Goddess teaches us that every ending is also a beginning. May there be rebirth from this death.

I may be a killer," Jace said, "but I know what I am. Can you say the same?

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

Words may help and silence may help, but the one thing needful is that the heart should turn to its Maker as the needle turns to the pole. For this we must be still.

Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.

The deduction of effect from cause is often blocked by some insuperable extrinsic obstacle: the true causes may be quite unknown. Nowhere in life is this so common as in war, where the facts are seldom fully known and the underlying motives even less so.

Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right, and is certainly just as powerful and effective; but such cases are rare.

It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.

I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.

The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.

So many times, we take things to heart and that eats us up, and we think it over and over again with work and our personal life. But most of the time, it is not personal. It may have nothing to do with you but, instead, what the other person is going through in their life.

I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently offended...The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China.

God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous

Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, "I am what I do.