May Quotes - Page 205

The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.

What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.

I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me.

For Age and Want save while you may; No morning Sun lasts a whole day.

Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.

Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.

Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.

I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.

Sir, very few people reach posterity. Who amongst us may arrive at that destination I presume not to vaticinate. Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.

More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.

Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.

I am confident that we will meet whatever challenges the future may bring.

We all may have prejudices, but we're not all part of a system that reinforces, reinvents and reaffirms itself every day of our lives, systemically.

Extremely disappointed that corruption may have reached such a level in Mexico.

The cold view to take of our future is that we are therefore headed for extinction in a universe of impersonal chemical, physical, and biological laws. A more productive, certainly more engaging view, is that we have the intelligence to grasp what is happening, the composure not to be intimidated by its complexity, and the courage to take steps that may bear no fruit in our lifetimes.

The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.

Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.

I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project.

We may seem fine, even when the pain remains right there beneath our surface.

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.