May Quotes - Page 213

Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.

What I did, when I did it, was honest; now, through changed conditions, what I did may or may not be called honest. Politics demand, therefore, that I be brought to trial; but what is really being brought to trial is the system I represented.

The sciences are said, and they are truly said, to have a mutual connection, that any one of them may be the better understood, for an insight into the rest.

Our unalterable resolution would be to be free. They have attempted to subdue us by force, but God be praised! in vain. Their arts may be more dangerous then their arms. Let us then renounce all treaty with them upon any score but that of total separation, and under God trust our cause to our swords.

Divine Scripture is wont to frame, as it were, allurements for children from the things which are found in the creature; whereby, according to their measure, and as it were by steps, the affections of the weak may be moved to seek those things that are above, and to leave those things that are below. But the same Scripture rarely employs those things which are spoken properly of God, and are not found in any creature; as, for instance, that which was said to Moses, I am that I am; and, I Am has sent me to you."

Now, may our God be our hope. He Who made all things is better than all things. He Who made all beautiful things is more beautiful than all of them. He Who made all mighty things is more mighty than all of them. He Who made all great things is greater than all of them. Learn to love the Creator in His creature, and the maker in what He has made.

Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.

It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.

Not that which is inspires the creation, but that which may be; not the actual, but the possible.

Cases of genocide carried out as policy may be found in historical documents as well as in the oral histories of Indigenous communities.

Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.

Be sure to choose what you believe and why you believe it, because if you don't choose your beliefs, you may be certain that some belief, and probably not a very credible one, will choose you.

I may as well do everything as if it’s brand new, and if I start to feel that any of it’s a compromise, then I’ll...I’ll be in Wisconsin.

So little time we live in Time, And we learn all so painfully, That we may spare this hour's term To practice for Eternity.

Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper.

Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.

The man that will nocht quhen he may Sall haif nocht quhen he wald.

Louers be war and tak gude heid about Quhome that ye lufe, for quhome ye suffer paine. I lat yow wit, thair is richt few thairout Quhome ye may traist to haue trew lufe agane.

Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.

The world may need fixing, but it's worth preserving.

Always carry with you into the pulpit a sense of the immense consequences which may depend on your full and faithful presentation of the truth.

Their moral influence will then do infinitely more to advance the true interests of religion, than any measures which they may call on Congress to enact.

The semanticists are exactly wrong in regarding language as an obstruction or series of pitfalls. Language, on the contrary, appears as a great storehouse of universal memory, or it may be said to serve as a net, not imprisoning us but supporting us and aiding us to get at a meaning beyond present meaning through the very fact that it embodies others' experiences.

Yes; we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be, with an individual.