May Quotes - Page 232

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.

There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.

Our adversaries, numerous and formidable, will say, and will have the right to say, that our Principe CrÇateur is identical with the Principe GÇnÇrateur of the Indians and Egyptians, and may fitly be symbolized as it was symbolized anciently, by the linage...To accept this in lieu of a personal God is to abandon Christianity and worship of Jehovah and return to wallow in the styles of Paganism.

Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at the conclusion it may appear as a work of art?

It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets.

The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it.

He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity - suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.

I want to live so fully in the Spirit that...every act of my life may be an act of worship.

I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.

Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.

Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?

Man may rest in the eternal fitness; he may abide in the everlasting; and roam from the beginning to the end of all creation. He may bring his nature to a condition of ONE, he may nourish his strength; he may harmonise his virtue, and so put himself into partnership with God.

I always say, once I get in a room, I can sell myself just fine. I know that not everyone who has a disability has the social skills or cognitive skills that I do, and it may be harder for them to navigate through.

Now let the matter rest as it is, or as it may be, what avail useless speculations? What is to occur we do not know; still in so far we do! what God wills!

All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.

I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

An opportunity is a conjunction of circumstances by which one may improve his condition of life or his equipment for life.

These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife.

to be choked with hate May well be of all evil chances chief.

Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.

The first great work (a task performed by few) Is that yourself may to yourself be true.

What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.

Larger sums may be an advantage at some cases and a disadvantage at others.