May Quotes - Page 238

There's an older generation that feels like they know what the future should be. And then there's your generation that may have an idea of what the future should be, but that could evolve.

Worrying is the interest paid on a debt you may not owe.

There is a spark of good in everybody, no matter how deeply it may be buried. It is the real you.

Planning involves considering how other people may use something.

We tear ourselves inside out for something the world may love, then base our worth on that.

[ Alexis de] Tocqueville said it in 1835, and it's as true today as it was then: 'Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. Religion is more needed in democratic societies than in any other.'

Your life may be really boring in reality, but online you're a competitive superhero.

It is ill to marry in the month of May.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it may die in an hour of a single unwise word.

Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.

A maverick may go his own way but he doesn't think that it's the only way or ever claim that it's the best one, except maybe for himself. And don't imagine that this raggle-taggle gypsy is claiming to be free. It's just that some of the necessities to which I am a slave are different from yours.

Make every occasion a great occasion, for you can never tell who may be taking your measure for a higher place.

Gather kittens while you may, Time brings only sorrow; And the kittens of today; Will be old cats tomorrow.

A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.

A victim of God may, Through learning adaption, Become a partner of God, A victim of God may, Through forethought and planning, Become a shaper of God. Or a victim of God may, Through shortsightedness and fear, Remain God's victim, God's plaything, God's prey.

Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not at all the same person, when I handed the manuscript to the publisher, as I had been when I began. A memoir may always be retrospective, but the past is not where its action takes place.

And then in life, you always have to try, and today, I may not have succeeded, but I am happy to have tried to beat my record.

But I could never have done it," he objected, "without everyone else's help." "That may be true," said Reason gravely,"but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation

Vending Machine: "This product has no known nutritional value and may cause irritability or wakefulness in some individuals. Please enjoy your selection and your day." Eve: "Up yours.

To all who pass that they may see, Rock 'N' Roll was a part of me.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I'm not going to change that one bit.

May we awaken from forgetfulness and realize our true home.