May Quotes - Page 239

In human affairs, no single person, organisation or social formation ever has a final or an absolutely correct position. It is through conversation, debate and critical discussion that we approach positions that may provide workable solutions.

Other people have qualities that may be better than your own. Let them express them.

There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubbles in amber,” she explained. “There’s a lot of time in London, and it has to go somewhere—it doesn’t all get used up at once.” “I may still be hung over,” sighed Richard. “That almost made sense.

Life is going to test you. But no matter how bad it may seem, we can always step up and beat it.

The road to success may be, and generally is, obstructed by many influences which must be removed before the goal can be reached.

A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.

Never forget that your days are blessed. You may know how to profit by them, or you may not, but they are blesses.

May my living be grace to those behind me.

Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring."

Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak in an indirect way.Why does contemporary China lack good works that critique our current situation? Because our current situation may not be critiqued. We have not only lost the right to criticise, but the courage to do so.Why is modern China lacking in great writers? Because all the great writers are castrated while still in the nursery.

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

Economists may not know how to run the economy, but they know how to create shortages or gluts simply by regulating prices below the market, or artificially supporting them from above.

When you bluff, someone may call you on it.

May God deny you peace but give you glory!

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

God defend me from myself.

Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life, may be the product of a brain adapted to finding patterns in nature. (38)

We’re not about picking a mayor. We’re about making a mayor, making the winner. And that’s what we’re gonna do…. I talk to them (the mayoral candidates) constantly. All of them. I know all about all of their families. I know about their dogs and this and that.

When I play against someone that's new in the league, I make him respect me. They may have heard about me, but now you get to see me actually in front of you. That drives me.

To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.

I think that when one is dead one should be a little bit bolder, so that the rest of us may have some record of how things actually were.

When you present something that you have worked on to somebody else, for some reason that is the moment when you can see everything that you have done wrong. They may or may not agree, but it is more of a personal thing for me. It is that I am looking at it because you are self conscious and suddenly there is someone in the room that is seeing it for the first time.

If you need to appear on an internet list to know whether you're someone's friend, you may have problems a computer can't solve.