May Quotes - Page 246

The sixth grade made my life successful by preparing me for the seventh and the seventh by preparing me for the eighth and so on. May it do the same for you.

An ideal is an unselfish aspiration. Its purpose is the general welfare not only of this but of future generations. It is a thing of the spirit. It is a generous and humane desire that all men may share equally in a common good. Our ideals are the cement, which binds human society.

When a place advertises itself as 'World Famous,' you may be sure it isn't.

Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles

A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be Uranus, or it may be in the shutter.

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

A word of advice, if I may? Explosions are an excellent way to kill the undead. But you should probably take a few steps back first, kid.

The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions.

When you kill a little time, you may be murdering opportunity.

May the dreams of your previous be the reality of your potential.

Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.

... we may remember what the Romansthought a cultivated person ought to be: one who knows how to choose his company among men, among things, among thoughts, in the present as well as in the past.

Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development.

[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.

Nothing remains interesting where anything may happen.

As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.

May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second!

I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.

How thankful I am, how thankful we all must be, for the women in our lives. God bless them. May His great love distill upon them and crown them with luster and beauty, grace and faith.

A mild attack of apoplexy may be called death's retaining fee.

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not.

The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.

Why should I expect to be exempt from censure; the unfailing lot of an elevated station? My Heart tells me it has been my unremitted aim to do the best circumstances would permit; yet, I may have been very often mistaken in my judgment of the means.