May Quotes - Page 247

[Nominee for the Supreme Court] will be something designed to very much please conservatives, even as they may get a little nervous on some of what he's talking about in terms of ObamaCare and infrastructure.

What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.

My mother raised me to be bold. If I do not go, I will spend the rest of my life wondering what might have happened if I had." "If you do go, the rest of your life may be too short for wondering. - Asha & Rodrick

Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

That general warrants, whereby an officer or messenger may be commanded to search suspected places without evidence of a fact committed, or to seize any person or persons not named, or whose offence is not particularly described and supported by evidence, are grievous and oppressive, and ought not to be granted.

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

You're asking me will my love grow. I don't know, I don't know. You stick around now it may show. I don't know, I don't know

It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.

To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.

If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation!

In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.

The shorter the hours, the larger the income. Don't get into the habit of putting in long hours or you may be set down into a permanent subordinate position.

Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.

Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a good person, raise your children, and be good to your friends, which you may not have been back when you were clever.

When you find the one, my lad, grab her up in your arms and never let her go. You may never get another chance.

[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it is probable, since the sensational triumphs of Einstein, that stellar astronomy and atomic physics are the only sciences which stand higher in popular estimation.

they may all be drunk at my place, but they're all honest, and though we do lie-because I lie, too-in the end we'll lie our way to the truth

Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.