May Quotes - Page 282

Social evolution may be the result of intention, but it rarely, if ever, produces the result intended.

One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.

...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.

History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Two men who may be called pillars of the Western haiku movement, Harold G. Henderson and R. H. Blyth. . . .

Put on the company hat. (Be willing to accept actions that may have a negative impact upon a particular component but are in the best interests of the company as a whole.)

... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death.

May you get more out of life than a cup of tea.

...the questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits.

I am always in awe of people who devote their lives to a good cause and are brave enough to take a stance, though it may be controversial in their time.

I would have thought that one of the things one should learn from college is that nothing is guaranteed. Even if you study something as vocational as accountancy, you still may end up not getting a job as an accountant.

A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to read a book.

We may not need God to tell us where the world came from, but we need God to be able to live moral lives and for there to be morality in the first place.

I may be an optimist.

You know, we may just be planting seeds for future generations, but that's okay. We can't be deterred from doing things, because we might be laughed at, because somebody might say, "What did you think you'd accomplish by turning your back on the secretary of state," or something like that.

I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected. Because if you like me you can throw me away too quick. If you respect me, you may not even like what I was wearing, but you'll say, "I respect that."

Randy Pausch on time management: Here's what I know: Time must be explicitly managed, like money. You can always change your plan, but only if you have one. Ask yourself: Are you spending your time on the right things? Develop a good filing system. Rethink the telephone. Delegate. Take a time out. Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think.

The president's rattling the saber and beating the drums may have an effect.

We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.

I think it is the best of humanity that goes out to walk. In happy hours, I think all affairs may be wisely postponed for walking.

There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.

Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.

...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!

That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative may be first-rate, and probably is if he does not approve of it.