May Quotes - Page 288

I've learned to write the truth. But to do that, I had to figure out what the truth was-and I had to realize that the truth isn't always the same for everyone. I had to realize that my truth may not be the same as your truth.

You may be sure that in this new international system, the American citizen will count for precious little.

This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.

Care may acquire wealth, which, when acquired, care must guard and worry about.

Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.

A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined.

You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke.

And, anyway, no matter how much you may behave like the deaf adder of Scripture which, as you are doubtless aware, the more one piped, the less it danced, or words to that effect, I shall carry on as planned.

I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make a modern poet. Be poignant, man, be poignant!

This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.

Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.

A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which, although strongly felt at the time, may be transitory. A letter captures the mood of the moment. The transitory becomes immutably fixed, part of the evidence for the prosecution or the defence.

Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.

We stand separate from the world because of our gifts. Never forget that, because you may be sure the world never will.

Love and peace to everyone. May your God go with you.

He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.

If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.

She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.

Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.

Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.

May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends. [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares.]

That you may be beloved, be amiable.

They come to see, they come that they themselves may be seen. [Lat., Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipse.]

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.