May Quotes - Page 292

I'm always interested in debunking myths if they are untrue. But it's also important to identify myths and how they function, what value they may have.

You may be an idiot but I don't think you're a fool.

There can be...no power...to disclose...the secrets that may be buried with a human heart. The heart, making itself guilty of such secrets, must perforce hold them until the day when all hidden things be revealed.

The traveller knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude.

Who can tell where happiness may come, or where, though an expected guest, it may never show its face?

Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!

A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation-may that be? Why, the degenerate fellow might as well have been a fiddler!

A human spirit may find no insufficiency of food fit for it, even in the Custom House.

Tis reason's part To govern and to guard the heart, To lull the wayward soul to rest, When hopes and fears distract the breast; Reason may calm this doubtful strife, And steer thy bark through various life.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

Even on the cable network MSNBC, some of the strongest proponents of [Barack] Obama are now beginning to question, if I may use their words, their "deity."

[John] McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious.

[People] felt good even though they didn't really know much about [Barack Obama] and may have had some doubts.

Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will laugh at their beliefs in the (disappointingly near) future.

Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.

The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning.

Bravery is fearlessness-the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger.

There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass.

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.

Today's worries may become tomorrow's priceless experiences.

If you pray for a thing, but have fear as you pray, that you may not receive it, or that your prayer will not be acted upon by Infinite Intelligence, your prayer will have been in vain.

I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them.

A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.

Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.

Creation lives alone in a small temple. Only one may worship at a time.