May Quotes - Page 297

The discipline of the Old Testament may be summed up as a discipline teaching us to abhor and flee from sin; the discipline of the New Testament, as a discipline teaching us to die to it.

I suppose it's useful in designating writing that tends to come from personal experience, work that delineates an "I," but it's a loose lasso, one which may rope certain poems by one poet and not others.

You always question people's intentions. That may be a combination of having money, having fame, and being a little older.

If you're not intimidated or maybe a little weary of taking on a role, then it may not be challenging enough and it may not be worth doing.

In principle, there’s nothing wrong with the concept of an infographic. What concerns me is the types of things that people are doing with them. They get far off topic, or the fact checking is really poor. The infographic may be neat, but if the information it’s based on is simply wrong, then it’s misleading people.

The nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning.

Literature may be false, but it is not trivial.

I may forget my dignity, but you may not.

Aphorisms may equivocate, but they must not wobble.

The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.

Laughter and tears may not persuade, but they cannot be refuted.

Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.

God may be a human creation, but He goes His way, not ours.

The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.

Studying the past may suggest new ways of going wrong.

We're renting the space that we call Earth, so we may as well just go for it.

I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.

It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

It is clearly absurd that it should be possible for a woman to qualify as a saint with direct access to the Almighty, while she may not qualify as a curate.

The UN may not be very effective but I am a fan of the idea of the United Nations. I have been there, I know the problems. To parody Winston Churchill: It is the worst system, except we don't have any other.

Old men make wars that young men may die.

Some people say that beauty is a curse. It may be true, but I'm sure I should not have at all minded being cursed a little.