May Quotes - Page 299

My friendship with the Hitch has always been perfectly cloudless. It is a love whose month is ever May.

Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.

I commend you, Postumus, for kissing me with only half your lip; you may, however, if you please, withhold even the half of this half. Are you inclined to grant me a boon still greater, and even inexpressible? Keep this whole half entirely to yourself, Postumus.

I have set a standard, and I'm going to stick to the standard. I may have been able to grow faster and maybe my business could have been bigger, but because I really feel very serious about my subject, I really want to be hands-on.

The past ... is a dim avenue down which we may walk and find the diverging paths of terror and beauty and passion.

I want you to notice is that-right here, right now-you’re okay. You may be in pain, you may be in fear, you may be in grief. But you’re here, you’re surviving; this moment is okay.

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

However impressed we may be with NVC concepts, it is only through practice and application that our lives are transformed.

If people want change, then they will find a way to get that change. So, whatever technology they may or may not have used was neither a necessary nor sufficient case for getting to the outcome that they got to, but having people who wanted change was.

If you live in an area where there is not a good school, the internet may be the best way to get access to a lot of education material. The same is true if there is not a good doctor - the internet may be the best way to get access to health.

Never waste a lie; you never know when you may need it.

You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.

What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.

History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.

We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.

Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. Sometimes we are too close to the scene, to see clearly. We "know" ourselves so well that we cannot see how we are perceived by others. Our opinion of ourselves is only "one" opinion and it may not be the truth.

Donald Trump is sounding the same theme he has sounded since May or June of 2015.

If you're on the other side from me, you're not simply wrong or ill-informed or mistaken. We don't share the same country, the same values. You may not be the same kind of an American I am.

Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they are, they will be drawn out wholly in accordance with character.

A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his thoughts, however commonplace they may be, exquisitely. That is the one and only difference between the poet and everybody else.

I cannot personally imagine any U.S. president normalizing relations with him [Fidel Castro], as opposed to his brother, but I may prove wrong on this score.

Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.

Sometimes my doubt seems intuitive, but most likely it derives from an implausibility or a logical problem I may at first find difficult to identify and articulate. It is interesting to me to work through questions that arise in this way.

Anyone I may have used should feel happy that they even had a use. It's better than being useless.