May Quotes - Page 314

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.

I have tried very hard to find meaning in what I do, but I have found instead a vast and limitless nothingness. I tried to embrace the nothingness, but it slipped through my grasp, and now there is nothing where the nothingness was. This may sound meaningful, but it isn't.

If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.

Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.

You may sell your work, but not your soul.

That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin

It may be a lot more personally rewarding to focus on the marvelous new equipment, but the focus should be on customers - attracting them, courting them, rewarding them, understanding them and binding them to you.

The principle of laissez-faire may be safely trusted to in some things but in many more it is wholly inapplicable; and to appeal to it on all occasions savors more of the policy of a parrot than of a statesman or a philosopher.

Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been found to fail.

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.

America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president.

You may lack will power, but that doesn't mean you can't take a lot of steps to make yourself more productive.

We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.

You may be embarrassed about the way you looked and the wacky clothes you wore when you were young, but normally, at least it's hidden in a box in the attic.

The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.

Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster. . . . The repercussions may be extreme . . . and they may be very long-lasting, even throughout adulthood.

The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.

In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.

A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.

He that hath light within their own breast, may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day.

Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.

When we invest in an asset-rich but low-returning business, time may be working against us.