May Quotes - Page 315

Thousands of Americans have given their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq upholding their oaths and defending this nation. Chelsea Manning broke her oath and made it more likely that others would join the ranks of her fallen comrades. Her prison sentence may end in a few months' [time], but her dishonor will last forever.

You may have noticed that Senator Obama’s supporters have been saying some pretty nasty things about Western Pennsylvania lately. And you know, I couldn’t agree with them more.

God may have mercy, but we won't.

It is Enterprise which build and improves the world's possessions...If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.

I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.

UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless.

People tell me all the time that my songs help them express things to loved ones that they may not be able to say themselves.

We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.

Agitators and declaimers may heat the blood, but they do not illumine the mind.

The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.

One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.

The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy for the unlearned and may even be aided by a mildly enfeebled intellect. The requirement that there be ability to master difficult models, including ones for which mathematical competence is required, is a highly useful screening device.

Ideas may be superior to vested interest. They are also very often the children of vested interest.

Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.

When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain".

The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-he awoke and found it truth.

Performers may play in the studio, but they need to go out and tour every once in a while to keep their edge, or a performer who is a stranger may be asked to "sit in" on a set.

Apology may be scorned, but it retains its inherent value.

So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.

I can talk about film theory forever and it may sound pretentious or something, but really it's just that I'm fascinated by it.

There may be arrangements to have me retired but I don't know. Things happen that I enjoy doing, and as long as I enjoy doing them I'll go about doing them, I guess.

Life may be miraculous in its unlikelihood in the universe, but it would be a fallacy to suggest that its rareness makes it inextinguishable.

It is difficult, almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing may not be found, if the proper alembic be applied.

A cat may looke on a King.

Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.