May Quotes - Page 322

It may feel like the more you know about depression and the many forms it can take, the more questions you have. That's how I feel.

I think, though, that perspective-awareness may follow from a kind of speaking that also came into my work more recently - the "assay" poems (some labeled that, some not) that engage an abstraction or object from multiple angles.

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes.

What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.

It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.

The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.

... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.

It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart

That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.

When the entire moral energy of an individual goes into the cultivation of personal integrity, we all know how unlovely the result may become; the character is upright, of course, but too coated over with the result of its own endeavor to be attractive.

Our global corporate investment bank competes with Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and a bunch of other banks that are in those businesses. We may have slightly different products or services, but so what? That's always been true in American business.

That's probably good, all things being equal, for emerging markets, not bad, even though it may not be great for all their currencies.

Because of that [Brexit], you're going to have slow growth and, unfortunately, while there may not be huge volatility, there will be volatility.

And so, while perhaps not all God's chilluns got wings, enough have for each of us to hope that we may be among those that have.

For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a moment which he considers a defining point in his life as an activist, he's also set the stage for potential ugliness down the road.

The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits.

Politically speaking, it's always easier to shell out money for a disaster that has already happened, with clearly identifiable victims, than to invest money in protecting against something that may or may not happen in the future.

[Rumors are a] vehicle for anxieties and aspirations that may not be openly expressed.

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.

Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

When you have really solid biology and medical science at the core of an issue, it makes it much easier to identify what potential solutions may be.