May Quotes - Page 324

Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.

James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them.

Women manage, quite brilliantly, on the whole, and to stunning and unforeseeable effect, to survive and surmount being defined by others. They dismiss the definition, however dangerous or wounding it may be-- or even, sometimes, find a way to utilize it.

Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so rare.

Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened.

Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.

Tomorrow exists even though I may not exist in it.

Diversity is power on the Web. Big sites may be bigger, but smaller sites will keep scoring higher for specialized topics, both in terms of their connections with users and in terms of each visit's commercial value.

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others,thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.

Our actions - and inaction - touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet.

Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland

Every one's abilities may be increased or strengthened by a kind of culture.

May we all co-operate and join this war on pirates.

Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually, we don't like it very much.

The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.

May I take your vein for a moment? I find myself... curiously depleted" Okay, right. Talk about your Johnny-on-the-spots: He locked them in and all but tore off his arm and threw it at her.

American democracy and the Soviet system may peacefully exist side by side and compete with each other. But one cannot evolve into the other.

Tomorrow we may come this way, And take the hidden paths that run Towards the Moon or to the Sun

Touching your cap to the Squire may be damn bad for the Squire, but it's damn good for you.

There may be luck in getting a good job-but there's no luck in keeping it.

If you were blind you would hardly have fallen in love in the first place. But now, do you truly wish to see the beloved in the cold clarity of the visual apparatus? It may be in your better interest to throw a veil over the gaze, so as to keep her alive in her archetypal, goddesslike form.

Are cans constitutionally iffy? Whenever, that is, we say that we can do something, or could do something, or could have done something, is there an if in the offing--suppressed, it may be, but due nevertheless to appear when we set out our sentence in full or when we give an explanation of its meaning?

They may not look dangerous, but if angered [bowtruckles] will gouge out human eyes with their fingers, which, as you can see, are very sharp and not at all desirable near the eyeballs.

From here on in, Harry, I may be as woefully wrong as Humphrey Belcher who believed the time was ripe for a cheese cauldron.