May Quotes - Page 334

We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for what we do, we have hell anyway.

We all hope that TV will bring something added to the book - not just an audience - it will bring an interpretation and skills that you may not have as a writer.

I think my own bias is that there may be something wrong with the timing and the connectivity between regions rather than pointing to one particular spot in the brain.

Failure may be just a step toward your eventual goal.

I am relieved. May I now have the truth?

I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!

Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!

Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death

Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable; he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate... Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis.

In the Vatican, if you don't get something new done quickly you may not get it done at all.

I only wish, while I am a servant of the public, to know the will of my masters, that I may govern my self accordingly.

In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

Facts may speak for themselves.

We have to be vigilant about how the Trump administration may try to divide us from each other.

He who has read Kafka's Metamorphosis and can look into his mirror unflinching may technically be able to read print, but is illiterate in the only sense that matters.

I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so.

Stay alert. The big moral crossroads in your life may not come labeled as such.

The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

At best, the true philosopher can fulfil his mission very imperfectly, which is to pilot himself, or at most a few voluntary companions who may find themselves in the same boat.

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.

By "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or to thought.... This object of pure sense or pure thought, with no belief superadded, an object inwardly complete and individual, but without external relations or physical status, is what I call an essence.

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!

One never knows how much a family may grow; and when a hive is too full, and it is necessary to form a new swarm, each one thinks of carrying away his own honey.