May Quotes - Page 343

[Nuclear war]... may not be desirable.

The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.

I wonder more and more just where I may have come out if I had never seen Harvard Square.

Youth is not rich in time; it may be poor; Part with it as with money, sparing; pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.

You may be a dreadful failure. Christ is a divine success. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

A given order may at any given time fail to represent those values, even work against those values. I think that's the dynamic we're seeing today.

I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.

One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings - meanings which may in fact contradict each other.

Whatever else the Norman Conquest may or may not have done, it made the old haphazard state of legal affairs forever impossible.

It may be that the requirement of a preliminary approval by the Grand Jury, of all accusations of a serious nature, justified the boast that a man was presumed to be innocent until he was 'found' guilty; but that presumption certainly ceased to have practical application, so soon as the Grand Jury had returned a 'true bill'.

I feel that I am doing the minimum amount of damage to other possibilities that may take place in a reader's head.

I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.

That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled his speech, were rather gracious for their propriety than strange for their novelty, and like to serve both for occasions to report and means to remember his argument. Certain sentences of his , somewhat obscure, and as it were presuming upon their capacities will, I fear, make some of them rather admire than commend him. In sum, all is as well as words can make it, and if it please Her Majesty to add deeds, the Bacon may be too hard for the Cook.

It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.

Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again.

I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention.

You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your view of what it's about. The work of art must be judged by how well it succeeds in its intention.

Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.

Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during a dark night in February.

Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.

I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

it may be said of me by Harper & Brothers, that although I reject their proposals, I welcome their advances.