May Quotes - Page 361

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.

I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.

I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

The Iago trance is a state that we've really come to accept as normal, even if we may not feel it to be natural.

However much you may have expressed love through your life, you can always express love more.

Honest error may play prologue to wonders.

I have been extremely proactive in putting myself up for characters that may have been meant to specifically be Caucasian. You bring an interesting angle to the character that isn't written.

May as well leave the door open.

All people may not always know those who are not actually good, but they sooner or later get to know all those who are always relatively good.

A person who is in the elements of his own is often thrown to a situation to be shown all alone; and people who aren’t may be in a position seen by all, but they are often unknown to be utterly lone.

Something may have happened before, and yet this thing that happened just after may be so important that you don't even know about the thing that happened before and when you tell your story to yourself, or to someone else, it's going to be told not on the basis necessarily of the time course, but rather on the basis of how it was valued by you.

I don't like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it.

Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince. "So that I may forget," replied the tippler. "Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him. "Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head. "Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him. "Ashamed of drinking!

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat violent assertion of right.

There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.

It may, indeed, be assumed that a man who loses his temper while he is speaking is endeavouring to speak the truth such as he believes it to be, and again it may be assumed that a man who speaks constantly without losing his temper is not always entitled to the same implicit faith.

No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which the genuinely despairing are treated: for they are apt to get lost in the great mass of pseudo-distress and manipulation, and often their conduct draws less attention precisely because it is less attention-seeking.