May Quotes - Page 55

Individuals are certainly interested, at times, in having their own way, and their own way may go contrary to the ways of others. But they are also interested, and chiefly interested upon the whole, in entering into the activities of others and taking part in conjoint and cooperative doings. Otherwise, no such thing as a community would be possible.

All that glitters may not be gold, but at least it contains free electrons.

If you have to put on a haz-mat suit to visit a farm, you may not want to eat what comes from it.

The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice.

For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.

Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.

Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. "Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you." This will most certainly oblige us to treat all mankind with the utmost civility and respect, there being nothing that we desire more than to be treated so by them.

A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much good, and almost anything he may say may do a great deal of harm. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. He is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.

People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them. They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time

A husband may forget where he went on his honeymoon, but he never forgets why.

All I can do is assess the value from Manchester United perspective. Whatever Chelsea do, they may have a different criteria, and different financial assets.

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Even though I only just found out that I was adopted, God has always known, and he has always loved me. And since that has never changed, therefore nothing has essentially changed. I may not be who I thought I was, but I still am who he says I am. I am more. I am loved. I am his.

Looks alone won’t get you that far. It may get you in the door, but there’s always somebody younger, somebody prettier. You have to rely on something else.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

I may be personable, but I assure you I am a lion.

All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the things in him that are part of the life never die, although the form be broken.

A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will never have the irrational power of the photograph to bear away our faith.