May Quotes - Page 73

The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.

Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'

You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears.

If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!

I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

There is always a point at which the terrorist ceases to manipulate the media gestalt. A point at which the violence may well escalate, but beyond which the terrorist has become symptomatic of the media gestalt itself. Terrorism as we ordinarily understand it is innately media-related.

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.

I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right.

I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for that which is right will become popular, and that which is wrong, though by mistake it may obtain the cry or fashion of the day, will soon lose the power of delusion, and sink into disesteem.

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends upon what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.

Some sigh for this and that; My wishes don't go far; The world may wag at will, So I have my cigar.

Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended

Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain.

Amid the turmoil and tumult of battle, there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all.

I may not be a human, but I am a man.

Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path.

Scientific discovery may not be better than sex, but the satisfaction lasts longer.

It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom.

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

Investing today may well be harder than it has been at any time in our three decades of existence.

We may not live in the past, but the past lives in us.

Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.