May Quotes - Page 76

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.

People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that they themselves are poor.

I urge all who have not yet received these greatest of all blessings within the walls of the temple to do whatever may be necessary to qualify to receive them.

The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.

Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.

Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.

Reincarnation, at least as I conceive it, does not nullify what we know about evolution and genetics. It suggests, however, that there may be two streams of evolution -- the biological one and a personal one -- and that during terrestrial lives these streams may interact.

I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.

It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second one

Whatever may be the distribution of uncertainty among economists, the public only gets to hear from those who have certain opinions.

Even if I should never see a native converted, God may design by my patience and continuance in the Word to encourage future missionaries.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.

Our teaching may contain nothing impious, nothing diluted.

It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.

God is pleased continually to vary His mode of dealing with us, in order that we may not be tempted to trust in donors, or in circumstances, but in Him alone, and to keep our eye fixed upon Him.

For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.

Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.

Your choices of action may be limited, but your choices of thought are not.

I would say that if something has an aesthetic value and it is pleasing to watch or to wear, it may in fact have nothing to do with status symbol. You just like to wear it.

For an act may be wrong judged purely by itself, but when the motive that prompted the act is understood, it is construed differently. I lay it down as an axiom, that only that is criminal in the sight of God where crime is meditated.

Let the good service of well-deservers be never rewarded with loss. Let their thanks be such as may encourage more strivers for the like.

In the wake of the Cultural Revolution and now of the recession I observe a mounting pressure to co-operate and to promote "teamwork." For its anti-individualistic streak, such a drive is of course highly suspect; some people may not be so sensitive to it, but having seen the Hitlerjugend in action suffices for the rest of your life to be very wary of "team spirit." Very.

From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires.