May Quotes - Page 83

The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk, Is always happy, reign whoever may, And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.

Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.

You have a chance to save lives! If you don't take it, you may regret it!

Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.

Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.

When you’re engaged in what you love to do, it’s like driving in the fast lane. Time flies by and more roads open up to you, alternate routes you may not have even known existed.

Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be.

Arms is a profession that, if its principles are adhered to for success, requires an officer do what he fears may be wrong, and yet, according to military experience, must be done, if success is to be attained.

Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.

Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.

When I was younger there was something in me. I had passion. I may not have known what I was going to do with that passion, but there was something-and I still feel it. It's this little engine that roars inside of me and I just want to keep going and going.

I may be a douche to some people, but I actually do run companies.

It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye; that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.

The fact would seem to be, if in my situation one may speak of facts, not only that I shall have to speak of things of which I cannot speak, but also, which is even more interesting, but also that I, which is if possible even more interesting, that I shall have to, I forget, no matter. And at the same time I am obliged to speak. I shall never be silent. Never.

It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are notnecessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.

Wherever you may go, the least plant may bring you clear remembrance of the Creator.

He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.

Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.

In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics.

We laugh, that we may not cry.

A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.