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You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.
I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.
Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.
It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
That's probably good, all things being equal, for emerging markets, not bad, even though it may not be great for all their currencies.
We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not conservation - that interests us.
I glared at him. "I may not die now... but I'm going to die sometime. Every minute of the day, I get closer. And I'm going to get old.
The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
Finally it may be said that the temple endowment is not secret. All who meet the requirements for entrance to the temple may enjoy it.
I always remember that whatever I have done in the past or may do in the future, Duke University is responsible in one way or another.
And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.
Sometimes we are saddened by the weight of our sins. May we not be discouraged. Christ has come to lift this burden and give us peace.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.
You may fail to shine in the opinion of others, both in our conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior to them.
There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.
God is a sure paymaster. He may not pay at the end of every week, or month, or year, but I charge you remember that He pays in the end.
Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone.
A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem will unravel from that catalyst.
Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.
If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement.
The pleasure and value of every walk or journey we take may be doubled to us by carefully noting down the impressions it makes upon us.
This is the risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may withhold nothing of himself.
Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage.
Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.
I think that the more people go through their own personal initiations, the less collective destruction may be unleashed on the planet.
It's perfectly O.K. to not be completely predictable. I am a person, and I have individual opinions that may not line up ideologically.
No theory of my own will ever stand in the way of my executing, in good faith, any order I may receive from those in authority over me.
The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits.
That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor
That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't
We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over the passage of time, but that's the implacable judgment of feeling.
To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
Parking at a garage is like going to a prostitute. Why pay for it when you can apply yourself, and then may be you can get it for free.
It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right
Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.
Under Syrian law, a journalist is not allowed to report on military matters. This may be wrong or right, but that's just the way it is.
Anything we do to fight misery and ignorance and poverty, no matter how imperfect it may be, is still better than doing nothing at all.
Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again.
Let the winds blow! a fiercer gale Is wild within me! what may quell That sullen tempest? I must sail Whither, O whither, who can tell!