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The thing is, however strange it may seem, that the interests of the United States and of the Russian Federation do coincide sometimes.
The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.
He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
Sound is the basis vibration of the universe All those little vortices may get sent going the other way. Sound is really very powerful.
I would never want to vilify somebody who considered abortion murder. I was an illegitimate child myself. I may not have existed today.
Pray that thy last days, and last works may be the best; and that when thou comest to die, thou mayest have nothing else to do but die.
If my dog wants to know why I didn't feed him this morning, he may want to rethink walking out of the room when I'm telling him a joke.
I think a day in your life on which nothing bad happens may be a wonderful day, but it probably isn't going to be the basis of a story.
I think no matter what the occasion may be, you can never go wrong by showing up at the dinner table with a hot plate of fried chicken.
Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.
Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.
The short story ... is the most democratic of all the arts; anyone may tell a story, and if it is an absorbing one someone will listen.
The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.
Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to safeguard.
Your lifestyle - how you live, eat, emote, and think - determines your health. To prevent disease, you may have to change how you live.
A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.
Why should the immediate opportunity set be the only one considered, when tomorrow's may well be considerably more fertile than today's?
There is no perfect solution to depression, nor should there be. And odd as this may sound we should be glad of that. It keeps us human.
Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power.
General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril.
In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state
If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.
We may be delighted to see Israel putting the Arabs in their place, but we have repeatedly condemned their occupation of Arab territory.
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
Talent may get someone off the starting blocks faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it won't count for much
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears.
We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong.
I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my heart forbids me to reverence.
It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
Our good works are like stones cast into the pool of time; though the stones themselves may disappear, their ripples extend to eternity.
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.
Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent.
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.
In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.
You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!
FAITH untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials.
My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.
Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm.
If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.
A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled.
Be brave and celebrate with us your 'perceived flaws,' as society tells us. May we make our flaws famous, and thus redefine the heinous.
May you constantly nourish your testimonies of the gospel that they will be a protection to you against the buffetings of the adversary.
Attachments to older forms of worship may be comfortable, but they may contain elements of falsehood that make them unacceptable to God.
Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.
I have enjoyed a wonderful run in films, so far, and I may, at some point, come back. But it will be in my own time and in my own style.