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I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs.
You can talk film theory till you're blue in the face, but in the end, the thing that may haunt you most about a movie is a pair of eyes.
A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.
You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
And if no Lethe flows beneath your casement, And when ten years have not brought full effacement, Philosophy was wrong, and you may meet.
The new year has begun for us. / Now must God grant us with love / That we may be able so to begin it / That it may be of value for Love.
A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.
I think that when one is dead one should be a little bit bolder, so that the rest of us may have some record of how things actually were.
A word of advice, if I may? Explosions are an excellent way to kill the undead. But you should probably take a few steps back first, kid.
Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame.
The quality of events surrounding you in any given moment in time may be reflecting specific beliefs that you hold in that moment of time.
I'm actually very scared of sharks. I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was young, which may not have been compatible with that fear.
First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.
In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded.
By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.
Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.
Cardiff Stadium was a warm up for the 3 Hyde Park shows. James Brown opened. And I think it may be the only time we played Mini Epic live.
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.
Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme, Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay; Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime, For oh, it is not always May!
Eternally repeating that cycle of death and rebirth, an existence such as this... truly, mine is what may be called a 'perfect existence'!
You may be a dreadful failure. Christ is a divine success. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
One of the greatest threats to mankind today is that the world may be choked by an explosively pervading but well camouflaged bureaucracy.
A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to carry you into another world.
On the road again, goin' places that I've never been. Seein' things that I may never see again, and I can't wait to get on the road again.
Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.
A young man should ask himself not if it is his duty to go to the heathen, but if he may dare stay at home. The command is so plain: “Go.”
The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.
The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.
No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.
The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out your appendix.
A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.
As accidental as my life may be, or as that random humor is, which governs it, I know nothing, after all, so real or substantial as myself
How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.
If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask.
I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant
The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.
Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion.
The position of the Americans is quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one.
The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions.
If you don't tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth about your own life, someone may claim the right to tell it for you.
Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.
Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.
You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.
There is never a Jewish community without its scholars, but where Jews may not be both intellectuals and Jews, they prefer to remain Jews.
He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.