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The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything.
When all feels calm and prices surge, the markets may feel safe; but, in fact, they are dangerous because few investors are focusing on risk.
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy
A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself.
The words in this book are all phooey. When you say them, your lips will make slips and back flips and your tongue may end up in Saint Looey!
Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it.
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there.
I would rather die then try to live without you”, “May you always love me and want me but never have me”, “May you never love anyone but me”.
If I have an idea in my head, within no time it's into the computer, it may take more time to make it sound right, but that's the only issue.
American democracy and the Soviet system may peacefully exist side by side and compete with each other. But one cannot evolve into the other.
As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.
So you may look lightly upon a Scripture and see nothing; meditate often upon it, and there you shall see a light, like the light of the sun.
Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of literature as we know it.
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are.
Life may be miraculous in its unlikelihood in the universe, but it would be a fallacy to suggest that its rareness makes it inextinguishable.
Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,-disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.
Age is how you feel. If you take care of yourself, you'll be able to do the same things. You may not do it as often. But you can still do it.
I see my poems as interlinked. No poem gives an answer. It may offer other questions, it may instigate other questions that then become poems.
All people may not always know those who are not actually good, but they sooner or later get to know all those who are always relatively good.
Throughout the infinite, the forces are in a perfect balance, and hence the energy of a single thought may determine the motion of a universe.
Wander at will, Day after day,-- Wander away, Wandering still-- Soul that canst soar! Body may slumber: Body shall cumber Soul-flight no more.
It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.
Thoughts take up no room. When they are right, they afford a portable pleasure, which one may travel with, without any trouble or encumbrance.
Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word.
Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.
Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive.
While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
My definition of likeable may be different from other people's. That's not traditional likeable. Sympathy is a different thing [to define it].
Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
Though we may not necessarily forfeit our lives in service to our God, we can certainly demonstrate our love for Him by how well we serve Him.
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification.
Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience.
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.
While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.
A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.
I'd love to do a live record, I'd love to do an acoustic record, I'm already thinking about what I may want to do with the next studio record.
May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each kindly thing, forgetting what might sting.
The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.
Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.
Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.
Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.
A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.
We may run into Kevin,” Lucy said gloomily. “She’s hoping to run into Kevin,” Zoë assured her. Justine smiled grimly. “Preferably with my car.