I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
This land may be profitable to those that will adventure it.
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us – of becoming happy – is not attainable: yet we may not – nay, cannot – give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.
O’ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.
You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that’s your body.
Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright.
Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.
The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
Surround yourself with smart, dedicated people – to build something isn’t a one-man show. It’s more important to have smart people who really believe in what you’re doing than really experienced people who may not share your dream.
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, – light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
May Allah guide us to the good of the kingdom of Bahrain and its loyal people.
We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.
Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a ‘physics’ or ‘anatomy’ of power, a technology.
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.
On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops.
We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
May these vows and this marriage be blessed.
However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.
Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It enables the diabetic to burn sufficient carbohydrates so that proteins and fats may be added to the diet in sufficient quantities to provide energy for the economic burdens of life.
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence – and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.
Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
You may be a redneck if… you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can’t help but smile on it.
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
My goal is to give girls and boys a different idea of expression. It’s not always about looking pretty or cute. It’s about expressing yourself however that may be, even if that’s being silly or goofy or weird.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.
Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery.
Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it’s easy to thwart.
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.
