A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.
You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it’s really made up of stories. When you sit with an individual that’s been here, you can give quantitative data a qualitative overlay.
Striving for success is healthy – but believing you need to succeed the first time around may backfire. Mentally strong people believe failure is part of the process toward a long journey to success. By viewing failure as a temporary setback, they’re able to bounce back and move forward with ease.
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.
Don’t ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don’t mean they’re not an important person. You just don’t ever know who you’re gonna meet in life. So that’s why I look at everybody as equal. Can’t just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.
Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.
No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you’ll find the positive side of things.
Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.
You may have the universe if I may have Italy.
When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.
Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Anything I’ve done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.
When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things may seem too wonderful for us to resist, too exciting not to catch at, if we do not know that they are but phases of what has been before and withal ruinous, deceitful, and sordid.
The quickest way may not necessarily be the best.
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.
In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way – an honorable way – in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.
Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
It gets better: there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. It may take one day, it may take ten years. But one day, you will find happiness if you manifest it. Put that energy out, and it’ll come back.
Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.
Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
May we have communion with God in the secret of our hearts, and find Him to be to us as a little sanctuary.
There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.
Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.
Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us – loneliness is one of them.
You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who’s Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.
People with HIV and AIDS are nothing to be afraid of. They are people just like every single one of us, and each has a story to tell. These people should be helped, embraced, and not dismissed. We need to open our hearts and our minds to them, and we just may learn we’re pretty much all the same.
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment from the outside looking in.
Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.
What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.
I may have a feather duster down my pants.
Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
