May Quotes
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This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is required of us so that the face of the earth may be renewed.
Edith Stein
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A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.
David Mamet
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It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
Anne Tyler
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Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
James Harvey Robinson
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The Lord may not come when you want Him, but he's always going to be there on time.
Louis Gossett, Jr.
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There are two sides, at least, to most political questions, and a politician's impulse may be to believe that the same holds true for science. Certainly, there are disputes in science. But on the question of climate change, the divide is stark.
Christine Todd Whitman
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Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.
Saint Augustine
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I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.
Nellie McKay
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God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'
Benjamin Franklin
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Women consume, and they must be directed what to consume, or they may identify you as lunch.
John Patrick Shanley
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I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own instincts.
Ben Affleck
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
Jean Baudrillard
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I don't believe in the concept of working out rigorously to pump muscles. It may be effective, but when you stop working out, it comes back to square one.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
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Conservatives shouldn't count on the Supreme Court to do our work for us on Obamacare. The Court may rule as it should, and strike down the mandate. But it may not. And even if it does, the future of health care in America - and for that matter, the future of limited government - depends ultimately on the verdict of the American people.
Bill Kristol
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If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.
Olivia Wilde
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Strenuously competitive parents may indeed produce high-achieving grownups, but it’s in the nature of things that high-achieving adults are likely to become frustrated and embittered old people, once the rug is pulled out from under their occupation.
Adam Gopnik
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The route may, say, go across the field for 22 yards. I know I have to be there, but how I get there is where they allow me to be creative.
Doug Baldwin
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree-and there will be one.
Aldo Leopold
