May Quotes
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Some people may have their doubts about me. But I feel like there's no shot too hard for me to take.
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When all capital, all production, all exchange have been brought together in the hands of the nation, private property will disappear of its own accord, money will become superfluous, and production will so expand and man so change that society will be able to slough off whatever of its old economic habits may remain.
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Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.
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Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctioned by its justice and sustained by a virtuous people.
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It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.
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The most effective step that may be taken to increase the production of these crops is to enlarge the acreage devoted to them in the regions where they are grown habitually.
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'Up in the Air' may be a glossy production sprinkled with laughter and sex, but it captures the distinctive topography of our Great Recession as vividly as a far more dour Hollywood product of 70 years ago, 'The Grapes of Wrath,' did the vastly different landscape of the Great Depression.
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People everywhere have the same needs and values. They need a place to live and a job. Beyond that, they may need to sell stuff or get a mate.
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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.
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When you get to all right, take a good look around and get used to it, because that may be as far as you're gonna go.
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Sticks and stones may break me, but the words you said just tore my heart in two.
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I have always taken the view that sometimes war may be justified, as police action can be justified, to protect the weak and vulnerable (a major preoccupation in scripture). But this is an old and difficult question and very wise people take different views.
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Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives.
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We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may 'conquer' them.
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Because the eternal principle of agency gives us the freedom to choose and think for ourselves, we should become increasingly able to solve problems. We may make the occasional mistake, but as long as we are following gospel principles and guidelines, we can learn from those mistakes and become more understanding of others and more effective in serving them.
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The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although-to the more imaginative at least-a slight dampness at the bottom of a carton, or an obscure code printed along a computer cable, may hint at processes of manufacture and transport nobler and more mysterious, more worthy of wonder and study, than the very goods themselves.
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You may come and go, but the real test is to see how long one can manage to stay in the game.
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Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.
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My court skills may have atrophied.
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The spirit of Revolution should always permeate the soul of humanity, so that the reactionary forces may not accumulate to check its eternal onward march
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Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.
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Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
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One may aspire to succeed Chairman Greenspan but it will not be possible to replace him.
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Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
