May Quotes
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Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.
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I'll just let time happen. I don't have to articulate what may be or what may not be. I don't even do that to myself.
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It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm.
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For sure, there are times when one may have no choice but to go to war, but it is never something to rush to or accept without exploring every other available option.
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There are many reasons our prayers may lack power. Sometimes they become routine. Our prayers become hollow when we say similar words in similar ways over and over so often that the words become more of a recitation than a communication.
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No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.
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While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in wait, and that the more intelligent an historian is, the more tentative and self-scrutinizing the tone.
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It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.
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When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.' I wouldn't have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn't a clever man.
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Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer.
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The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be unearthly, but they are not for us.
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The invectives against capital in the hands of those who have it are double-faced, and when turned about are nothing but demands for capital in the hands of those who have it not, in order that they may do with it just what those who have it now are doing with it.
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Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness;
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Any representation of a god is ultimately a lie, Silk explained. It may be a convenient lie, and it may even be a reverent one; but it's ultimately false. ... Neither image would be more nearly true than the other, or more true than any other-merely more appropriate.
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Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.
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I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.
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You may be in a medical or engineering college, but not all will stand first in class. It depends on who studies the most.
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I think a 'no' vote is giving the victor, whoever that may be, the win without your participation.
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I am retiring. I have a mission, and it is coming to an end … France may still one day need an image that is pure. She must be left this image. If Joan of Arc had married, she would no longer have been Joan of Arc.
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Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.
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It's just weird that out of nowhere God said, May the three best-looking guys in Hollywood have babies - Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and me. It was bizarre that God said, I want to make the planet more beautiful, and I got the call.
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The thing is, however strange it may seem, that the interests of the United States and of the Russian Federation do coincide sometimes.
