May Quotes - Page 249

Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.

Every one may know that to will and not to do, when there is opportunity, is in reality not to will; and that to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it. Will, which stops short of action, and love, which does not do the good that is loved, is a mere thought separate from will and love, which vanishes and comes to nothing.

I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.

there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.

It is a religious duty for those who cook to learn how to prepare food in different ways, hygienically, for the table, so that it may be eaten with enjoyment.

I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.

[On sociability in Italy:] You may be a hermit or an innkeeper.

It's one of the things writing students don't understand. They write a first draft and are quite disappointed, or often should be disappointed. They don't understand that they have merely begun, and that they may be merely beginning even in the second or third draft.

Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.

Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and I’m not going to condemn their lifestyle so gratuitously.

The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.

Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

The revolution of ages may bring round the same calamities; but ages may revolve without producing a Tacitus to describe them.

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.

Women who love only women may have a good point.

[W]e are prone to forget that the planet may be measured by man, but not according to man.

Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it may thus more nearly than the novel approach aesthetic and moral truth.

The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it.

Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest.

Oprah [Winfrey] and I share a similar consciousness of spirit that is manifested in what some may call God or simply Spirit but others call it the Godhead manifestation of karmic virtue.

The dog is still in the natural state. And you can easily see that, because you have problems and your dog doesn't. And while your happy moments may be rare, your dog celebrates life continuously.

We may divide characters into flat and round.