May Quotes - Page 362

We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake.

The material world may be nothing but illusion.

There's always something extremely personal in the songs, but I may change the point of view from what I actually experienced.

The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.

I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at

Let the light be called Day so that men may grow corn or take busses.

May the arm of the first member of Congress, who proposes a national religion, drop powerless from his shoulder; his tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth and all the people say amen.

Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall where they may.

Remember, if you sit at your desk for 15 or 20 years, every day, not counting weekends, it changes you. It just does. It may not improve your temper, but it fixes something else. It makes you more free.

I hope lots of people will join the solidarity march on May 7th and I hope things will change.

[Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be.

We may be reaching the end of the liberal world order.

I try to be realistic and pragmatic. I have a lot of hope for humanity as a species, but obviously as individuals we can be extremely flawed. We may have to go through some very terrible times in the near future, even if we ultimately survive as Homo sapiens.

Ask any woman how she makes it through the day, and she may mention her calendar, her to-do lists, her babysitter. But if you push her on how she really makes it through her day, she will mention her girlfriends.

It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn't see coming and may have wandered down by mistake. The older we get the more willing we are to follow those, to surprise ourselves.

We may think all religions beneficial, and believe of one alone that it is true.

a woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.

Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.

A young woman, newly wed, may find herself in the delightful position of wanting to do nothing without the company of her darling husband. She may indeed discover that she spends all her waking hours with her fellow to the exclusion of every other friend or family member. This is understandable, but wholly unacceptable, to society.

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.

We don't know yet if it was the raw fish. We may never know the cause.

God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.

It may look perfect, but that's one thing I have learned about life is that it isn't always what it looks.

Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be expected to produce uniformity of effect.

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.