May Quotes · Page 67

Augustine says that we may, out of our dead sins, make stepping stones to rise to the heights of perfection. What did…

— James Stalker

A gift of flowers to a woman implies that she is as deliciously desirable as the blossoms themselves; but there may be…

— Eleanor Perenyi

It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add…

— John Dewey

People who have never had an ideal may hope to find one; they are in a better state than the people who…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral…

— Thomas Jefferson

The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written…

— Thomas Jefferson

A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours…

— Holly Black

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a…

— Aristotle

I don't think that developing countries gained from a two-stage process. A single phase summit (which is, after all, a two year…

— David Souter

Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious…

— Ramakrishna

Defeat may be victory in disguise.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do…

— Lady Gaga

Consumers who are thinking of opening one of these no-limit credit cards may want to think how deeply their scores will be…

— Craig Watts

Today you may not be familiar with the happiness habit. But like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Unfortunately, from what I can see from my vantage point as the U.S. Attorney here, illegal insider trading is rampant and may…

— Preet Bharara

Understand who you are and who you want to be, and thereby learn how you may best relate to others.

— Ken Danby

Go deep into meditation. And by meditation I mean awareness, watchfulness, witnessing. It is only through meditation that the inner light begins.…

— Rajneesh

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.

— Isaac Barrow

The greatest good [a man] can do is to cultivate himself in order that he may be of greater use to humanity.

— Marshall Field

“I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content…

— William Ellery Channing

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

— Fanny Burney

I may have my personal political thing, but we never wanted it to stain the show.

— Matt Stone

Waiting is worse than knowing. Grief rends the heart cleanly, that it may begin to heal; waiting shreds the spirit.

— Morgan Llywelyn

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

— George MacDonald