May Quotes

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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly… — Andrew Carnegie
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of… — Andrew Carnegie
You can't please everyone. When you're too focused on living up to other people's standards, you aren't spending enough time raising your own. Some people… — Kris Carr
While I may never be in remission from cancer, I am currently in remission from an unhealthy relationship to food. — Kris Carr
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a… — John le Carre
May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world. — Jonathan Carroll
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in… — Raymond Chandler
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how… — Jimmy Carter
From a little spark may burst a flame. — Dante Alighieri
I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the… — Giacomo Casanova
For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be:… — Giacomo Casanova
Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important… — Bruce Catton
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. — Miguel de Cervantes
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. — Miguel de Cervantes
Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same… — Miguel de Cervantes
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. — Oswald Chambers
Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth. — Nicolas Chamfort
He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far… — Chanakya

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