19 May Quotes
The World requires at least ten years to understand a new idea, however important or simple it may be.
They may never say it, but your parents really are proud of you when you follow your heart and chase your dreams.
The Lord has a plan. We always think the plans are A, B, C and D, and everything is going to be perfect for us and it may not be that way, but it's still His plan.
The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.
In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.
May the Lord protect me as the world gets hectic. My voice projected, my life reflected.
As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.
You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.
May the strength of Ares and wisdom of Athena see you through. (Eros) And may Hades roast your hoary soul. (Julian)
That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.
A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.
We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become.
The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.
Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.
To the world you may be just one person but to one person you may be the world The road to finding 'the one' is paved with a bit of promiscuity.
The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.
There may be no trumpet sound or loud applause when we make a right decision, just a calm sense of resolution and peace.
Be brave and upright that God may love thee; speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death; safeguard the helpless and do no wrong. That is your oath.
Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.
A believer may pass through much affliction, and yet secure very little blessing from it all. Abiding in Christ is the secret of securing all that the Father meant the chastisement to bring us.
you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing
You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
Cartels have spread and will spread as long as the world lacks an effective mechanism by which balanced expansion may be achieved without a resulting disruption of prices.
Unbelievable as it may seem, one-third of all vegetables consumed in the United States come from just three sources: french fries, potato chips, and iceberg lettuce.
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.
We live in a society where we may have differences, of course, but we learn to celebrate these differences.
The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants.
Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.