May Quotes
On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).
I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.
We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.
Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend
Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge
The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.
And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.
While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool.
As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences".
No matter how we may single out a complex from nature...its theoretical treatment will never prove to be ultimately conclusive... I believe that this process of deepening of theory has no limits.
Flair-a primitive kind of style-may be innate, but I think knowledgeable taste is learned, the result of travel, experience, living, education.
When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in public service," you know you should flee.
No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.
No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others
We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us
Access to information and freedom of access to it may seem like a fundamental right but there are many people who think, rightly or wrongly, it is for your own good that it is hidden.
Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me; Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude... I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
We love but while we may; And therefore is my love so large for thee, Seeing it is not bounded save by love.
Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.
Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the 19th century.
In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
I have noticed that after a time of deep sorrow the greatest comfort may come from a person you do not know well.
The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.
I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.
Some people have made the argument, well, Donald Trump is bad, but Hillary Clinton may be worse, or there's really no difference. That's insane. That's completely insane.
Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.
A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism.
Now my wife may think she's locked me out of the kitchen but MacGyver's not my patron saint for nothing.
Just as a father feels it is all ending and his children are off to start their own families, a new role begins. In midlife, Dad may experience his second "fatherhood" as a grandparent.
Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly.
If every time the blood is poured out it is poured out for the remission of sins, I ought to receive it always, that my sins may always be forgiven me.
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.