I Quotes
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“It may at first appear strange, but I believe it is true, that I cannot by means of money raise a poor man and enable him to live much better than he did before, without proportionably depressing others in the same class.”
Source: Population: The First Essay
“It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.”
“It may be a blessing in disguise...Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. Haitians were originally under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon the third, or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, we will serve you if you will get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said, okay it's a deal. Ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the other.”
“It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent bootleg? Did you ever think of that? Now all those street-corner copies are permanently defiled by your so-called 'emergency.' Don't be so damn selfish.”
“It may be a cat, a bird, a ferret, or a guinea pig, but the chances are high that when someone close to you dies, a pet will be there to pick up the slack. Pets devour the loneliness. They give us purpose, responsibility, a reason for getting up in the morning, and a reason to look to the future. They ground us, help us escape the grief, make us laugh, and take full advantage of our weakness by exploiting our furniture, our beds, and our refrigerator. We wouldn't have it any other way. Pets are our seat belts on the emotional roller coaster of life--they can be trusted, they keep us safe, and they sure do smooth out the ride.”
Source: Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing, and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon
“It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons.”
Source: The Story of a Marriage: A Novel
“It may be a cliché, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.”
“It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.”
“It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.”
“It may be a good thing to copy reality; but to invent reality is much, much better.”
“It may be a hundred-year battle to turn around our industries and finally get everyone living on sustainable energy with technology that can keep our lives comfortable. If that's the case, the first 20 years of the shift have actually done a lot to support that. But there's still a long way to go, and judging by the state of the environment, we don't have that kind of time.”
“It may be a lot more personally rewarding to focus on the marvelous new equipment, but the focus should be on customers - attracting them, courting them, rewarding them, understanding them and binding them to you.”
“It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women.”
“It may be a mere patriotic bias, though I do not think so, but it seems to me that the English aristocracy is not only the type, but is the crown and flower of all actual aristocracies; it has all the oligarchical virtues as well as all the defects. It is casual, it is kind, it is courageous in obvious matters; but it has one great merit that overlaps even these. The great and very obvious merit of the English aristocracy is that nobody could possibly take it seriously.”
“It may be a mistake to say this, but I know my limitations as an actor and I know what I can and can not do. Robert De Niro can do everything. I can't. A 'Highlander' movie is basically my thing. What I'm attempting to do is develop my ability as an actor and try to be the best I can be in the fantasy/action genre.”
“It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy”
Source: History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes
“It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.”
Source: Descent Into Hell
“It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a great many devoted art lovers to rout.”
Source: The Shape of Content
“It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success.”
“It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even necessary actions undertaken by people of faith. Faithful actions, whether they are marked by success or they end in failure, are actions that are compelled by goodness.”
“It may be a product of me being raised in episcopal church, but I have a love for ritual and theater and the significance of doing the exact same thing over and over. So I really love knowing every little thing I'm going to do during a show.”
“It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”
Source: The federalist papers
“It may be a secret sin on earth, but it is open scandal in heaven.”
Source: Major Bible Themes: Present Forty-Nine Vital Doctrines of the Scriptures, Abbreviated and Simplified for Popular Use, Including Suggestive Questions on Each Chapter; with Topical and Textual Indeces.
“It may be a stone you have never seen before or a root with a special shape that has meaning for you. You must learn to understand with your heart and mind, not your eyes and ears, then you will know.”
Source: The Clan of the Cave Bear
“It may be a tough world, but its a magical world;
Where a mere sunset will make you smile....
Amidst all the hardships,
When the life you want to live seems a strange place,
Be the first to chart this new territory;
And leave a clear path for others to follow,
They will follow.........
You do not have to fell the pressure to lead....
You merely followed the horizon where the sun set,
which became a beautiful sunrise...
Your Sunrise.....”
“It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.”
Source: Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart
“It may be a very little thing for you to say to a young man the few words that turn him from the way of ruin, and win him back to life and hope. It may be a very little thing to you; but it is every thing to the young man.”
“It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Faraday
“It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.”
“It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole people, beyond any example in the world.”
Source: Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches
“It may be, after all," said the Student Anselmus to himself, "that the superfine stomachic liqueur, which I took somewhat freely in Monsieur Conradi's, might really be the cause of all these shocking phantasms, which tortured me so at Archivarius Lindhorst's door.”
Source: Der goldne Topf
“It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heart’s choice.”
Source: Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III
“It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom.”
Source: Epicurean Simplicity
“It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.”
“It may be annoying, but the rash of hijackings by Connecticut WASP girls surely explains the time-consuming - but still somehow completely useless - examination of my personal effects. We all have to make sacrifices for airline safety.”
“It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about the normal law since mathematicians think it is a law of nature whereas physicists are convinced that it is a mathematical theorem.”
Source: Statistical Independence in Probability, Analysis, and Number Theory
“It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.”
Source: The Essential Aristotle
“It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.”
Source: Home: Vintage Minis
“It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like a molecule in a cloud of molecules-it is a unique population.”
“It may be asked, why there cannot be one and the same path for all? Because He reveals Himself in infinite ways and forms - verily, The One is all of them.”
“It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters.”
“It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.”
Source: A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Comfort Edition)
“It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.”
Source: God in the Dock
“It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works.”
“It may be broadly stated that.....of all animals kept for the recreation of mankind the horse is alone capable of exciting a passion that shall be absolutely hopeless.”
“It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“It may be changing, but still it's the one place, that total control of an institution, that African Americans have. So sometimes, you know, you'll hear the statement of African Americans saying, "I have to work with whites.”
“It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.”
“It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original.”
Source: Autobiography and Selected Letters