I Quotes
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“It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction.”
Source: The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States
“It may be conjectured that it is cheaper in the long run to lift men up than to hold them down, and that the ballot in their hands is less dangerous to society than a sense of wrong is in their heads.”
Source: Essays, English and American
“It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication of some defect in the government, frequent appeals would in great measure deprive the government of that veneration which time bestows on every thing, and without which perhaps the wisest and freest governments would not possess the requisite stability . . . a constitutional road to the decision of the people ought to be marked out and kept open, for certain great and extraordinary occasions”
“It may be crazy, but I'm the closest thing I have to a voice of reason.”
“It may be desirable to explain, that by the word operation, we mean any process which alters the mutual relation of two or more things, be this relation of what kind it may. This is the most general definition, and would include all subjects in the universe.”
“It may be difficult, but there will be times we need to pick up our brooms and do some spiritual house cleaning. It is through this process that we find our true relationships, our true heart, our core integrity, and our life’s purpose.”
Source: The Book of Simple Human Truths
“It may be difficult for the loved ones to accept and examine their own issues when they are in relationships with compulsive gamblers. Their lives are frequently filled with fear, disappointment, frustration, anger and a general feeling of unmanageability, making even the simplest tasks of daily life a challenge. They know that something has to change in the way they are relating to the gamblers, but can’t think of what to do and how to do it, so they take no action other than repeating past behaviors. They have no way of knowing what may happen if they were to act and react differently. Fear of this unknown is a great deterrent for taking action. Feeling like a victim is a natural result.”
Source: GAMES COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS and WE PLAY Second Edition
“It may be difficult to believe," he said. "I know it may have come across as... romantic, because of how I act when I get her letters. Because of that dress she sent me. But sometimes two people have a deep connection. It makes romance seem trivial. It isn't about anything carnal. It's about souls. About the deepest part of who you are as a person.”
Source: We Are Okay
“It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification.”
“It may be," Doc Hansom the goatfish concluded, "that it is already too late.”
Source: FISH TANK: A Fable for Our Times
“It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.”
Source: The Essential Darwin
“It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant.”
Source: The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)
“It may be doubted whether any repentance is genuine which is not repentance for sin rather than sins”
Source: Systematic Theology : Volume II (Illustrated)
“It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.”
“It may be easier than ever to start a product, but building a company is just as hard as its ever been.”
“It may be easier to believe that we remain lean because we're virtuous and we get fat because we're not, but the evidence simply says otherwise. Virtue has little more to with our weight than our height. When we grow taller, it's hormones and enzymes that are promoting growth, and we consume more calories than we expend as a result. Growth is the cause - increased appetite and decreased energy expenditure (gluttony and sloth) are the effects. When we grow fatter, the same is true as well.
We don't get fat because we overeat; we overeat because were fat.”
Source: Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
“It may be easier to get forgiveness than permission, but trust is harder to get back than both.”
“It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.”
Source: Our Country
“It may be enough, however, to have it said that we survive in exact relationship to the dedication of our poets (include preachers, musicians, and blues singers).”
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.”
“It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.”
Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays
“It may be expedient to take stock of all the affecting pieces that might shatter in the wake of an emotional earthquake, once red flags come up in a committed relationship and an overarching scene has to be fashioned for a recast life experience. ("Waiting for the pieces to fall into place")”
“It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.”
“It may be fashionable to assert that all is holy, but not many are willing to haul ass to church four or five times a day to sing about it. It's not for the faint of heart.”
Source: Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
“It may be flawed logic, but it's still logic.”
“It may be from some moral obliquity in myself, or from some strange disease; but for me, and I should think too for every human being in whose breast a human heart is beating, to know that one single creature is in that dreadful place would make a hell of heaven itself. And they have hearts in heaven, for they love there.”
Source: The Nemesis of Faith
“It may be further remarked, that in some words the metaphorical sense hath justled out the original sense altogether, so that in respect of it they are become obsolete. Of this kind in our tongue are the verbs to train, to curb, to edify, to enhance, the primitive significations whereof were to draw, to bend, to build, to lift.”
Source: The Philosophy of Rhetoric
“It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
Source: Joyful Christian
“It may be hard on some fathers not to have a son, but it is much harder on a boy not to have a father.”
“It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity.”
Source: The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow
“It may be hard to remember how difficult it was for people to talk about HIV/AIDS back in the 1980's and because of both Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan - in particular Mrs Reagan - we started a national conversation, when before nobody would talk about it, nobody wanted to do anything about it. Something that I really appreciate was her very effective but low-key advocacy, but it penetrated the public conscience, and people began to say "hey we have to do something about this too.”
“It may be healthier to eat beer and franks with cheer and thanks, than to eat sprouts and bread with doubts and dread.”
“It may be history, it may be only a legend, a tradition. It may have happened, it may not have happened: but it could have happened. It may be that the wise and the learned believed it in the old days; it maybe that only the unlearned and the simple loved it and credited it.”
Source: The Prince and the Pauper
“It may be hyperbolic to declare that Shakespeare teaches us more about being human than all the natural scientists combined.”
“It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.”
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.”
“It may be impossible for a man by merely willing it to add wings to his body, but it is possible for any man, by merely willing it, to add wings to his soul. This perennial miracle of the moral nature is capable of happening at any time.”
Source: Life and destiny
“It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.”
“It may be in seemingly unimportant things that a man expresses his passion for perfection, yet they will count heavily in the long run.”
Source: Succeeding With What You Have
“It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.”
Source: The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays
“It may be incredible that one creed is the truth and the others are relatively false. At the same time, it is not only incredible, but intolerable, to believe that there is no truth in or out of the creeds, and all are equally false. For then nobody can ever set anything right, if everybody is equally wrong.”
“It may be-indeed to my mind it seems just-that, when our life has closed, when evil or good is no longer a choice for us, we may still have to witness the working out of the train of consequences we have laid. If human souls continue after death, then surely human interests continue after death. But that is merely my own guess at the meaning of the things seen”
“It may be indispensable that Our Lord's teaching, by that elusiveness (to our systematising intellect), should demand a response from the whole man, should make it so clear that there is no question of learning a subject but of steeping ourselves in a Personality, acquiring a new outlook and temper, breathing a new atmosphere, suffering Him, in His own way, to rebuild in us the defaced image of Himself.”
Source: Reflections on the Psalms
“It may be inevitable that mankind has to suffer so that it may gain experience to transcend and transform her collective consciousness.”
“It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because”
“It may be interesting to note how many statesmen there are who believe that the cost of living can be reduced by making the people of other countries help to feed and clothe us.”
Source: Banking and Currency and the Money Trust
“It may be just one facet of your personality, or it may not even be a facet but only a pretension. You can show this false face with no problem when sometimes you meet on a sea beach, sometimes in a garden, sometimes under the moon and the stars, but when you really start living together then the reality starts surfacing. The real person is a hell and all that sweet talk that had happened under the stars becomes just lies.”
“It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.”
“It may be laid down as a general rule, that their confidence in and obedience to a government, will be commonly proportioned to the goodness or badness of its administration . . . . Various reasons have been suggested in the course of these papers, to induce a probability that the general government will be better administered than the particular governments.”
Source: The federalist papers