I Quotes
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“It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..
“It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at a Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency.”
“It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.”
Source: Basic Writings of George Washington
“It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.”
“It may be literally said that he was a man of one idea, and that was, love, to Jesus, and a desire to manifest it in all its varied forms.”
Source: To the Golden Shore: The Life of Adoniram Judson
“It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.”
Source: Young India: 1919-1922
“It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Hazlitt
“It may be meaningless, but at least it's a gesture.”
“It may be more important in the mathematics class how you teach than what you teach.”
Source: Mathematical Discovery
“It may be most difficult to empathize with those we are closest to.”
“It may be my rather puritanical upbringing at odds with my inborn laziness that makes me feel guilty at the end of the day, unless I am able to point at some achievement. But this need be no more impressive than cooking a meal or going for a long walk.”
“It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.”
Source: Margaret Mead, some personal views
“It may be necessary to change our brand, catch phrases, strategy, design, etc. once in awhile. It may give us competitive advantages. But a change that demands the change of the SOUL of who we're doesn't deserve to be entertained.”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.”
Source: Tales of the Night
“It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.”
“It may be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.”
Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's
“It may be objected, that I am now recommending dissimulation to you; I both own and justify it. It has been long said: Qui nescitdissimular nescit regnare: I go still farther, and say, that without some dissimulation, no business can be carried on at all.”
“It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..
“It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification. This is so evidently true with regard to the whole of our existence that all precepts of theology have no other tendency than to enforce a life of faith; a life regulated not by our senses but by our belief; a life in which pleasures are to be refused for fear of invisible punishments, and calamities sometimes to be sought, and always endured, in hope of rewards that shall be obtained in another state.”
Source: Works: ¬The Rambler
“It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state of order again; for the nature of mundane affairs not allowing them to continue in an even course, when they have arrived at their greatest perfection, they soon begin to decline.”
“It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength.”
Source: A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
“It may be old hat, but I see no reason to close off what is for me a fruitful subject of inquiry, especially so for one, like me, who is very much interested in creating stories and novels of ideas.”
“It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.”
“It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.”
Source: Great Expectations
“It may be our actions that define us, but it is our reaction that changes the course of things.”
Source: The Last Dragon
“It may be over but it won't stop there, I am here for you if you'd only care”
“It may be possible for each to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to think too often or too deeply about that of his neighbor. The load, or weight, or burden of my neighbor's glory should be laid daily on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the proud will be broken. ...
"It is in light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations -- these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit. ... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.”
Source: The Weight of Glory
“It may be possible that Leukemia in children is linked to the location of the fuse board and the electrical meter on the home.”
Source: Electrical Forensics
“It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind; - but when a beginning is made - when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt - it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.”
Source: Emma
“It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.”
Source: Emma
“It may be possible to fight intolerance, stupidity, and fanaticism seperately, but when they come together there is no hope.”
“It may be possible to forget our past but our past is not going to forget us.”
“It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.”
“It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border.”
Source: Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West-Florida (etc.) 2nd Ed. - London, J. Johnson 1794
“It may be providence's will that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free.”
Source: Bal Gangadhar Tilak: His Writings and Speeches
“It may be quite true that some negroes are better than some white men; but no rational man, cognisant of the facts, believes that the average negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the average white man. And, if this be true, it is simply incredible that, when all his disabilities are removed, and our prognathous relative has a fair field and no favour, as well as no oppressor, he will be able to compete successfully with his bigger-brained and smaller-jawed rival, in a contest which is to be carried on by thoughts and not by bites.”
“It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent.”
Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson
“It may be relatively mild when expressed as criticism, anger, or feelings of severe frustration. Criticism has a negative influence on the feelings of love for and interest in one's spouse.”
“It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained kind of half-laugh, as such persons are never without some diffidence about them; but that of fools is the most honest, natural, open laugh in the world.”
Source: The Guardian, with Notes, and General Indexes: Complete in One Volume
“It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.”
Source: Les Misérables
“It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow-moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if such exist, but it is a waste of time.”
Source: The Death and Life of American Cities
“It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)
“It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.... They both speak by and to the same organs; the bodies in which both of them are clothed may be said to be of the same substance, their affections are kindred, and almost identical, not necessarily differing even in degree; Poetry sheds no tears "such as Angels weep," but natural and human tears; she can boast of no celestial ichor that distinguishes her vital juices from those of prose; the same human blood circulates through the veins of them both.”
“It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.”
Source: Modern Cookery: For Private Families... a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts...
“It may be said "In research, if you know what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it." In a sense, if the answer turns out to be exactly what you expected, then you have learned nothing new, although you may have had your confidence increased somewhat.”
Source: Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers
“It may be said, in broad-brush terms, that the primary purpose of life is the continuation of life. A deep program for survival and reproduction underwrites the complex cycles of life, in which death is the grand equalizer. There is, however, a peculiar novelty: human awareness of the cycle of life and a capacity to anticipate our own, individual death.”
Source: Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective
“It may be said of happy marriages as of the phoenix - there is but one a century.”
“It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present".”