I Quotes
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“It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. (1974)”
“It may be that we cease; we cannot tell.
Even if we cease, life is a miracle.”
Source: The Collected Poems
“It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing or the succession of pictures on a cinema film. It may be that reality is an illusion of movement in an eternal, static, multidimensional universe. We may be only a story written on the ground of the inconceivable; the pattern on a rug beneath the feet of the incomprehensible.”
“It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things do work, but only what kind of quick, easy outer impression they give. If so, there is little hope for our cities or probably for much else in our society. But I do not think this is so.”
“It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things work but only the kind of quick, easy outer impression that they get.”
“It may be that we’re not seeing the wonder in life because all we’re doing is wondering how we’re going to survive life.”
“It may be that what you could be haunts you. It is real. It is a weight you have to carry around. Each failure to become, to be, is a weight. Each state you could inhabit is a burden as heavy as any physical weight, but more so, because it weighs on your soul. It is the ghost of your possibilities hanging around your neck, an invisible albatros, potentials unknowingly murdered.”
“It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.”
Source: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.”
Source: Standing by Words
“It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”
“It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body.”
“It may be that writers in my position,exiles, or emigrants or expatriates, are haunted by some sense of loss, some urge to reclaim, to look back, even at the risk of being mutilated into pillars of salt. But if we do look back, we must do in the knowledge - which gives rise to profound uncertainties- that our physical alienation from India almost inevitably means that we will not be capable of reclaiming precisely the thing that was lost, that we will, in short, create fictions, not actual cities or villages, but invisible ones, imaginary homelands, Indias of the mind.”
“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.”
Source: The Return of Sherlock Holmes
“It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.”
Source: The Passion
“It may be that you still ought to thank God; why, for all you know he may be preserving you for something. Be of great heart, and fear less.”
“It may be that you've just missed a great opportunity that should have been your turning point towards the direction of greatness. What next? Go into your closet and learn your lessons; "opportunity missed may not be regained, but new opportunity can be recreated with the will that have to work harder!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.”
Source: The 80/20 Principle
“It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty, your true romantic has the truer vision, and beholds, afar off, in all its lurid splendour and terrible proportions, the piquant adventure we call life.”
Source: Harbours of Memory
“It may be the best that Hillary Clinton can do, but it's not the best America can do.”
“It may be the case that [post-Holocaust] the authentic Jewish
agnostic and the authentic Jewish believer are closer than at
any previous time.”
“It may be the character of his mind, to be always in singular need of occupation. That may be, in part, natural to it; in part, the result of affliction. The less it was occupied with healthy things, the more it would be in danger of turning in the unhealthy direction. He may have observed himself, and made the discovery.”
Source: a tale of two cities
“It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.”
Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“It may be the coldest day of The year, what does he think of That? I mean, what do I? And if I do, Perhaps I am myself again.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
“It may be the first day of your life, the prime of youth or several decades in, when Medicine Woman calls you. Your name on her list. Her new initiate. She crept in whilst you were sleeping, when you over-exerted, when you kissed him, or ate that, or lived there or pushed too hard just one time too many. She crept in and curled up in your cells, your heart, waiting to meet you. Longing to know you. Longing for you to know her, at last.
And what feels like the end is in fact a beginning, of a new road, an unknown path of pain and healing. She will show you how to slow down, she will run her fingers roughly through your life and help you sort the busyness from what matters, she will show you how to find support… and who you really are, beyond your roles and expectations… and even more beyond the System the world has forced you into. She transports you into the timelessness of big pains and tiny joys. Initiates you into your strength. Into your love. Into your courage. Into a world beyond your control.
She has sent me an invitation. I see yours too, tucked in your bag, amongst all the receipts and bills, the pens and detritus of life. Take it out.
It is time.”
Source: Medicine Woman: Reclaiming the Soul of Healing
“It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre--the novel designed on purpose to be excludedfrom the Booker short-list.”
“It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.”
“It may be the way the cookie crumbles on Madison Avenue, but in Hong Kong its the way the egg rolls.”
Source: 2000 new laughs for speakers: the ad-libber's handbook
“It may be the will of Heaven that America shall suffer calamities still more wasting, and distresses yet more dreadful. If this is to be the case, it will have the good effect at least. It will inspire us with many virtues, which we have not, and correct many errors, follies and vices. But I must submit all my hopes and fears to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the faith may be, I firmly believe.”
“It may be those who do most, dream most.”
Source: Leacock on Life
“It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used for products like cosmetics, food coloring, and floor polishes. Should thousands of animals suffer so that a new kind of lipstick or floor wax can be put on the market? Don't we already have an excess of most of these products? Who benefits from their introduction, except the companies that hope to profit from them?”
“It may be too hard for you, but it does not mean it is impossible for God.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.”
“It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of Christian morality, but surely it is not too much to ask that they should conform to the code of courtesy and good breeding recognized among gentlemen in the intercourse of social life.”
Source: Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General, U. S. Army
“It may be true of all relationships, not only between fathers and sons, but between men and women. Nothing seems fixed. Everything is always changing. We seem to have very little control over our emotional life.”
Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout
“It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.”
“It may be true that encryption makes certain investigations of crime more difficult. It can close down certain investigative techniques or make it harder to get access to certain kinds of electronic evidence. But it also prevents crime by making our computers, our infrastructure, our medical records, our financial records, more robust against criminals. It prevents crime.”
“It may be true that every necessary war must also really be a just war; but it does not absolutely follow that every just war is a necessary war.”
“It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone; but the gaol thus reached is not worth reaching.”
“It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.”
Source: The Rough Riders: An Autobiography
“It may be true that love is blind, but only for what is ugly: its sight is keen enough for what is beautiful.”
“It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“It may be true that only those minds which are habituated to think logically can safely trust their intuitive conclusions, on the theory that the subconscious level will do its kind of work as faithfully as the conscious does its kind.”
Source: In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963
“It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is true of every exclusive occupation. Likewise a mere linguist, a mere jurist, a mere soldier, a mere merchant, and so forth. One could add such idle chatter that when a certain exclusive occupation is often connected with certain specific shortcomings, it is on the other hand always free of certain other shortcomings.”
“It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst.”
“It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless.”
“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”
“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”
“It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.”
“It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.”
“It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.”