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“It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“It may be true that there is no God here, but there must be one not far off, and at such a moment one feels His presence; which comes to the same as saying (and I readily give this sincere profession of faith): I believe in God, and that it is His wi”
Source: Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence
“It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.”
Source: The Lessons of History
“It may be true too that I would not have encountered the most important books and art and ideas of my life had I not chased down a Ph.D. I've thought about that a lot....MAYBE I would have found the same books on my own, but I can't know for sure.”
“It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.”
“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.”
Source: The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set
“It may be unfathomable in architecture, but it is very practical, or routine, for a person in theater to use action. You have the line, "Come home, son," but you can't play that line by going out and being a mother; you can't be a noun. But you can play to smother your son; you can play to grovel to your son. Again, the real information is carried in action. And, to an annoying degree, theater people talk to each other in infinitive expressions. If you don't have a vivid verb to describe what you're doing, you're probably going to be a pretty bad actress.”
“It may be unpopular and out-of-date to say-but I do not think that a scientific result which gives us a better understanding of the world and makes it more harmonious in our eyes should be held in lower esteem than, say, an invention which reduces the cost of paving roads, or improves household plumbing.”
Source: Alfred Tarski, Collected Papers: 1935-1944
“It may be useful to remember that a peacetime political machine is built essentially on patronage.”
Source: Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice
“It may be vain and wrong to say it, but- I'm afraid- Laurie is getting too fond of me.
Then you don't care for him in the way it is evident he begins to care for you? And Mrs March looked anxious as she put the question.
Mercy, no! I love the dear boy, as I always have, and am immensely proud of him, but as for anything more, it's out of the question.”
Source: Little Women
“It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“It may be very well to do this and that for good fellowship; but it will never do to lose the friendship of God in order to keep on good terms with men.”
Source: All of Grace (Authentic Original Classic): An urgent Word with Those Who Are Seeking Salvation by the Lord Jesus Christ
“It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew.”
“It may be well here to sum up, in the fewest possible words, the conclusions reached in this book:
(I) That our present so called "Civilisation" is only a "manner of speaking," and is in fact quite a rude state as compared with what may already be foreseen.
(2) That the basis of any real morality must be the sense of Kinship between all living beings.
(3) That there can be no abiding national welfare until the extremes of Wealth and Poverty are abolished.
(4) That Warfare will not be discontinued until we have ceased to honour soldiering as heroic.
(5) That the Rights of Animals have henceforth to be considered; and that such practices as cruel sports, vivisection, and flesh eating are not compatible with civilised life.
(6) That Free Thought is essential to progress, and that the religion of the future will be a belief in a Creed of Kinship, a charter of human and sub-human relationships.”
Source: The Creed of Kinship
“It may be well to remember that the highest level of moral aspiration recorded in history was reached by a few ancient Jews--Micah, Isaiah, and the rest--who took no count whatever of what might not happen to them after death. It is not obvious to me why the same point should not by and by be reached by the Gentiles.”
Source: Aphorisms and reflections
“It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.”
Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro
“It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.”
“It may be whispered to those uninitiated people who are anxious to know the habits and make the acquaintance of men of letters, that there are no race of people who talk about books, or, perhaps, who read books, so little as literary men.”
Source: The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy
“It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.”
Source: The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition
“It may be years until the day
My dreams will match up with my pay.”
“It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.”
“It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.”
“It may break your heart but it’ll open your eyes.”
“It may come as a surprise but I also really started to get into history while I was at school. I found the projects about World War Two fascinating - perhaps when I get the time again, I could pick up where I left off.”
“It may come as a surprise to many that there are ciphers (coded messages indicated by a letter or group of letters) in the Bible. Some are hidden; some, when revealed, are a key part of the narrative itself”
“It may come as a surprise to people, but I'm actually quite boring and normal. What do I do? I read books. I drive my kid to school. I have lunch with my wife. I pick my kid up from school. I go home.”
“It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.”
“It may comfort you to know that if your child reaches the age of eleven or twelve and you have a good bond or relationship, no matter how dramatic adolescence becomes, you children will probably turn out all right and want some form of connection to you in adulthood.”
“It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.”
“It may cost more to raise food responsibly and consume real food, but would you rather suffer the consequences of living on a toxic planet in an unhealthy body?”
Source: Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics
“it may difficult task to learn how to earn money
but learning how to spend money is the most difficult art”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings
“It may drive us insane when we see the simple mathematics apparently failing in the system surrounding us: just a handful of wrongdoers oppressing the vast number of the wronged ones! But it’s not the truth, if we have a closer look at it… The unfortunate truth is that the majority of the wronged ones are shackled within their own periphery by fear, greed, egoism and many other trammels, but it’s not that they remain there all the time… They, now and again, come out of their periphery to register themselves among the wrongdoers whenever it suits them and then retreat again inside their periphery after serving their purposes. Once inside the periphery they are once again the innocent wronged ones… They can’t see the transition, as there are masks upon their faces, which restrict their vision: the masks of sanity, behind which they are allowed to commit all the insanities. And at times the mask of sanity appears so dreadful that insanity feels saner before it. The fanaticism, the terrorism, the cast-carnages! Inflicting punishment upon an insane person for his insanity! Beating him black and blue for a crime he isn’t even conscious of having committed! Just to protect honor! The honor, which doesn’t get tarnished by the heinous crimes they commit! But it gets tainted by an insane act from an insane person! What an irony!”
Source: The Web of Karma
“It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.”
“It may even be that, as you look more closely, to recognize the hidden seed which, born of a secret union, grows into a luxuriant plant and spreads forth into a thousand tendrils, until a single blossom, swelling to maturity, absorbs all the life-sap and kills the seed itself. [...] I came to feel that what we call simply dream and imagination might represent the secret thread that runs through our lives and links its varied facets; and that the man who thinks that, because he has perceived this, he has acquired the power to break the thread and challenge that mysterious force which rules us, is to be given up as lost.”
Source: The Devil's Elixirs
“It may feel as though the fixed mindset gave you your ambition, your edge, your individuality. Maybe you fear you'll become a bland cog in the wheel just like everyone else. Ordinary. But opening yourself up to growth makes you more yourself, not less.”
Source: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
“It may feel like the more you know about depression and the many forms it can take, the more questions you have. That's how I feel.”
“It may feel terrifying to experience the shame and fear of rejection, but it is also a liberating moment. It is a moment where you allow yourself to feel every inch of pain that you avoided by building these crumbling walls. It’s the pain we were supposed to feel and let go, finally leaving our bodies.”
Source: From Seeking To Radiating Love: Evolution is unavoidable in the process of overpowering doubt
“It may get worse before it gets better. But it WILL get better.”
“It may happen, however, that he falls into despair just for the fact that he has opened his heart to another; it may be that he thinks
it would have been infinitely preferable to maintain silence rather than have anyone privy to his secret. There are examples of introverts who are brought to despair precisely because they have acquired a confidant.”
Source: The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
“It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century.”
Source: The world of Evelyn Waugh
“It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.”
“It may happen that the enemies of Islam may consider it expedient not to take any action against Islam, if Islam leaves them alone in their geographical boundaries to continue the lordship of some men over others and does not extend its message and its declaration of universal freedom within their domain. But Islam cannot agree to this unless they submit to its authority by paying Jizyah, which will be a guarantee that they have opened their doors for the preaching of Islam and will not put any obstacle in its way through the power of the state.”
“It may happen that we miss the people we took care of more than we miss those who took care of us because the desire to love and the search for meaning are stronger than the desire to be loved.”
“It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.”
Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes
“It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.”
“It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.”
“It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.”
Source: Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels
“It may have been that the detour was easier to walk and more permissive in the walking.”
“It may have escaped your notice, but life isn't fair.”