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“You may change your profile picture to Trayvon Martin or Eric Garner, but you will never actually walk the streets the way they have, or systematically had your vertebrae stunted. So you will not walk that shrouded walk unless you're on the inside and you can occasionally nod at another on the inside and that acknowledgement can carry you for a while as it won't come from the outside.”
“You may charge me with murder--or want of sense--
(We are all of us weak at times):
But the slightest approach to a false pretence
Was never among my crimes!”
Source: Alice in Wonderland
“You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.”
Source: Sesame and Lillies: Three Lectures
“You may choose to live like a miser,” Leo said, “but I’ll be damned if I have to. You’re incapable of enjoying the moment because you’re always intent on tomorrow. Well, for some people, tomorrow never comes.”
Her temper flared. “Someone has to think of tomorrow, you selfish spendthrift!”
“Coming from an overbearing shrew—”
Win stepped between them, resting a gentle hand on Amelia’s shoulder. “Hush, both of you. It serves no purpose to make yourselves cross just before we are to leave.” She gave Amelia a sweet quirk of a smile that no one on earth could have resisted. “Don’t frown like that, dear. What if your face stayed that way?”
“With prolonged exposure to Leo,” Amelia replied, “it undoubtedly would.”
Source: Mine Till Midnight
“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”
“You may choose your friends, but not your unlikely saviors,” Magnus said cheerfully.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.”
“You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“You may choose your words like a connoisseur,
And polish it up with art,
But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays,
Is the word that comes from the heart.”
“You may claim to love Jesus but your life proves you are still walking in darkness—confused, befuddled and foggy! When you are truly in love with Jesus, conversing with Him, He turns up the light. There is no darkness at all in His presence. The worst possible darkness to mankind is not in the hearts of God-hating Communist leaders or Christ-hating atheists. It is, rather, the horrible darkness that blinds so-called Christians who refuse to walk in the light.”
“You may come or not to walk beside me, I won't stand still in silence while the oceans burn and the sun turns dark - I will either right the wrongs or perish in the attempt - and even if I burn to ashes in trying to humanize my surroundings, those ashes of mine will still smoke inclusion, equality and humaneness - I am not born a human to crawl as an indifferent vermin, I am born a human to embrace death for the values, the principles, the virtues that ought to be the foundation of human civilization - I am sleepless and I will stay sleepless till all the children of earth can sleep in peace with a full stomach and a happy heart, without worrying about guns and bombs, without worrying about prejudice and phobia, without worrying about discrimination and deportation - I will stay sleepless till the whole world becomes a family, not in theory, not in philosophy, not in argument, not even in futuristic vision, but in reality and practice.”
Source: Sleepless for Society
“You may command nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her.”
“You may command Nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her. You cannot intelligently obey that which you do not comprehend. Therefore I also say, ask of Nature that you may be one with her and she will whisper her secrets to you to the extent in which you are prepared to listen. Seek to be alone much to commune with Nature and be thus inspired by her mighty whisperings within your consciousness. Nature is a most jealous god, for she will not whisper her inspiring revelations to you unless you are absolutely alone with her.”
“You may command the sky,' the horned man in the golden scale mail returns. 'But alas, we are here on the ground.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“You may complain that rain has stained your plans but you cannot restrain the rain; rain is water and water is life. None appreciates rainbow and sunshine better than he on whose parade it has rained.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.”
Source: T. Lucreti Cari De rerum natura libri sex
“You may concentrate on appearances all through the rest of your house, but in the bedroom comfort should be supreme. I think that bedrooms should also be very intimate rooms-they should express your personal preferences in every way...Of all the rooms in the house your bedroom is yours.”
“You may conquer her love of God: you will never overcome her fear of the devil.”
“You may consider me presumptuous, gentlemen, but I claim to be a citizen of the United States, with all the qualifications of a voter. I can read the Constitution, I am possessed of two hundred and fifty dollars, and the last time I looked in the old family Bible I found I was over twenty-one years of age.”
Source: Memorial of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Elizabeth L. Bladen, Olympia Brown, Susan B. Anthony, and Josephine L. Griffing, to the Congress of the United States, and the Arguments Thereon Before the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. Senate
“You may consider us to be properties
of existence as much as entities. - Platform K”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“You may consider yourself an individual, but as a cell biologist, I can tell you that you are in truth a cooperative community of approximately fifty trillion single-celled citizens.”
Source: The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles: Easyread Large Edition
“You may continue to stay together after betrayal, and the scar may heal and condense, but will never totally disappear.”
“You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may learn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk in water and live in fire; But control of the mind is better and more difficult.”
“You may cross many bridges and you may travel many roads, but you will always carry your own nature with you! Your nature is your shadow!”
“You may cry out tears for misplacing your money, but you got to cry out blood if you have misplaced your dreams. Sadly, you may not even know the great deal of influence you loss when you misplace your dreams, so how will you cry for such a loss?”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“You may cure yourself of a depression by forcing yourself to perform, in rapid order and with excruciating concentration, half a dozen or so unpleasant chores, especially if they have long been postponed. This is a kind of homeopathic purgative, a treatment of like with like.”
Source: Time and the Art of Living
“You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were never dreamed of before; yet, if you have not developed in the soul of the pupil strong habits of virtue which will sustain her in the struggle of life, you have not educated her, but only put in her hand a powerful instrument of self-destruction.”
“You may defy the universe. You may say, 'Let it be irrational, I am not. Let it be merciless, I will have mercy. By whatever curious chance it has produced me, nowt that I am here I will according to human values. I know the universe will win in the end, but what is that to me? I will go down fighting. Amid all the wastefulness I will persevere; amid all this competition, I will make sacrifices. Be damned to the universe!”
Source: Present Concerns: Journalistic Essays
“You may delay, but time will not.”
Source: Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom
“You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.”
“You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners.”
Source: Specimens of the table talk
“You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.”
Source: Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund
“You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.”
“You may disagree. Personal history and national history do not always overlap, a point often overlooked in some of the broad strokes applied to the SG50 celebrations. But do consider your choices. In the age of Buzzfeed, we love lists. Make your own. No two lists will be the same, but collectively, they all say the same thing. They are all in search of a soul.”
“You may discover that when there is no resistance to totally being in hell, heaven opens up and samsara reveals its true nature as nirvana.”
Source: Nothing to Grasp
“You may discover your purpose, but if you take it for granted, you will abuse yourself.”
Source: Leaders' Watchwords
“You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your view of what it's about. The work of art must be judged by how well it succeeds in its intention.”
Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“You may do as you wish without fear of retribution. It may serve you, however, to be aware of consequences. Consequences are results. Natural outcomes. These are not at all the same as retributions, or punishments. Outcomes are simply that. They are what results from the natural application of natural laws. They are that which occurs, quite predictably, as a consequence of what has occurred.”
“You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.”
Source: The lives of the heart
“YOU MAY DOUBT MY CAPABILITY
NOT MY INTENT
मेरी क़ाबलियत पे शक़ जाइज़ है, मेरी नियत पर नहीं
MERI QABLIYAT PE
SHAQ JAIZ HAI,
MERI NIYAT PAR NAHI.N”
“You may dream about turning it around as quickly as we did, but you wouldn't expect it to become reality, ... But we jelled quickly and got it done. We're a whole new defense compared to last year.”
“You may dream big, but if you do not devote time to your dreams, they will always remain dreams.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.”
“You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.”
“You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.”
“You may either become a warrior on purpose or unintentionally become a worrier.”
“You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.”
Source: The Two Paths
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.”
Source: Conversations with Maya Angelou
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.”