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“You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy, but till you feed us right and wrong can wait. Or is it only those who have the money who can enter the land of milk and honey?”
Source: The Threepenny Opera
“You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!”
Source: Plays: The Caucasian chalk circle, translated by J. and T. Stern, with W.H. Auden. The threepenny opera, translated by D.I. Vesey and E. Bentley. The trial of Lucullus, translated by H.R. Hays. The life of Galileo, translated by D.I. Vesey
“You may pronounce the sentence upon me, honourable judge, but let the world know that in A.D. 1886, in the State of Illinois, eight men were sentenced to death because they believed in a better future; because they had not lost their faith in the ultimate victory of liberty and justice!”
“You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.”
Source: Remember, now be here, now here be
“You may quarrel, but let it not end in fighting.”
Source: Arrow of God
“You may quickly realize after the death of a loved one that the day they died is not the hardest part. It may be the worst day of your life, but it is not the hardest part. The hardest part is returning to life again. Because while you had no say in your loved one’s dying, you do have a say in your living. And choosing to live after someone you love has died is one of the hardest choices we make. It’s okay if life after loss feels more like a struggle than the day your loved one died . . . because often, it is.”
Source: Your Grief, Your Way: A Year of Practical Guidance and Comfort After Loss
“You may reach the tree top,and seem to touch the sky , but know that the tree your resting on, is grounded and rooted in the soil ,deep in the earth.”
“You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don't have, at the back of yourminds, the change for words in definite images which can only be acquired through the operation of your observing faculties on the phenomena of nature.”
Source: American Addresses: With a Lecture on the Study of Biology
“You may readily judge whether you are a child of God or a hypocrite by seeing in what direction your soul turns in seasons of severe trial. The hypocrite flies to the world and finds a sort of comfort there. But the child of God runs to his Father and expects consolation only from the Lord's hand.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 59: Sermons 3335-3386
“You may reason that we have [brains] to perceive the world or to think, and that's completely wrong.”
“You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years.”
“You may receive a pie, eat it and forget. You may receive champagne, drink it and forget. But when you receive a book, you can open it again and again.”
Source: 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
“You may regret for messing up on few occasions, but you need to appreciate the fact that blames don’t clean the mess; they only smear the blame on your face. Make changes!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“You may remain a couple after betrayal and even establish a quality relationship, but the mental anguish never leaves, and your soul will haunt you forever.”
“You may remember that on earth—though of course we never confessed it—the death of anyone we knew, even those we liked best, was always mingled with a certain satisfaction at being finally done with them.”
Source: Man and Superman
“You may remember the paradox of time we mentioned earlier: Whatever you do takes time, and yet it is always now. So while your inner purpose is to negate time, your outer purpose necessarily involves future and so could not exist without time. But it is always secondary. Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.”
“You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them a man stoop down and pick up something from the ground, look at it, and put it away in his pocket. The friend said to the devil, "What did that man pick up?" "He picked up a piece of the truth," said the devil. "That is a very bad business for you, then," said his friend. "Oh, not at all," the devil replied, "I am going to help him organize it."”
Source: Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
“You may remember when you were a child being told that when visiting a place, such as someone else's home or a school or church, you should always leave it looking better than you found it. In other words, we should not make a mess and leave that mess there for someone else to clean up later. It's the same with people, not just places. It is our responsibility to take care of one another. One of the best ways to do that is by leaving the person standing in front of us better off than they were before we met them.”
Source: The Little Professor
“You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it.”
“You may resist with hate, but you will come back to Love. You may create the divide, but you will come back to unite. You may identify with chaos, but you will come back to peace. There is no other way out. The cycle of existence will not accept any other response.”
“You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“You may run from the calling, but, you will find no real peace until you fulfill your destiny.”
Source: Magnificence
“You may run until your feet are raw,
but the mirror will always find you.
In its cold reflection,
the truth of who you are stands waiting,
and no matter how far you go,
only in meeting that gaze
will you unlock your freedom.”
Source: When Life Begins to Whisper: A Journey Beyond Answers
“You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.”
Source: A Tramp Abroad
“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
“You may say I may be unfit to be mayor. But you can never say I'm an unfit mayor.”
“You may say i'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one”
“You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.”
Source: Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)
“You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue.”
Source: There Once Was A Boy
“You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying.”
Source: Jayber Crow: A Novel
“You may say that the serious writer doesn't have to bother about the tired reader, but he does, because they are all tired. One old lady who wants her heart lifted up wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times and what you get is a book club. I used to think it should be possible to write for some supposed elite, for the people who attend universities and sometimes know how to read, but I have since found that though you may publish your stories in Botteghe Oscure, if they are any good at all, you are eventually going to get a letter from some old lady in California, or some inmate of the Federal Penitentiary or the state insane asylum or the local poorhouse, telling you where you have failed to meet his needs.”
Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“You may say that things happen just by chance, but I don't feel that way.”
“You may say to yourself: "Well, how did I get here?"”
“You may say we're all dreamers,
And you're not the only one,
But if you care to join us,
Then the world will be more fun.”
“You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand.”
“You may say what you will,
At such peace I am terrified.
There is nothing else beside.”
“You may say who am I to be a Writer, to put my heart and soul onto the page, to write my name on things, to have the gall to think I could stand alone with my words, to take chances, to try? I say, who the hell are you not to? This is a gift we all possess, an art we can practice without advanced instruction, a form of communication that can not only reach masses but also exist forever in time. Who are you to deny such a gift? You can write, and no one else is stopping you from being a Writer, only yourself. So don’t allow yourself to stand in the way of something so fulfilling.”
Source: Write Dumb: Writing Better By Thinking Less
“You may say you're "anti-status," but if you filled a room with people who said that, they would soon form a status hierarchy based on how anti-status each person claims to be.”
Source: I, Mammal: How to Make Peace With the Animal Urge for Social Power
“You may say you won’t interfere with another person’s soul, but you do—merely by existing. The snag about it is the practical difficulty, so to speak, of not existing.”
Source: Gaudy Night
“You may say, "Oh, no. You can't touch a traditional recipe." But we ask: why can't you? Back in 1350, a vinaigrette was a stew, so we ask, why not? This can be applied to any kind of cooking, and that's the shocking part of it. It kind of bends all the traditions. It's a good thing.”
“You may say, 'God doesn't hate anybody. God is love.' No, my friend. You need to understand something. Jesus Christ taught, the prophets taught, the apostles taught this: that apart from the grace of God revealed in Jesus Christ our Lord the only thing left for you is the wrath, the fierce anger of God because of your rebellion and your sin.”
“You may say, 'That's naïve of you,' and maybe it is, but in my mind, I'm celebrating every kind of woman. That's what a creative person does.”
“You may scoff at the Tooth Fairy if you like. But the Tooth Fairy's approach has gotten more politicians elected than any economist's analysis.”
Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)
“You may see a cup of tea fall off a table and break into pieces on the floor... But you will never see the cup gather itself back together and jump back on the table. The increase of disorder, or entropy, is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.”
“You may see all that is around you But you may feel nothing at all. So try and close your eyes so tight And listen to the night time fall.”
Source: Kartusch
“You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd.
[Lat., Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises,
. . . Epicuri de grege porcum.]”
“You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament.”
“You may seek companionship and warmth, for example, but if your unconscious intention is to keep people at a distance, the experiences of separation and pain will surface again and again until you come to understand that you, yourself, are creating them. Eventually, you will choose to create harmony and love. You will choose to draw to you the highest-frequency currents that each situation has to offer. Eventually, you will come to understanding that love heals everything, and love is all there is.”
Source: The Seat of the Soul
“You may sell your work, but not your soul.”
“You may set out with the goal of becoming a billionaire or a Nobel Prize winning Scientist or Author within the next 20 years. But most of the times, life will throw a curve ball at you that may displace all your plans.
Your business ventures that you thought would work out exceedingly well and become your stepping stone to becoming a billionaire may become a super flop and leave you with a huge debt instead.
The miraculous scientific discoveries you intend to make to win the Nobel Prize may never come across your way. You may make discoveries that are not that important or someone else who is much better funded may beat you to it.
You may experience a personal tragedy which leaves you extremely disadvantaged.
You may experience unexpected immediate responsibilities that may throw you off course of your goal. For example, a serious medical condition or the death of a family member.
The world may not reward your actions the way you expected.
What happens to your twenty-year goal? Nothing, it goes down the drain.”
Source: UnLearn: A Practical Guide to Business and Life