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“You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil.”
Source: Aesop's fables
“You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.”
“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!”
Source: Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women
“You may show what atomic groupings are necessary in order that life may emerge out of matter, sentience out of life, or intellect out of sentience; but you cannot thereby reduce life, let alone sentient life and intellectual life, to terms of matter; you have only succeeded in tabulating the material coefficients of things which are not themselves material. I do not mean that Mr Russell would not be able to put up a case against this argument; I only complain that he simplified his task by pretending to misunderstand what the argument was; by assuming that it was merely physical when as a matter of fact it is metaphysical.”
Source: Caliban in Grub Street 1930 [Leather Bound]
“You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right.”
Source: Wisdom and Wit from Poor Richard's Almanack
“You may sometimes be tempted to say, ‘Will my influence make any difference? I am just one. Will my service affect the work that dramatically?’ I testify to you that it will. You will never be able to measure your influence for good.”
“You may sometimes wonder: Why am I doing this? What's it all for?...If we like what we are creating, we don't have to know why. Sometimes the reasons are obvious, sometimes not. And they can change over time. It could be good for any of a thousand different reasons. When we're making things we love, our mission is accomplished. There's nothing at all to figure out.”
Source: The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“You may soon discover that my life does not deviate greatly from any other normal person’s life despite my final destination. Maybe then, my dearest reader, leaving prejudice at the door, you will see the sanity in me…and perhaps the madness in yourself.”
Source: Psycho Author: A dark comedy...or is it?
“You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come.”
Source: Morning and Evening
“You may speak freely but there are often consequences.”
“You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!”
“You may stand in the presence of gods, but the earth will still claim your body, proof that no knowledge and no ecstasy can escape the gravity of mortality.”
“You may start small but don't stay small”
“You may steal my abstract designed frame but remember that, it is but a copy. I will design another one even better than the one! Because the original is in my mind.”
Source: The Inspirer, Book of Quotes
“You may still be here tomorrow...but your dreams may not.”
“You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.”
“You may study with the highest teachers, but you will find no one but yourself teaching you. You may travel the world over, yet find nothing but yourself, reflected the world over. So if you now find yourself in a cell, take heart that of all the teachers in the world, out of all the places in the world, you still have with you the only ultimate ingredient of your journey: yourself.”
“You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.”
Source: Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists
“You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.”
“You may succeed in silencing me, but that silence comes at a price, you may succeed in silencing one man, but the howl of protest from around the world will reverberate, Mr. Putin, in your ears for the rest of your life.”
“You may suddenly be enlightened by an unexpected light! What prevents hope from being completely lost is the genius and grace of life to create surprising help almost from nothing! But remember that life decides to give this help based on your faith and determination!”
“You may suffer for a while and be disappointed at some point in time, but do not give up. At the appointed time, the disappointments you endured shall pass.”
Source: The Precious Gift of Time: Inspirational Quotes and Sayings
“You may suppose that perhaps this Walter T. Wallace found his destiny in food and passed down to his progeny a legacy like that of the great Colonel Sanders. The folks here in Wallace County would love to be able to tell you this is so. But no, like their granddaddy, the Wallace men were thievin’ crooks, always with a scheme ready to separate the weak from their hard-earned money.”
Source: Midnight Beneath the Magnolia
“You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.”
“You may swallow a speaker
You may swallow a microphone
Your voice may be heard
But if you have no love in you
nothing will be learned.”
“You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.”
“you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing”
Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel
“you may take it from me, that however hard you try - or don't try; whatever you do - or don't do; for better, for worse; for richer, for poorer; every way and every day: the parent is always wrong. So it is no good bothering about it. When the little pests grow up they will certainly tell you exactly what you did wrong in their case. But never mind; they will be just as wrong themselves in their turn.”
Source: Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood
“You may take my purse; but I cannot have my moral Self annihilated. The purse is any Highwayman's who might meet me with a loaded pistol: but the Self is mine and God my Maker's; it is not yours; and I will resist you to the death, and revolt against you ...”
Source: On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
“You may take shelter under my branches and take of my fruit. But take only what you need as others will find it their home.”
“You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears.”
“You may talk about Free Love, if you please, but we are to have the right to vote. Today we are fined, imprisoned, and hanged, without a jury trial by our peers. You shall not cheat us by getting us off to talk about something else. When we get the suffrage, then you may taunt us with anything you please, and we will then talk about it as long as you please.”
“You may talk about religion and speak about the Gospel, and say we have got the truth and the plan of salvation, and we have got the authority of the Priesthood; but if we are not honest, it does not amount to anything; for neither God nor honorable men love dishonesty. We must, therefore, be an honest people.”
“You may talk about Sweden, you may talk about Rome,
but Rockville Center's Floyd Patterson's home.
A lot of people said that Floyd couldn't fight,
but you should have seen him on the comeback night.”
“You may talk if you wish," she went on absently, "but do it quietly. Now, you go, Master al'Vere. This is a sickroom, not a gathering hall. See that I am not disturbed.”
Source: The Eye of the World
“You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling
“You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.”
“You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.”
“You may teach a man with deeds of kindness more than thousands of knowledge.”
“You may teach those who want to learn; however, you cannot teach those who intend to teach you.”
“You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart.”
“You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.”
“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows what they might do because of it, because of your words.”
Source: The Night Circus
“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul”
Source: The Night Circus
“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.”
“You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you never, never can convince me that the I is not an eternal reality, and that the spiritual is not the true and real part of me.”
“You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you.”
Source: Villa Incognito
“You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.”
“You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.”
“You may think God's solution to sin is axiomatic, but if you practice sin you only force others around you into wanting more evidence because your evidence is just words and not evidence of a changed life”