Best may & sometimes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I believe, and I may be wrong, the system sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate, but they don't do that in a lot of cases.”

Believe May Sometimes I Believe Cases Prison

Author:Amaury Nolasco

“Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective.”

People Want Needs Looks May Sometimes Political Missing Perspective Psychological Haiti

Author:Jean-Bertrand Aristide

“Sometimes directors may not give you words, you know? They may not talk at all! You've just got to use your radar to figure out how you can get to the center and not lose yourself, but still be directed at the same time.”

Knows Giving May Stills Sometimes Use Loses Figures Directors Radar Losing Yourself

Author:Faith Prince

“Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.”

Thinking Life Wells May Book Sometimes Done Stories Lovers Pages Book Lover

Book:Tiger Lily

Source: Tiger Lily

“I shouldn't be saying this, high treason really, but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting a brilliance that may not really be there.”

Ifs May Sometimes Wonder Accents Brilliance Fooled Treason

Author:Stephen Fry

“O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their punishment certain; and that innocence, though oppressed by injustice, shall, supported by patience, finally triumph over misfortune!And, if the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it—the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.”

Source: Five Gothic Masterpieces: The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Great God Pan, Frankenstein, Carmilla, and Dracula

“Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.”

May Sometimes Hard Remember Voice Accepting Guilt Internals Friendly Reminding Messing Up

Book:The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World

Source: The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World

“Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.”

Writing Kind May Sometimes Found Conversation Expected All Kinds Eloquence

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.”

Thinking Feels May Littles Sometimes Artist Business

Author:John Ruskin

“I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.”

“And all the bustle of departure - sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating - just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of coming destiny.”

May Sometimes Chance Destiny Travel Inspired Departure Be Inspired Bustle

Author:Madame de Stael

“I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?”

Thinking May Sometimes Dream Body Wonder Impossible Impossibility

Book:Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations

Source: Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations

“Sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my subconscious, the way a dream might. Even in those paintings where an image unconsciously develops, a certain kind of experience is usually necessary in order to perceive it.”

Way Kind May Sometimes Dream Might Certain Order Painting Perception Perceive Subconscious Chords

Author:Robert Motherwell

“There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart, to give vent to one's feelings, to make confessions; from the instinct of economy which sometimes encourages a writer to make good use of even the smallest crumbs of his life, so that he may have one more book to publish; or again from vanity and self- satisfaction.”

Giving Heart May Important Book Self Sometimes Reason Facts Use Feelings Economy Notes Instinct Satisfaction Vanity Confession Smallest Publish Diaries Crumbs Self-satisfaction

Author:Alberto Moravia

“There are some people whom you have in life who have the capacity for real, passionate commitment to something, and sometimes you may be passionately committed to the same thing.”

People May Real Sometimes Commitment Capacity Passionate Committed

Author:Warren Beatty

“In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance.”

Men Needs May Sometimes Reason Body Spiritual Dies Sin Grace Sick Accounts Medicine Saint Spiritual Life Confession Sacraments Penance

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.”

May War Sometimes Nations Fate Position Depends Fortresses

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Just as we may learn from our successes (how to do it) so also can we learn from our mistakes (how not to do it). It just isn't in the cards that anybody should get by forever without making mistakes and perhaps sometimes making costly ones.”

Should May Sometimes Mistake Forever Cards Making Mistakes Learning From Our Mistakes

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-.”

Men May Stills Sometimes Past Form Joy Journey Childhood

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.”

May Sometimes Matter Values

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminatedever.”

People May War Sometimes Enough Names Too Much Achieve Peace War Achieving Peace

Book:From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

“Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root. CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon; Or, Many Things in a Few Words Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.”

May Sometimes Light Sound Moral Materials Roots Wit Cures Maturity Disorder Remedy Trunks Few Words Reformers Antithesis Caleb

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Sometimes I think some of my fellow novelists who have not worked in television and film are very naive about this process. They get an offer and there's the dump truck full of money and they sign it, they cash the check and then they're not involved in the series. They may get invited to the premiere and they come out of the premiere looking like all of their children had just been gassed, with a stunned look on their face because everything has been changed.”

Thinking Looks May Children Has Beens Sometimes Film Faces Process Changed Television Involved Offers Fellows Series Checks Novelists Cash Invited Naive Truck Dump Stunned Premieres

Author:George R. R. Martin

“Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.”

May Sometimes Causes Majority Injustice Pursuit Minorities

Book:The Undiscovered Paul Robeson , An Artist's Journey, 1898-1939

Source: The Undiscovered Paul Robeson , An Artist's Journey, 1898-1939

“I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational and manly than for men who occupy the most honorable and gainful departments and are rising in reputation and wealth, publicly to declare their unsatisfactoriness by becoming fervent Advocates in the cause of Christ, & I wish you may give in your Evidence in this way. Such instances have seldom occurred, therefore they would be more striking and would be instead of a "Cloud of Witnesses.”

Source: The Papers of James Madison

“Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.”

Men Writing May Sometimes Clear Degrees Endure Forgotten Fortunate Alchemy

Book:Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

Source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

“Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers.”

May Sometimes Next Sound Half Wind Flower Hair Sitting Stores Thee Spares Hook Careless Reap Poppies

Author:John Keats

“Sometimes I say some things people may think are just outlandish, but I'm going to have the last laugh.”

People Thinking May Sometimes Lasts Laughing Outlandish

Author:Riff Raff

“What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist will sing you a song as loud and off-key as will a blacksmith, for he knows that morals are too often diagnostic of prostatitis and stomach ulcers. Sometimes he may proliferate a little too much in all directions, but he is as easy to kill as any other organism, and meanwhile he is very good company, and at least he does not confuse a low hormone productivity with moral ethics.”

“The false man is more false to himself than to any one else. He may despoil others, but himself is the chief loser. The world's scorn he might sometimes forget, but the knowledge of his own perfidy is undying.”

Men World May Sometimes Might Forget Chiefs Loser Scorn Perfidy

Book:A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary

Source: A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary

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