All flowers are not to be picked; some are meant to stay rooted so their beauty may continue to sing praises unto nature.
Make my breast transparent as pure crystal, that the world, jealous of me, may see the foulest thought my heart does hold.
La solitude est une belle chose; mais il faut quelqu'un pour vous dire que la solitude est une belle chose.
Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.
No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.
You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
May we be strengthened with the understanding that being blessed does not mean that we shall always be spared all the disappointments and difficulties of life.
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the relations of this country to Spain offer no ties of gratitude or of blood.
The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions.
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!
There was a lot of playing by myself, wearing last year's Halloween costume and wandering around the yard talking to myself - which may account for my fondness for doing different voices.
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inactions, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury
We worried for decades about WMDs – Weapons of Mass Destruction. Now it is time to worry about a new kind of WMDs – Weapons of Mass Disruption.
