When you're young, and you head out to wonderful, everything is fresh and bright as a brand new penny, but before you get to wonderful you're going to have to pass through all right. And when you get to all right, stop and take a good long look, because that may be as far as you're ever going to go.
We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.
Let us go to Calvary to learn how we may be forgiven. And then let us linger there to learn how to forgive.
Well, you may not know this, but there's things that gnaw at a man worse than dying.
An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve an absurdity, or a contradiction. It is a truth; or it is an error: it can never be a crime or a virtue.
There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.
I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike!
You may imitate, but never counterfeit.
Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.
This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.
With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable. . . Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness.
There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.
Be patient when it seems things are not going right and may never be right again. Accept that what is yours will come to you in the right way at just the right moment.
George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.
I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
. . . moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on matters relating to the conduct of life which we never normally doubt, though we know that it is possible, absolutely speaking, that they may be false.
When it comes to making love, I may not be the best, but I'm damn gouda.
There are things in the Old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible Word of God, and receive its teachings as inspired by the Holy Spirit.
