If you're on the other side from me, you're not simply wrong or ill-informed or mistaken. We don't share the same country, the same values. You may not be the same kind of an American I am.
Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich.
Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.
The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority.
I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
My definition of likeable may be different from other people's. That's not traditional likeable. Sympathy is a different thing [to define it].
Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.
While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.
Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature
An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.
Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.
You may be embarrassed about the way you looked and the wacky clothes you wore when you were young, but normally, at least it's hidden in a box in the attic.
May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends. [Lat. , Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares. ]
Election is always to sanctification. Where there is no visible fruit of sanctification, we may be sure there is no election.
This is a steady, ceaseless process, impossible to contain as long as the economy driven by the endless accumulation of capital. The system may prolong its life by slowing down some of the activities which are wearing it out, but death always looms somewhere on the horizon.
Great men may die, but there ideas won't.
When a stray animal crosses your path, it may be as close to God as you're going to get in this lifetime.
Indecision may or may not be my problem.
You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?
Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.
