The UN may not be very effective but I am a fan of the idea of the United Nations. I have been there, I know the problems. To parody Winston Churchill: It is the worst system, except we don't have any other.
By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal.
The devil tempts that he may ruin; God tests that he may crown.
Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.
My strength is breaking people down. I may not outrun or outsize you, but I will make you miss.
Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.
Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.
I hear from patients who say their doctor said, 'If you want to take Vitamin C, go ahead and do it. It won't harm you, and it may do you some good. ' More and more physicians are getting convinced about the value of large doses of Vitamin C.
Greece is the home of the gods; they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. The gods were of human proportion: they were created out of the human spirit.
So little time we live in Time, And we learn all so painfully, That we may spare this hour's term To practice for Eternity.
Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.
As a slave one cannot undertake obligations without the consent of one's master. As a citizen one cannot undertake obligations unless the legal system of the State in which one holds citizenship permits one to do so. Neither a slave nor a citizen is a free person, although those who are held as slaves or citizens may well be free persons: it is just that their freedom is not respected.
In all cases where work is produced by heat, a quantity of heat proportional to the work done is expended; and inversely, by the expenditure of a like quantity of work, the same amount of heat may be produced.
You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.
Very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be.
A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.
If your concern is that I may be overcome with manly ardor and ravish you in a moment of weakness… I may. If you ask nicely.
If someone is depressed they tend to retreat within the inner circle of their comfort zone which in the longer term, may contribute to exacerbating a problem rather than soothing it and if not seeking to expand the comfort zone becomes the norm.
All dwarfs may be bastards yet not all bastards are dwarfs.
I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.