We may be up against a stone wall, but we don’t have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to. – William Glasser
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. – William Jennings Bryan
Activism, to me, I don’t know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me. – Tommy Chong
It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal. – Saskya Pandita
Asian food is very easy to like because it hits your mouth very differently than European food does. In European food, there may be two things to hit – maybe sweet and salty, maybe salty-savory, but Asian kind of works around, plus you have that distinct flavor that’s usually working in Asian food. – Tom Colicchio
I may have been sexy, but I was covered up total. There was something left to the imagination. – Suzi Quatro
I know many people who are actually queasy about the idea that their kids may harbour sporting ambitions. – Sebastian Coe
There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though – it’s been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments. – Stanley Schmidt
As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect. – Steve Kanaly
We need to ask whether, in the long term, some individuals with a history of psychosis may do better off medication. – Thomas R. Insel
People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don’t think I’ll ever run out of things that I want to write about. – Tad Williams
Consider a 15- or 20-year fixed-rate mortgage instead of a 30-year, if you can afford the monthly payments – they may not be as high as you think. – Suze Orman
From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left. – Vitruvius
If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don’t respect him. – Wil Wheaton
Every thought and word that a novelist thinks or writes is part of that castle constructed from sands on the beach of Me, including the turret or rampart or moat he may have thought or written on behalf of someone or something else. – Steve Erickson
Your credit score affects the interest rates you’re offered on credit cards and loans, can be used to vet your job application, and in some states may influence your insurance premiums. – Suze Orman
May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea. – Swami Vivekananda
Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven’t been before, show me sights I haven’t seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before. – Therese Fowler
An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings of war when it cannot avoid them; a state which has lost its independence may find at least some compensation in the fact that its protector procures for it peace with its neighbours. – Theodor Mommsen
In the depths of the moor, the peat may be seen riven like floes of ice, and the rifts are sometimes twelve to fourteen feet deep, cut through black vegetable matter, the product of decay of plants through countless generations. – Sabine Baring-Gould
There has to be a measure of faith. That’s what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of. – Wentworth Miller
The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich. – Stanley Hauerwas
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. – William Hazlitt
When people see me knitting, I tell them I’m a knitter. Not the sort of knitter they may have run into before, but a passionate, constant, deliberate knitter. I knit everyday, all the time, everywhere I go. – Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way. – Sabine Baring-Gould