The gospel may not make a sow’s ear into a silk purse, but it will make everybody better if they live it. I’ve tried it. It stands the test. – Henry Eyring
There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before. – Henry David Thoreau
Even when you’re out with someone, you need to get out of your head. And you can try exercises by putting yourself in situations where you may not feel completely comfortable, like going to a gallery opening on your own. – Hill Harper
Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves. – Herbert Simon
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful. – George Boole
When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the ‘fig tree’ put forth its first leaves. Jesus said that this would indicate that He was ‘at the door,’ ready to return. – Hal Lindsey
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. – Henri Frederic Amiel
We may not find the answers. We may not find Bigfoot. We may not find a chupacabra. We may not find out who was responsible for killing JFK, but we’re going to keep looking, asking, probing. And one day – you know what? – we may get some of those answers. – George Noory
May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee’s conferences! – Gustav Krupp
The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don’t see the results. – Henri Nouwen
No matter how tough the meat may be, it’s going to be tender if you slice it thin enough. – Guy Fieri
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true. – H. G. Wells
We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate. – George William Russell
Whatever the details of union may be, there’s no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe. – Gerhard Schroder
Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth. – Giraldus Cambrensis
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert
For the president to resign now would be wrong. President Clinton may have debased himself with his behavior, but we shouldn’t debase the office with an impulsive overreaction. – George Stephanopoulos
All performances are different. I don’t think it’s necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You’re bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I’m very much a doer in my acting. – Ian Holm
They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don’t go in unless I’m convinced by the people who write them that they’re true. And if I’m wrong, then so be it. – Ian Hislop
We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to complete the stable group of another atom, and that an acid is one which can employ a lone pair from another molecule in completing the stable group of one of its own atoms. – Gilbert Newton Lewis
For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move the man legally, or to move the King. – Howard Staunton
France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are ‘made in America.’ – Helen Rowland
I really do believe the camera steals the soul. But that may be because I’m worried about my soul. I don’t have much of a soul to begin with; I can’t afford to lose much. – Hugh Laurie
I just think when you read something that’s magnetic that pulls you into it or resonates with you, whatever that may be, that’s always a positive thing. And you never know what that’s going to be. – Gloria Votsis
I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971. – Garik Israelian
It may be tripe, but it’s my tripe – and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act. – George MacDonald Fraser
I suppose I’m led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries – people whom I’ve admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right. – George Woodcock