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It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise. — Richard Rolle

Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but law, morality and leadership demand it. Without consistency, there is privilege. — Paul Craig Roberts

I do a great deal of research. I don't want anyone to say, 'That could not have happened.' It may be fiction, but it has to be true. — Jacquelyn Mitchard

Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. — Abraham Lincoln

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission. — James A. Garfield

If spectacle is lacking in everyday life, it may be because we have forgotten where and how to look. — Nel Noddings

Renunciation, or refusing to identify with that which one gathers (however precious it may be), is the ultimate doorway to knowing. — Sadhguru

If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any one, whosoever it may be. — Joan Of Arc

Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week. — Sandra Bullock

...not positive about the definition of existentialism but it seems like the opposite of nihilism in which case I suppose I may be. — Autumn

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be. — Norman Vincent Peale

Kindness may be the most difficult of virtues, but when I have encountered it, it has meant everything to me. — George Hodgman

It's foolish to fight the bond between you. You'd be better off going with it and letting the panties drop where they may. — Stacey O'Neale

It may be bad manner to appear here smoking, but it is far worse to disturb me when I am smoking. — Oscar Wilde

The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained. — Thomas Jefferson

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs. — Margaret Thatcher

It's who I am. It may be my undoing. But at least when I come undone, I'll be left with me. — Kurt Sutter

There grows in the North Country a certain kind of youth of whom it may be said that he is born to be a Londoner. — Arnold Bennett

Put fourth your best effort in whatever you do...it may be your one and only shot. — Jerry Gladstone

It doesn't matter how wealthy you may be in material things, what matters is do you know what to do with those wealth? — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

If it is true that you are what you eat, it may just as accurately be said that you are what you listen to. STEVEN HALPERN — Anodea Judith

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be. — Russell M. Nelson

It's both comforting and unnerving to learn that the most important person in your life may be someone you haven't met yet. — Chandler Baker

Self-confidence may be mistaken for egotism if it is not accompanied by humility of the heart. — Napoleon Hill

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction. — John Owen

Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God. — Robert Fulghum

Some people say that beauty is a curse. It may be true, but I'm sure I should not have at all minded being cursed a little. — Mary MacLane

While my insides may be rotten, I still like a good reason to kill someone. It has to be either business, personal, or out of sheer boredom. — Derek Landy

One may not go and find love, it must be embraced. — T.F. Hodge

It may be your soul that I love, but I'm pretty keen on its vessel, too. — Laini Taylor

It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia. — Richard Flanagan

While the circumnavigation of the solar system seems farfetched, it may not be once the problem of effective anti-gravitational control is solved. — Donald A. Wollheim

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it. — John Masefield

They may be hot and they may be nice but they're also men. And men can be idiots. So it isn't smooth sailing, honey, and it never will be. — Kristen Ashley

It may not be pretty, but sometimes justice has to be hard to keep the rest of us straight and safe. — Intisar Khanani

Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible. — Judith Butler

Politics. From the Latin poly, meaning many, and tics, meaning blood-sucking parasites. That may be incorrect, but it's not wrong. — Garon Whited

It's always what may not be shown that shows the most. Forbidden words are always the most eloquent. — Clive Barker

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It may well be that you are in a bad state, but to keep company with someone worse than you would allow to see good in yourself. — Ibn Ata Allah

Take caution when declaring war because you may believe it will be easy, but war will always end in despair. — Anonymous

UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless. — John Major

Healing cannot occur by refusing to listen to the truth, unsettling as it may be. — Slade Combs

Whatever may happen, it must be of new hope or of new courage to me! — Bram Stoker

Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop. — Joseph Chamberlain

But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Marijuana may not be addictive, but growing it is. — Ed Rosenthal

The devil may not be interested in preventing you from knowing the undone job. What he may do is to make you think it's somebody's job and not yours. — Israelmore Ayivor

Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water. — Thomas L. Masson

If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God ... — Bertrand Russell

Happy is he who hath one desire, if that one desire be set on Christ, though it may not yet have been realized. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There is a value in taking a stand whether or not anybody may be noticing it and whether or not it is a risky thing to do. — Teresa Heinz

The idea of a vision is revolutionary and ground breaking but achieving it may be back breaking. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

Indeed, it may be suggested that 'traditions' and pragmatic conventions or routines are inversely related. — Eric Hobsbawm

Genius may be a necessary precondition for creating a masterpiece but it's never a sufficient one. — James Shapiro

Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world. — Chris Bradford

Finish what you start, no matter how painful it may be. — Nastia Liukin

It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect. — Sherwood Anderson

Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability. — Werner Heisenberg

This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger. — Swami Vivekananda

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. — H.L. Mencken

It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries. — Kurt Vonnegut

I always want the last line to be really good, which may sound silly, but I want it to be a last pleasing line. — Elizabeth McCracken

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. — Jim Henson

In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods. — Napoleon Bonaparte

You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody ... — Bob Dylan

Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; 3. That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. — Anonymous

The Bible may be an arresting and
poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give
your children to form their morals. — Richard Dawkins

It might not be about perfection. Rather, it may be that that which is imperfect is that which has the most character. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess. — Alfred Austin

What we give the world, we have borrowed from no one; it is ours. It may be taken from us, stolen from us, but imitated? - never. — Julien Green

Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction to the previous book. — Stacy Schiff

The life of a woman may be divided into three epochs; in the first she dreams of love, in the second she makes love in the third she regrets it. — Prosper Of Aquitaine

Relying only on logic, on what can be factually established, may inform or intimidate, but it will rarely stir anyone into action or change. — Charlotte Beers

You're the queen, and it's the queen's house, and whatever Brigan may accomplish, he's highly unlikely ever to be queen. — Kristin Cashore

England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it. — Edmund Burke

As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't lack for creativity. — Richelle E. Goodrich

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false. — Pierre Bayle

Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or saying anything that deserves to be despised. — Marcus Aurelius

You may not see it, but even the lowliest servant has value, purpose, worth. Everyone has a place and none of those places should be diminished. — Lorraine Heath

The Force- always may it be with you. — Tom Angleberger

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be. — Gerrit Smith

The Prince's fool! Ha, it may be I go under that title because I am merry. Yea, but so I am apt to do myself wrong. — William Shakespeare

When I die I hope it may be said:
'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'. — Shannon L. Alder

Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be. — Swami Vivekananda

You may not be able to find love, but if you give, you will get it back in return. — Debasish Mridha

If it has to be done, a man - a real man - shoots his own dog himself; he doesn't hire a proxy who may bungle it. — Robert A. Heinlein

I object to conscription the way a lobster objects to boiling water: it may be his finest hour but it's not his choice. — Robert A. Heinlein

To be content with death may be better than to desire it. — Thomas Browne

- DON'T WORRY, IT WON'T BE FOREVER. - Good. - IT MAY SEEM LIKE FOREVER. — Terry Pratchett

Go where you will, if a shilling can there be procured, you may expect to meet with individuals in search of it. — John James Audubon

You know what may be the oddest thing about being a star? Stars have an effect on people. It's a responsibility, and it's frightening. — Andie MacDowell

We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not conservation - that interests us. — Henry Ford

However good an argument in philosophy may happen to be, it is generally not good enough. — David Berlinski

It may be ordained that we have many nights and days to follow, if full of peril, but we must go on, and from no danger shall we shrink. — Bram Stoker

(...) there's a rule that no question affecting the general public may be finally decided until it has been debated for three days. — Thomas More

It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier. — Robert A. Heinlein

The language of love may be universal, but it's not one of the options on an ATM machine. — Dov Davidoff

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. — Josh Billings

O my God, how true it is that we may have of Thy gifts and yet may be full of ourselves! — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon