When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.
We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.
There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud.
April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
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.