Quotes 10101 till 10120 of 10716.
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You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.
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You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.
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You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
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You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.
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You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue - agree with him.
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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
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You may encounter many defeats but you must not be defeated.
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You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don't do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate self-defeating feelings while undercutting your finest, most productive ones.
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You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.
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You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them.
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You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
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You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.
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You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ''Failure'' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
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You may have as many words as you please, – only I can’t stay to hear them.
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. III -
You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
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You may have your suspicions, your fears, you may even believe there is something, somewhere, terribly, drastically wrong, but because someone else is in charge, because there is a part of the system above you which you don't know, you don't question it, you even distrust your own doubts.
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You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it.
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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
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