Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Hamilton

If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution, it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority.

Adolf Hitler

Your birth may be common, But death must be history.

Adelaide Anne Procter

I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.

Abraham Lincoln

We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.

Abraham Lincoln

Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.

Allan Sherman

You may be wondering why I went from over there to over here. Well, that was choreography.

Allan Bloom

It may well be that a societys greatest madness seems normal to itself.

Ann Coulter

Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.

Nancy Pelosi

My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.

Paul Merton

Maybe there's a perception of me as grumpy old bugger who suffers from depression. It's a total misconception. I don't think of myself as any grumpier than the next person. I'm not even grumpy first thing in the morning.

Sid Haig

Was I a successful father? Maybe not. Was I a successful husband? Probably not. Was I a successful actor? Probably not.

Jason Lee

Yeah I'll do it. No I won't do it. Maybe I'll do it. Seven year contract.

Brian Lane

We're comfortable with what we've accomplished so far. Maybe we won't be as tight going into the game.

Wolfgang Ketterle

Maybe if you win a Nobel Prize in economics, you make a lot of money by giving talks... but not in my area.

Anna Netrebko

When I started, my teachers told me that I had to sing 'Mozart, Mozart, Mozart.' I said, 'No, I want to sing all the other stuff.' If you do not push yourself, you will stay the same. Maybe some singers are happy with that, but I have to move, I have to do something new always.

Anna Netrebko

When I am on stage, I give everything. Maybe because of that, I won't last long, but I don't care.

Helen Oyeyemi

I don't think anything can help me socially, to be honest: I have this terrible personality. I don't really know how to describe it... maybe I'll go with surly.

Zoe Sugg

When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'

Whitey Ford

I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.

Van Morrison

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

Yayoi Kusama

I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

Yayoi Kusama

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

Adam Weishaupt

My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.

Adam Smith

That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.

Ada Lovelace

But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value; just as logic has its own peculiar truth and value, independently of the subjects to which we may apply its reasonings and processes.

Ada Lovelace

Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.

Ada Lovelace

I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand about the many connections and relations which occur to me, how the matter in question was first thought of or arrived at, etc., etc.

Abraham Maslow

We may define therapy as a search for value.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.

Algernon Sidney

We cannot distinguish truth from falsehood, right from wrong, or know what obedience we owe to the magistrate, or what we may justly expect from him, unless we know what he is, why he is, and by whom he is made to be what he is.... I cannot know how to obey unless I know in what, and to whom; nor in what unless I know what ought to be commanded; nor what ought to be commanded unless I understand the original right of the commander, which is the great arcanum.

Algernon Sidney

If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.

Alfred North Whitehead

You may not divide the seamless coat of learning,

Alfred North Whitehead

It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.