- Night
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
May Quotes
Words shaped by possibility and doubt.
These may quotes range from an honest admission of lingering insecurity carried from childhood, to a scientific point about how measurement affects what can be known about the past. Another notes that even the clearest concept only applies within limits. Related reflections continue in our April quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Pain
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The structure of 'March' was laid down for me before the first line was written, because my character has to exist within Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women' plotline.
- Picture
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I like working in children's books because it gives rise to such a variety of jobs. One month it may be a picture book, the next a retelling, the next a play, a short story or the start of the next novel.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My friends call me 'George,' 'GM,' or 'Georgia.' But most people who know me from when I was little call me 'Georgia May.'
- Enough
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
- Freedom
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
- Liberty
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
- Ground
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
- Free
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
- God
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.
- Sad
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.
- Great
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
- Disease
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Football is entertainment in which the audience is expected to delight in gladiatorial action that a growing portion of the audience knows may cause the players degenerative brain disease.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Constitution
- |
- Nov 07, 2020