[John] McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious.
A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with.
Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.
Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to begin to think about the inevitable genetic revolution in medicine that is going to allow us to advertently change our genes over centuries and even decades.
Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple statement of fact. "I don't have any whiskey," may be a fact but it is not a truth.
I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how it may be used.
The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.
[F]riends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.
Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.
To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.
Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.
I am driven by a greater force than I can resist. I believe that force has its own reason and its own morality even if they may never be clear to me while I am alive
Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence, even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious.
Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same.
Surely, no one hoped for so many things. Hold the flowers close to your heart; they may someday bloom.
There's evidence that one of the Paris attackers may have entered Europe posing as a refugee.
Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.
It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.
The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.