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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something - that may not be very clear to me right now - but that I will do.
Farrah Fawcett
Hope
Me
Cancer
Will
Holding
Some
Something
Onto
Clear
Got
Very
May
Reason
Now
Right
Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.
Felix Dennis
Success
Good
Sports
Win
Shoes
Own
Nothing
Good Ideas
Nike
Possesses
Athlete
Athletes
Facilitate
Like
Ideas
Sneakers
May
Them
Races
Who
Pair
I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how well trained his guards may be. If he violates the will of the people, he shall be eliminated.
Ferdinand Marcos
People
Care
Will
President
Guards
Wear
Shall
He
Well
How
His
Trained
Brave
May
Many
Medals
Eliminated
Violates
History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.
Fernand Braudel
History
Three
Rapidly
Slowly
Divided
May
Move
Movements
Moves
Appears
Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
Fidel Castro
Life
Nature
Light
Matter
Incredible
Tens
Combination
Always
Passed
Been
Years
Subjected
May
Us
Teaches
Radiation
Billions
Expressions
Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.
Francesco Guicciardini
Work
You
Yourself
Fear
Power
Few
Ruin
Hoped
Parties
Always
Condemn
Perpetual
Discover
Did
Revolutions
May
Often
Regain
Gain
Succeed
Your
Defeated
I don't think of myself as a hard man, but other people may think otherwise. You know you have obligations to do the best you can for people, for your job, for your shareholders... it all has to be balanced between the hardness and the softness.
Frank Lowy
Best
Myself
You
Man
Obligations
People
Job
Think
Other
Softness
Otherwise
Shareholders
Between
Know
Balanced
May
Your
Hard
Hardness
Easter may seem boring to children, and it is blessedly unencumbered by the silly fun that plagues Christmas. Yet it contains the one thing needful for every human life: the good news of Resurrection.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
Life
Christmas
Good
News
Good News
Every
Easter
One Thing
Boring
Silly
Seem
Resurrection
Contains
Unencumbered
May
Human
Children
The One Thing
Human Life
Fun
Thing
Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It enables the diabetic to burn sufficient carbohydrates so that proteins and fats may be added to the diet in sufficient quantities to provide energy for the economic burdens of life.
Frederick Banting
Life
Diabetes
Energy
Added
Fats
Economic
Proteins
Insulin
Quantities
Diabetic
Enables
Provide
Cure
Burdens
May
Diet
Burn
Carbohydrates
Sufficient
Treatment
The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.
Friedrich August von Hayek
Natural
Progress
Some
Exceeded
Bound
Course
Arouse
Sciences
Limits
Times
Expectations
Modern
Any
May
Suspicion
Modern Times
Much
Natural Sciences
Suggestion
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
G. M. Trevelyan
God
Waiting
Impossible
Young
Enough
Tell
Someone
Never
Been
Very
Person
Done
May
Anything
Cannot
Young Person
Centuries
Ignorant
Thing
It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.
Garth Risk Hallberg
Work
Made
Whatever
Doubt
Think
Virginia
Virginia Woolf
Kind
About
Around
Got
How
Were
Fretting
Amazon
Reviews
Sitting
May
Woolf
Tolstoy
Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.
Gene Robinson
Truth
God
Faith
Best
World
Will
Understanding
Our
Our World
Some
Comprehension
Unchanging
Outside
Partial
Always
Exists
Fixed
May
Dynamic
Process
Flawed
Body
Ever-Changing
Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely cynicism.
Geoff Mulgan
Love
Lost
Whatever
Rich
Once
Plenty
Intrigue
Moral
Moral Compass
Favour
Steely
Had
Contain
Powerful
Most
Biases
Protect
Governments
May
Themselves
Who
Cynicism
Compass
He was as fresh as is the month of May.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Month
He
Fresh
May
The right I claim is that of every human being to speak what he believes to be the truth to whomever he may meet on his way.
George A. Moore
Truth
Human Being
Speak
Every
Meet
Way
Claim
He
His
His Way
May
Human
Being
Whomever
Believes
Right
I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.
George Bernard Shaw
Ownership
Community
Every
Section
Destroy
Possession
Point
Highest
May
Order
Want
Enjoyment
Raised
A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.
George Crabbe
Great
You
Hurt
Lie
Will
Only
Bother
Like
Make
Dry
Still
Fish
Fret
Itself
Frightful
Die
May
Cannot
Land
Fling
Keep
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
George Eliot
Kindness
Angry
Cruelty
Unkindness
Would
Would-Be
Direct
Were
Effect
May
Ignorant
A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.
George Muller
Blessing
Evil
Live
World-Wide
Increasing
Neglected
Rightly
Gulf
Plunge
Directed
Shall
Perdition
Misdirected
Onward
Volume
Blast
Reaching
Blight
Till
Leave
Years
Trained
Child
Roll
May
Influence
Influences
Which
Eternal
Mankind
We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
George Orwell
Class
Will
Lose
Sinking
Nothing
Further
Dreadful
Feared
Struggles
Without
Sink
Get
May
Middle
Where
Middle Class
After
Working
Working-Class
Belong
They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.
George Savile
Money
Will
Everything
Well
Opinion
Very
Suspected
May
Who
For the president to resign now would be wrong. President Clinton may have debased himself with his behavior, but we shouldn't debase the office with an impulsive overreaction.
George Stephanopoulos
Behavior
President
President Clinton
Would
Would-Be
Wrong
Himself
His
Clinton
Office
May
Impulsive
Now
Resign
I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
George Washington
Walk
Drawn
Scarcely
Part
Conduct
Precedent
Any
May
Which
Ground
Hereafter
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.
George Whitefield
God
Son
Faithful
Whatever
Believe
Carnal
Though
Would
Objections
Comprehend
Abraham
Knew
Him
Learn
Revealed
His
Up
Offer
May
Cannot
Might
Notwithstanding
Reasoning
Fully
Therefore
Believed
Suggest
Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. History, however, may judge it to have been his missed opportunity to be one.
George Will
Health
History
Judge
Opportunity
Victory
Care
Will
President
Mark
Obama
Hopes
Missed
Him
Health Care
However
Been
His
May
Famous
Transformative
Barack
Barack Obama
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