#may

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#end #institutions #just #like #may

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#all day #break #bubble #day #evening

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#before #chuckle #eighty #longer #make

Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the more atrocious things. By going really far afield into a completely fake world, maybe there's a chance to make things resonant somehow - or in this case, truly terrifying. To make it as bad as the real stuff that's happening. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#atrocious #bad #case #chance #completely

They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable. ↗

— Philip Hone

#inevitable #may #murder #rendered #situation

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn. ↗

— Thomas Hood

#burn #great #great men #leave #letters

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments. ↗

— Sidney Hook

#before #even #his #legitimately #may

A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#convention #convinced #democracy #direct #exposure

Thousands of people come to LA every year, and some of them just disappear. Somebody gets them. In the States around 100,000 people vanish each year. I don't know what that means. Maybe there's something that just pulls 'em out. ↗

— Tobe Hooper

#come #disappear #each #every #gets

When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#affected #because #being #dad #father