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Best Quotes About May (Top 100)
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It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime..."
Khaled Hosseini -
I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
Jane Austen -
Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.
Anne Bradstreet -
may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back
Lucille Clifton -
It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.
Jim Morrison -
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
Edmund Spenser -
There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
Tim O'Brien -
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.
Maya Angelou -
A great nose may be an index Of a great soul
Edmond Rostand -
I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.
Franz Kafka -
It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.
Miyamoto Musashi -
There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.
Harold Pinter -
Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??
Jim Morrison -
God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often
Stephen King -
Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.
Vladimir Nabokov -
You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us
Sappho -
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
Plutarch -
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded...
Alan Turing -
Pretty girls behave best when you ignore them. Of course, they have to know you are ignoring them, for otherwise they may not even know you exist.
Chetan Bhagat -
The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
Jules Verne -
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
Christopher Columbus -
Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction
William James -
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.
Meister Eckhart -
Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.
Alain de Botton -
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
William James -
A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.
Jane Smiley -
If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
Tacitus -
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
Jorge Luis Borges -
It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
In those days, we finally chose to walk like giants and hold the world in arms grown strong with loveAnd there may be many things we forget in the days to come,But this will not be one of them.
Brian Andreas -
I place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of God. If anything will advance the interests of the kingdom, it shall be given away or kept, only as by giving or keeping it I shall most promote the glory of Him to whom I owe all my hopes in time or eternity.
David Livingstone -
I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.
Clara Barton -
It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.
Dan Simmons -
The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.
Laurence J. Peter -
I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.
Jimmy Page -
Strange as it may seem, horror loses its power to frighten when repeated too often.
Michael Ende -
We’re conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware – beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.
Kent Nerburn -
You may have the universe if I may have Italy.
Giuseppe Verdi -
There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may see the sun; and those who are blind and cannot see him may feel his heat. There is an Eternal Sun, which is the source of all wisdom, and those whose spiritual senses have awakened to life will see that sun and be conscious of His existence; but those who have not attained spiritual consciousness may yet feel His power by an inner faculty which is called Intuition.
Paracelsus -
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
St. Jerome -
Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child's spirit; for such mutilation undercuts the life principle of trust, without which every human act, may it feel ever so good and seem ever so right is prone to perversion by destructive forms of conscientiousness.
Erik Erikson -
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
Edgar Lee Masters -
May God remind us daily-no matter what kind of obstacles we face-that we are loved and empowered by the One who brought the universe into existence with the mere sound of His voice. Nothing is impossible for Him.
Beth Moore -
live your life as if you may lose everything.
Mary Higgins Clark -
I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
John Quincy Adams -
The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.
Arnold Bennett -
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.
George Boole -
Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.
Karen Horney -
No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
Naomi Wolf -
This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
Oswald Spengler -
I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes such cupidity will send you scampering to your dictionary: I will call such behavior 'public service'.
Harlan Ellison -
There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
Freda Adler -
He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.
Cole Porter -
In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
William McKinley -
And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.
Annie Proulx -
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
Aaron Burr -
For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
Edmund Spenser -
Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell."
Erving Goffman -
Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone.
Elizabeth Fry -
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Margaret Thatcher -
May my silences become more accurate.
Theodore Roethke -
You may be whatever you resolve to be.
Stonewall Jackson -
Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps the more precious thing is the courage acquired through endeavor, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure'- grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.
Aung San Suu Kyi -
God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.
Paul Erdos -
May all your dreams but one come true, for what is life without a dream?
David Gemmell -
There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles.
Anne Bancroft -
There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.
Robert Browning -
Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not.
Eugene Wigner -
Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.
Dejan Stojanovic -
Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.
Thomas Moore -
We must never forget to pray, and to ask God to remember us when He is arranging things, so that we too may feel safe and have no anxiety about what is going to happen.
Johanna Spyri -
Customer needs may vary, but their bias for quality never does.
J. Willard Marriott -
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.
Eric Idle -
You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.
David Klass -
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
Alex Comfort -
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
William Bridges -
Golf tips are like aspirin. One may do you good, but if you swallow the whole bottle you will be lucky to survive.
Harvey Penick -
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
Stephen Hawking -
Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
Abigail Adams -
Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.
Erik Satie -
Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.
Ian Fleming -
I may have my faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.
Jimmy Hoffa -
The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.
Kingsley Amis -
For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free.
Amin Maalouf -
There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
Alain de Botton -
It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
John Galsworthy -
An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.
Norma Shearer -
Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.
Bernard Bailyn -
I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
Catherine the Great -
The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
Ralph Hodgson -
Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cooacters can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence of genes in the chromosomes. In a word the cytoplasm may be ignored genetically.
Thomas Hunt Morgan -
In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.
Hugh Sidey -
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
Jorge Luis Borges -
You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Thomas Moore -
One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one
Clifford Geertz -
May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.
Ruth Rendell -
What I've started I must finish. I've gone too far to turn back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward.
Michael Ende
Even More May Quotes
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Knowledge is a terrible burden. It may help you, but it might also destroy you.
James Patterson -
Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.
Algernon Blackwood -
However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation — to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our co-workers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.
Derrick Bell -
What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.
Harvey Cox -
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
Fred Astaire -
It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
M. Russell Ballard -
We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.
Edward de Bono -
Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love
Erich Segal -
Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be"ツ巴ut that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run the risk of turning away one honest petition.
Hugh Nibley -
From a little spark may burst a flame.
Dante Alighieri -
Your lifestyle - how you live, eat, emote, and think - determines your health. To prevent disease, you may have to change how you live.
Brian Carter -
Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete
Steven Johnson -
We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
Maria Weston Chapman -
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
Earl Warren -
Say not: "When I have free time I shall study", for you may perhaps never have any free time
Hillel the Elder -
Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit.
James Howe -
Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is not that - if it is not moral in its effect - then love is no more than an exaggerated form of pleasure.
Julian Barnes -
Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
William Cobbett -
you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for
Billy Joel -
The many of us who attain what we may and forget those who help us along the line we've got to remember that there are so many others to pull along the way. The farther they go, the further we all go.
Jackie Robinson -
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
Carl Sandburg -
The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.
Cotton Mather -
However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
Kate Millett -
What you perceive as "liberal" is my independence to choose what i do, with whom, and when. Moreover, it also means that i may choose not to do it, with anyone, ever.
Ana Castillo -
April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
Hal Borland -
The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you may have.
David J. Schwartz -
Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you
Sinclair B. Ferguson -
You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.
Anthony Eden -
A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.
Robert Ludlum -
A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart.
Edgar Rice Burroughs -
May your life preach more loudly than your lips.
William Ellery Channing -
I wish the state of enthusiasm I am now in may last, for today I FELT there is a God. I have been devotional and my mind has been led away from the follies that it is mostly wrapped up in.
Elizabeth Fry -
Be aware that you can truly help people only by aiding them to become what they are, not what you are. I have heard you say 'If I were you, I would do this, or that.' 'I' am never 'you'—and my solutions may not be yours.
Anne Perry -
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.
Elmore Leonard -
May all that is unlived in you blossom into a future graced with love.
John O'Donohue -
I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
Nat King Cole -
Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.
Joan Baez -
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
Jorge Luis Borges -
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
Henry Drummond -
I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time.
Franz Boas -
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
Tryon Edwards -
A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
Lewis Mumford -
Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
William Ames -
That when we live no more, We may live ever
Anne Bradstreet -
However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.
Muriel Rukeyser -
I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.
Samuel Goldwyn -
God has given us many faiths but only one world in which to co-exist. May your work help all of us to cherish our commonalities and feel enlarged by our differences.
Jonathan Sacks -
Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.
Henrik Ibsen -
Introverted feeling types have a wealth of warmth and enthusiasm, but they may not show it until they know someone well. They wear their warm side inside, like a fur-lined coat.
Isabel Briggs Myers -
Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.
Marge Piercy -
Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.
Norman Cousins -
Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.
William Ernest Henley -
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
Bernard Berenson -
Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
Mark Van Doren -
There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.
Jan Karon -
You have to remember. . .that for this little boy whom you have met, his life is just as important to him, as your life is to you. No matter how insufficient or how shabby it may seem to some, it is the only one he has.
Jonathan Kozol -
You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.
Bronislaw Malinowski -
If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.
Muriel Spark -
The porcupine, which one must handle gloved, may be respected, but is never loved.
Arthur Guiterman -
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
Nia Vardalos -
Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves.
Kathleen Raine -
To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
Benjamin Jowett -
Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.
Dave Freudenthal -
I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.
Joseph de Maistre -
We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.
Stephen Charnock -
God arranges everything for us, so that we need have no more fear or trouble and may be quite sure that all things will come right in the end.
Johanna Spyri -
But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.
David James Duncan -
It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.
Mary Stewart -
You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter woods and find the buds which will resurrect that beauty in another May is to partake of continuity.
Hal Borland -
Look at it this way: There are many here among us for whom the life force is best represented by the livid twitching of one tortured nerve, or even a full-scale anxiety attack. I do not subscribe to this point of view 100 percent, but I understand it, have lived it. Thus the shriek, the caterwaul, the chainsaw gnarlgnashing, the yowl and the whizz that decapitates may be reheard by the adventurous or emotionally damaged as mellifluous bursts of unarguable affirmation.
Lester Bangs -
Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.
Bryan Appleyard -
A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
Ann Plato -
It may be in the cultural particularities of people â in their oddities â that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.
Clifford Geertz -
We may be surrounded by some greater reality, to which we are oblivious. And even if we could somehow perceive it in some entirely new way, it is extremely doubtful we would be able to comprehend what we perceived.
Louis Sachar -
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
Iris Murdoch -
As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr -
Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.
Arthur Erickson -
Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.
Evan Esar -
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
Fanny Burney -
Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.
Ian Buruma -
But I could never have done it," he objected, "without everyone else's help." "That may be true," said Reason gravely,"but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
Norton Juster -
Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.
Eileen Caddy -
It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.
Pierre Bayle -
Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.
Burt Bacharach -
A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much good, and almost anything he may say may do a great deal of harm. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. He is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
Harold MacMillan -
Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.
Judith Guest -
Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.
Sofia Kovalevskaya -
Technology is an inherent democratizer. Because of the evolution of hardware and software, you're able to scale up almost anything. It means that in our lifetime everyone may have tools of equal power.
Sergey Brin -
My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.
William Trevor -
Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
Bob Woodward -
Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
Horace -
Even if I did speak Irish, I’d always be considered an outsider here, wouldn’t I? I may learn the password but the language of the tribe will always elude me, won’t it? The private core will always be ...hermetic, won’t it?
Brian Friel -
Every once in awhile we may fall on our face, but we insist on doing what we wanna do.
Cliff Burton -
What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.
Jim Thompson -
Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.
James Robertson -
The development of willpower -I will, I won't and I want- may define what it means to be human.
Kelly McGonigal -
Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger Across a crowded room.
Oscar Hammerstein II -
God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.
Sigrid Undset -
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
John Masefield -
Stain my eyes as I may, on all sides all is black.
Helen Hunt Jackson -
We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar.
Oswald Spengler -
People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
Lewis H. Lapham -
An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.
Irving Kristol -
It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
Giordano Bruno -
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
Benjamin Cardozo -
It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.
Charles Williams -
It may be said of them [the Hollanders], as of the Spaniards, that the sun never sets upon their Dominions.
Thomas Gage -
The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.
Edward Thorndike -
I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.
Brian Aldiss -
I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It.
Charles Barkley -
Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.
Jodie Foster -
The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining may have been his highest purpose. (introduction to Gladiator, Book League Monthly, 1930)
Philip Wylie -
For it ne sits not unto fresh May Forto be coupled to cold January.
John Lydgate -
I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.
Cathy Freeman -
There are various art forms we may or may not have talent for, may or may not have time for, and we may or may not be able to express ourselves in, but we ought to consider this fact-that whether we choose to be an environment or not, we are. We produce an environment other people have to live in. We should be conscious of the fact that this environment which we produce by our very 'being' can affect the people who live with us or work with us.
Edith Schaeffer -
When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?
Margery Allingham -
A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.
James Boswell -
One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.
James Brady -
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno -
We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.
Amy Vanderbilt -
In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.
Alberto Moravia -
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
Izaak Walton -
Because if one has an image, however dim and romantic, of a journey's end, one may, in the end, surely reach it, after no matter how many detours and deceptions and abandonings of hope. And hope could never have been entirely abandoned, even in the worst days.
Margaret Drabble -
It may not be written in any book, but it is written - You can't go back, you can't repeat the unrepeatable.
Charles Wright -
Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge.
Carl Reiner -
We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.
Joseph Howe -
Well may we say 'God save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General'.
Gough Whitlam -
Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place.
Barry McGuire -
As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?
Thomas Gray -
Golf may be a hussy, but I love her.
Don Herold -
The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.
William Ames -
Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in one another.
Caleb Carr -
Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
George Steiner -
Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.
Bryan Magee -
I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.
Agnetha Faltskog -
It's our contention that equity may be in the money, depending on where the liabilities lie.
David Tepper -
I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.
Bill Budge -
I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.
Carl Yastrzemski -
Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
James Harvey Robinson -
Like faith, marriage is a mystery. The person you're committed to spending your life with is known and yet unknown, at the same time remarkably intimate and necessarily other. The classic seven-year itch may not be a case of familiarity breeding ennui and contempt, but the shock of having someone you thought you knew all too well suddenly seem a stranger. When that happens, you are compelled to either recommit to the relationship or get the hell out. There are many such times in a marriage.
Kathleen Norris -
Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.
Thomas Haynes Bayly -
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
John Dryden -
In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the poem, painting, play or novel does not immediately engage one's surface interest then it has failed. Whatever else it may or may not be, art is also entertainment. Bad art fails to entertain. Good art does something in addition.
Brigid Brophy -
If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.
Roger Caras -
I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.
Kenneth Anger -
The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.
Arthur Erickson -
He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks.
Joseph P. Kennedy -
Sometimes God calls a person to unbelief in order that faith may take new forms.
Christian Wiman -
But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested.
Arthur Cayley -
It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.
Esther Dyson -
A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.
George Jean Nathan -
Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.
John Abbott -
Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all.
John Gardner -
Spring is a true reconstructionist.
Henry Timrod -
No department or locality may, or will be allowed to, interfere in the affairs which should be administered by [the SAR] on its own,
Jiang Zemin -
You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
William Congreve -
May God .. let me strive for attainable things.
Pindar -
One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.
Kathleen Norris -
It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else.
H. M. Tomlinson -
We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
Bergen Evans -
I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.
Adelaide Anne Procter -
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
Leon Blum -
The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.
Claude Bernard -
A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
F. L. Lucas -
one may be my very good friend, and yet not of my opinion ...
Margaret Cavendish -
Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out.
Criss Jami -
The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By using them, one may draw any conclusion he pleases and that is why these series have produced so many fallacies and so many paradoxes.
Niels Henrik Abel -
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnable, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.
Randolph Bourne -
In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.
Arthur Henderson -
Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain, you may be doing some good work.
Bernice Johnson Reagon -
Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all God's commandments, making conscience even of little sins and little duties.
Joseph Alleine -
While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.
Charles Osgood -
I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.
James Boswell -
It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
Samuel Alexander -
If it hadn't been for the videocassette, I may not have had a career at all.
Kurt Russell -
I may not be a great actress but I've become the greatest at screen orgasms. Ten seconds of heavy breathing, roll your head from side to side, simulate a slight asthma attack and die a little.
Candice Bergen -
There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.
Walt Kelly -
For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.
Christopher Ricks -
Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting.
Charles Dudley Warner -
The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.
Frederic Raphael -
We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.
Kenneth Burke -
May your first word be adventure and last word love.
Bruce Feiler -
The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.
Eustace Budgell -
The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it.
Eden Phillpotts -
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
Walter Scott -
Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.
Alfred Whitney Griswold -
A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.
Augustine Birrell