May Quotes
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.
I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.
Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world
Whatever call a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.
It may be very well to do this and that for good fellowship; but it will never do to lose the friendship of God in order to keep on good terms with men.
Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.
I'm a bull on Berkshire Hathaway. There may be some considerable waiting, but I think there are some good days ahead.
The limitation of the vlog format is that it may seem to give people enough, when they actually have no real autonomy.
We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
Rugby may have many problems, but the gravest is undoubtedly that of the persistence of summer.
Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.
Spring's an expansive time: yet I don't trust March with its peck of dust, Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers, Nor even May, whose flowers One frost may wither thro' the sunless hours.
Before I begin, may I ask how old you are?" "You may ask." "How old are you?" "It's none of your business
No matter how their leaders may have tried to skimp on money, no one, not even the politicians, who talked themselves red, white, and blue in the face, skimped on effort.
One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects
Body cameras help to record what happens. It may not be the golden ticket, the golden egg, the end-all-fix-all, but it helps to paint a picture of what happens during a police stop.
Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think.
The troops may whine and moan, but when they meet the standard, there's a sense of pride.
Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality, we can feel immortal for a few hours.
Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.
A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.
Men of principle are sure to be bold, but those who are bold may not always be men of principle.
I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.
O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh! When we are dead, my best beloved and I, close well above us, that we may rest forever, sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.
New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.
Prayer is not a device for getting our wills done through heaven, but a desire that God's will may be done on earth through us.
When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.
To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.
The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means that each of us is free to go our own way, even if the ways some of us may choose to go seem sinful or shocking to our fellow citizens.
If you're selling something on Craiglist, it's never a good idea to end the description with, May have lice.
and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.
It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.
Acknowledging and accepting whatever stuff you may have to let go comes easier when you love yourself.
If your short-term goals are too high, you may give up too soon. If your long-term goals are too low, they may not give you enough enthusiasm to drive you over the bumps in the road along the way.
We may be finding that in some blacks, when the choke hold is applied, the veins or arteries do not open up like in normal people.
What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.
The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.
Talent may get someone off the starting blocks faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it won't count for much