May Quotes
Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong.
In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.
When you get to be my age, you don't buy green bananas because you may not be around to eat them.
We had 10 turnovers tonight. Each one gets worse as you go. It is like prior arrests: the 10th one may not have been that bad, but when you have had nine prior ones, it looks pretty bad.
Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been prepared with the help of a computer.
First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.
See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.
art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.
Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.
When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.
This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them - then men are old.
When I see these primitive effects coming into my pictures subconsciously, even though the perspective may be slightly out, I leave them in if it helps the general composition.
The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.
There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like a molecule in a cloud of molecules-it is a unique population.
You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware.
Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.
Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.
Youth is the spring-time of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and paralyze people with what we know.
Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.
In other things the knowing artist may Judge better than the people; but a play, (Made for delight, and for no other use) If you approve it not, has no excuse.
Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.
We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
There may come a time in the career of every sociologist when it is his solemn duty to raise hell.
Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in May And hive the the trifty sweetness for December!
So as grave and learned men may doubt, without any imputation to them; for the most learned doubteth most, and the more ignorant for the most part are the more bold and peremptory.
It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many.
Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.
And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered.
An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day.
Every man must be taken to be cognizant of the law, otherwise there is no saying to what extent the excuse of ignorance may not be Law carried. It would be urged in almost every case.
Society's emissions of carbon dioxide may or may not turn out to have something significant to do with global warming-the jury is still out.
In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land."
One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.
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.
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?