May Quotes
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.
I may not have succeeded in halting the war, but I did secure the right of parliament to decide on war.
I think maybe we were just a little bit overdone. It was saturated. People may have gotten tired of us. We were everywhere, all the time.
Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to
Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.
However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.
Whatever a person's ultimate concern may be, it will have an enormous influence on everything else the person does or believes.
I supported this bill. I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and who have lived here even though sometime back they may have entered illegally.
The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon.
But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.
Angels dance only with You, Beloved and only before You do I bow in adoration. You may accept me or not but I will be at your feet forever.
If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical.
I only want to make movies I want to see. That may mean my career is somewhat limited, but that is my version of integrity. No matter how it performs or how it's received, I can be okay with it.
The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.
Only, as long as we're going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of no value.
When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live.
It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
Startups are very hard no matter what you do; you may as well go after a big opportunity.
I am one of the few people I know of who has argued in print that torture may be an ethical necessity in our war on terror.
Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation and compromise.
My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing . . . Long may our land be bright, With freedom's holy light; Protect us by Thy might, Great God, our King.
Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.
It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.
If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.
You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.
It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.
Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.
He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.
The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply.
There should be a stated day for commemorating the birthday of our Savior, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.
A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may have agreeable topicks for conversation when they are by themselves.
We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it.
Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.
Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.
What we look upon as our greatest unhappiness in a difficulty we are involved in, may possibly be the evil hastening to its crisis, and happy days may ensue.