May Quotes

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.

There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments.

Only time - whatever that may be - will tell.

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.

I’m just going to do what I want now, and let the chips fall where they may.

The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate

We are stronger than we think. We have emotional, spiritual and even physical resources at our disposal. We may get knocked down, but we don't have to stay down.

As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect.

I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won't die with my music still in me.

I never learned the secret handshake. That may be one of the reasons I've grown to love English soccer.

I may yet move [from Nashville], and where would I move if not Texas or New Mexico? I couldn't afford a home in California. I need to travel out of there occasionally.

Even though there's reasons to try things that may or may not work, it's still a real intimate way to finish the song with everybody right there in the band just locked in.

It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready... we'll just have to see.

I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi - the least omission may distort the whole picture.

Hence the saying: One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you now Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.

Sometimes because a woman is beautiful, she's not encouraged to be more, although she may have so much more to offer.

Introverts .. may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas.

He who serves God with what costs him nothing, will do very little service, you may depend on it.

It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly.

Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason.

It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.

It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.

Childcare is a huge issue for young women whose work may require them to leave their families for weeks at a time.

Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

May God be with you and the Devil be crushed underfoot as you march for Peace on the skulls of our enemies, for goodwill, security, and a quality of life that comes only with Democracy

May nothing wind you up, nothing affright you; everything comes and goes. God, still, just there; through patience all will be achieved. If you have God, you lack nothing: God alone will do.

[Last words:] My Lord, it is time to move on. Well then, may your will be done. O my Lord and my Spouse, the hour that I have longed for has come. It is time to meet one another.

I think there are a lot of myths about MS, and it may have affected my career.

Someday they may cure MS, that idiot thing. It gets in there and they can't get it out.

I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy but I don't - life is a blessing.

If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades.

Cara burst into a hearty laugh. She clapped Richard on the back as he walked passed. "I like her, Lord Rahl. You may keep her.

We may pretend we are basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors.

People whose concept of ancient history is the first series of Star Trek may be treated with patience, because it's usually not their fault they were reduced to getting their education from school.

Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.

The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.

It may well be that the pictures of Courbet, Manet, Monet and their like contain beauties which escape the notice of such old romantic heads as ours, already streaked with silver threads.

It's not so much that I'm an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god

Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience

Reform, that we may preserve.

Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

Hebe's here, May is here! The air is fresh and sunny; And the miser-bees are busy Hoarding golden honey.

America is a new country, and maybe patriotism helps Americans create unity, since it is a melting pot. But nationalism in Europe has a strong history, as you may know.