May Quotes

Actions may make you appear to be someone else, when people actually find out what you're doing.

No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.

What we think we are surely going to do, we don't do; and what we never intended to do, we may one day notice that we have done, and done, and done.

It's true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that I've devised just one more means of praising Art with the help of irony.

Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.

Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.

It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money.

The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.

Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.

Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, a magic place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place.

Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place in a church setting.

It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present".

Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the Stratigraphical Record."

Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.

In a political context of the utmost significance, ["freedom from fear"] recognizes a human right which, in a broad sense, may be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

May I examine my mind in all actions and as soon as a negative state occurs, since it endangers myself and others, may I firmly face and avert it.

It may seem unrealistic to think we can ever become free from hatred, but Buddhists have systematic methods for gradually developing a tolerance powerful enough to give such freedom.

When we face problems with compassion, sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better.

Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.

All religions are essentially the same in their goal of developing a good human heart so that we may become better human beings.

Just as compassion is the wish that all sentient beings be free of suffering, loving-kindness is the wish that all may enjoy happiness.

unless the direction of science is guided by a consciously ethical motivation, especially compassion, its effects may fail to bring benefit. They may indeed cause great harm.

Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it's there, the next day it may not be.

Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality are only contingent.

The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not be up to it.

The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.

I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.

While it may be true – and probably is – that not all Muslims are terrorists, it also happens to be true that nearly all terrorists are Muslim.

Sears is offering free $10 gift cards to the first few hundred shoppers. So that may have something to do with the early crowd.

The loss of a job may be the wake up-call needed to redeem the fire of your genius.

People love miracle stories and dramatic moments of transcendence or transformation, and may then pursue their own dramatic "awakenings."

Some of you may think that you are not of interest because you don't have access to classified information. You are mistaken.

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

We may see Michael Jackson's baby before we know the final outcome of this race for the House of Representatives tonight.

If my dog wants to know why I didn't feed him this morning, he may want to rethink walking out of the room when I'm telling him a joke.

Every Thanksgiving we feed the homeless so they may join us as we celebrate other people finding a home.

I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or reconstructing my website or whatever it may be. I just love putting creativity into a performance.

After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May 93.

There is also a distinct possibility that there are other actors ? whose names have not leaked to the press ? who may stand just as good a chance of landing the part.

All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.

If we blunt Russian efforts now to be aggressive, we may be pleasantly surprised by the policy options that become available to us, in terms of working with a better Russia.

Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.

Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all.

You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.

Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.

Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.

When I wrote Rick, I had the idea that I would take the plot of nearly every opera and turn it into a dark film, which is something I still may do.

By itself, practice does not make perfect. Those of us with a ten-year-old son practicing the trumpet may understand that.

. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.

Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are.