May Quotes

The words in this book are all phooey. When you say them, your lips will make slips and back flips and your tongue may end up in Saint Looey!

May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly - until at last the darkness is no more.

We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.

With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.

May my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if its sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are right they are not young

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

If you feel a bump on page one hundred, it may be you went off on page fifty.

It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.

God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.

Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.

You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.

Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.

A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.

The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out of alignment with life.

Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. This is why we may also call it Presence.

Oprah [Winfrey] and I share a similar consciousness of spirit that is manifested in what some may call God or simply Spirit but others call it the Godhead manifestation of karmic virtue.

If you cannot accept an external event immediately, then some kind of resistance will come up. And there may be some external events you cannot accept at all.

In certain extreme cases, medication may be necessary. But it is given far too often, too easily, and too readily. Millions of children already are on tranquilizers, for example, and that is absurd.

The issue of innovation never interested me personally, since I believe it may lead to a place where people don't paint anymore.

To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult so let's avoid him.'

I want to find those stories that we may talk about at the barbecue or when we're playing bid whist or with our cousins watching TV, but you don't see it on television. Certainly it's perspective.

I cannot stress this enough - if you try to install an HDTV in a non-HDTV compatible house, you may tear the space-time continuum.

I love travel. I love to go spend time in new places. And even though I got horribly sick in Thailand, and it was the sickest I may have ever been in my life, I still loved the trip.

If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.

Pain creates movement, and movement controls balance. If the opponent does not feel any pain you may be forced to break bones.

I'm always nervous about singing...always. It may be one of the only things I sweat about.

You feel that no matter what's said in the music or how pointed it may get, the most you can wish for is that it plants a few seeds.

I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.

I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.

My soul, be satisfied with flowers, with fruit, with weeds even; but gather them in the one garden you may call your own.

England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it.

Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.

A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.

In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.

Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.

It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.

A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.

For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.

For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.

Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that earth lie light Upon thy tender limbs, and so good night.

it may be said of me by Harper & Brothers, that although I reject their proposals, I welcome their advances.

If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old disguises.

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.

Women who love only women may have a good point.

Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.

I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.