May Quotes

Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.

Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?

At best, the true philosopher can fulfil his mission very imperfectly, which is to pilot himself, or at most a few voluntary companions who may find themselves in the same boat.

The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

Stay alert. The big moral crossroads in your life may not come labeled as such.

I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so.

He who has read Kafka's Metamorphosis and can look into his mirror unflinching may technically be able to read print, but is illiterate in the only sense that matters.

We have to be vigilant about how the Trump administration may try to divide us from each other.

I am convinced the next major attack against the United States may well be conducted by people with Asian or African faces, not the ones that many Americans are alert to.

Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success.

There may be some tough times here in America. But this country has gone through tough times before, and we're going to do it again.

I've changed my style somewhat, as you know. I'm less - I pontificate less, although it may be hard to tell it from this show. And I'm more interacting with people.

German people are essentially pacifists. Many still remember the experience of World War II. And they may not have seen Saddam Hussein as evil a person as a lot of other people have.

Facts may speak for themselves.

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

I only wish, while I am a servant of the public, to know the will of my masters, that I may govern my self accordingly.

In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.

In the Vatican, if you don't get something new done quickly you may not get it done at all.

When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling on and not going swimmingly for his side.

No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development.

Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death

The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.

I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!

I am relieved. May I now have the truth?

Failure may be just a step toward your eventual goal.

There are clear differences between and some- and there may be protective factors in a female brain.

I think my own bias is that there may be something wrong with the timing and the connectivity between regions rather than pointing to one particular spot in the brain.

We all hope that TV will bring something added to the book - not just an audience - it will bring an interpretation and skills that you may not have as a writer.

We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for what we do, we have hell anyway.

Pigs may like honey, but that doesn't stop it being sweet.

No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.

Our faith in Mathematics is not likely to wane if we openly acknowledge that the personalities of even the greatest mathematicians may be as flawed as those of anyone else.

Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it.

If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.

The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.

The philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres.

You can free things from alien or accidental laws, but not from the laws of their own nature. You may, if you like, free a tiger from his bars; but do not free him from his stripes.

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.

The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.

There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.

Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.

When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.

... my today's self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.

Medicine may be defined as the art or the science of keeping a patient quiet with frivolous reasons for his illness and amusing him with remedies good or bad until nature kills him or cures him.