May Quotes

The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.

I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.

What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.

Balloonists have an unsurpassed view of the scenery, but there is always the possibility that it may collide with them.

The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it.

In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them.

Religion as a vital issue is dead except on paper, and whatever beauty-baiting the future may witness will be the work of greed and trade, and not of honest cosmos-facing.

You have to be willing to put everything you've got towards the project. That to me is very important. And it may not be part of the fad, being the clichéd kind of film that's going to be successful.

There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.

A coward may die many times, but a brave man dies only once. If I die for you, I won't consider it death but love.

But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.

Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself.

... we may remember what the Romansthought a cultivated person ought to be: one who knows how to choose his company among men, among things, among thoughts, in the present as well as in the past.

A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.

Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing.

he who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.

Thee may tell Aunt Janet from me that she might as well try to stop the stars in their courses as to try to stop a love affair.

Love is not enough; intelligence is not enough; powerful strength is not enough. You may put everything on one side of the scale, but if you are missing gratitude, you shall lose.

We meditate so that our minds can be sharp and alert. We chant mantras so that your souls may be ignited like candles. We walk in the light of this beauty.

It is not possible to make a certain evaluation...that cancer may be arrested if 'caught early'.

Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.

To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.

Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not get his licence returned when it falls due.

May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that I know what's going on. I'm going on, and the Labour government's going on.

It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.

Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?

Nothing you say can ensure that the other person will get it, or respond the way you want. You may never exceed his threshold of deafness.

[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others.

If the national mind of America be judged of by its legislation, it is of a very high order ... If the American nation be judged of by its literature, it may be pronounced to have no mind at all.

There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.

Harrison Ford may be getting old, but he can fight like a 28 year old man.

I’m really boring, man. Like, I’m really dull. And I think people may think that I have this glamorous, fun lifestyle, but it’s pretty dull. But that’s what I like.

The trouble with men is that they are mean-they may mean, but they don't move.

But all of us-at home, at war, wherever we may be-are within the reach of God's love and power. We all can pray. We all should pray. We should ask the fulfillment of God's will.

May the sun never set on American baseball.

May we Americans all live up to our glorious heritage.

I think in most companies you're surrounded by the past. You may have a Web site or archives or a lobby that sort of shows off your work of the past. The future is not as tangible.

Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.

This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.

Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.

I may not look it, but I can be a very patient guy. And killing time is one of my specialities.

I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.

I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.

When you kill a little time, you may be murdering opportunity.

The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions.

Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.

Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

Women or mothers in middle age or mid career have valuable life experience and may offer an untapped recruitment pool.

Atmosphere is a silent music. It has its effect upon the listener, exciting or peaceful, whatever it may be.