May Quotes

After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances…I may be an orange peel.

you may call a person vain, and they will smile; you may call them immoral, and they may even feel flattered - but call them narrow-minded and they have done with you.

An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful thrill he feels himself.

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.

Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.

From here on in, Harry, I may be as woefully wrong as Humphrey Belcher who believed the time was ripe for a cheese cauldron.

They may not look dangerous, but if angered [bowtruckles] will gouge out human eyes with their fingers, which, as you can see, are very sharp and not at all desirable near the eyeballs.

There may be luck in getting a good job-but there's no luck in keeping it.

Indeed you did your best...I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible old men. ~ Gandalf to Pippin

I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought.

Together we will take the road that leads into the West, And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest.

Tomorrow we may come this way, And take the hidden paths that run Towards the Moon or to the Sun

Gandalf, dwarves and Mr. Baggins! We are met together in the house of our friend and fellow conspirator, this most excellent and audacious hobbit—may the hair on his toes never fall out!

If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain’s son Oakenshield, may your beard grow ever longer,” he said crossly, “say so at once and have done!

But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes. Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else ... may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds.

American democracy and the Soviet system may peacefully exist side by side and compete with each other. But one cannot evolve into the other.

May I take your vein for a moment? I find myself... curiously depleted" Okay, right. Talk about your Johnny-on-the-spots: He locked them in and all but tore off his arm and threw it at her.

The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.

The game of life is good, though all of life may be hurt, and though all lives lose the game in the end.

Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually, we don't like it very much.

Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.

When it comes to comedy, they always say, "Jackée, whatever comes to your mind." But heaven forbid I can't think of something. It's never happened yet, thank God. I may knock on wood.

May we all co-operate and join this war on pirates.

Every one's abilities may be increased or strengthened by a kind of culture.

Though a song may race by in a minute and a half, every aspect of it is calculated and intentional.

We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.

Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.

Our actions - and inaction - touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet.

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.

Devotion means who you are should merge with what you are doing. Otherwise, whatever your activity may be, it will not be of any great significance.

If we are not sensible about this, in our ideas of wealth creation we may completely destroy the planet - which we are already doing in many ways.

Tomorrow exists even though I may not exist in it.

Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened.

When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.

James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them.

Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.

To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.

Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.

I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my heart forbids me to reverence.

We may never know in this life why we face what we do, but we can feel confident that we can grow from the experience.

You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand, but you play it. And I've played it.

The man was not merely very human; he was humanity. And I reflected that it is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true.

Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.

No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't

The authorities in the United States confiscated private gold holdings in the Depression of the 1930's. They may seek to do so again in the Depression of the 1990's.

Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears.

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life