May Quotes

Thus every dog at last will have his day - He who this morning smiled, at night may sorrow; The grub today's a butterfly tomorrow.

Ability may get you to the top, nut it takes chracter to keep you there - mental, moral, and physical.

Success may result in winning, but winning does not necessarily mean you are a success.

All change may not be progress, but all progress is the result of change

Congress in the immigration law gives the president the power to restrict or suspend the entry of people he may deem appropriate.

To some degree we all find life difficult, perplexing, and oppressive. Even when it goes well, as it may for a time, we worry that it probably won't keep on that way.

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.

You do [jazz] because you love it and hope many some others may as well. You do this because you need it.

Trust may be in short supply after years of disappointments. However, improvement could come in a bat of an eye!

Ringo Starr may not have much of a voice, but when he sang a song on a Beatle album, it had its own special charm.

The world may hold startling developments and shocking unknowns.

[If President Bush is right about democracy in Iraq] I may, and I don't know if I can physically do this, implode.

They may want to insist that corporations are people but corporations are certainly not Americans.

Novelists may be able to seek advice from readers and editors, but in the end, it is up to them to get the book right.

Unless the digital divide is narrowed soon, the United States may be headed to the class warfare of a century ago, the last time the economy changed so fundamentally. It won't be pleasant.

If you get something for nothing, part of you may be pleased, but part of you moves your hand to give something back.

Just don't let go or you may drown.

No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience. To read is intimate. It's almost masturbatory.

...accepting the compromise of the way we have been, the way we are, and the way we will likely be...may we live together in unwavering love and good health, amen.

Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

Careful observers may foretell the hour (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show'r. While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more.

The Internets distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.

I think that I feel that I have no choice but to operate under the illusion, which may be a delusion, that we can somehow get past the destruction that we have brought and that we are causing today.

...living more sustainably means living happier, more balanced and potentially more fulfilled lives than most of us 'choose' to live today, whatever Jeremy Clarkson may have to say about that!

I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out.

I think it's all to the good that a writer shouldn't be too famous. Because, in a country where a writer may be famous, he may be pandering to the mob, celebrity and so on.

Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.

I wonder if I have woven through dreams the sexual strife. I don't think so. But after all, my business is to weave dreams. I suppose I may be allowed to choose the material.

I am attracted to fantastic writing, and fantastic reading, of course. But I think things that we call fantastic may be real, in the sense of being real symbols.

The reason the contracts are so long is because actors are very spontaneous; we may want to do Shakespeare one day and be Porky Pig the next!

Drawing a comparison to football, it could be said that the Spanish economy has, during this legislature, into the Champions League of the world economy, however bad that may seem to some.

It is clear that no one will achieve any kind of objective through the force of violence, and that no one will make Spaniards yield to threats of guns, whoever may be holding them

I may appear to be an eccentric old man... But this is a free choice.

The essence of leisure is not to assure that we may function smoothly but rather to assure that we, embedded in our social function, are enabled to remain fully human.

No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.

I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways findtheir Account in the Speculation of the Day.

I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.

But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.

Though a man cannot abstain from being weak, he may from being vicious.

I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian may die.

When you start a collection, you have to push yourself to limits that may make you uncomfortable.

You may feel singled out when adversity enters your life. You shake your head and wonder, 'Why me?'

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.

Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree.

So you may look lightly upon a Scripture and see nothing; meditate often upon it, and there you shall see a light, like the light of the sun.

Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town.

The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation.

Things may move slow in the academic world, but I continue to move at a pace relative to the urgency of the moment, looking forward to the time when the academic world can catch up.

To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence.

As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works.