May Quotes

Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won't kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically.

Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group.

The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

We are entering a period of human history that may provide an answer to the question of whether it is better to be smart than stupid.

Any little issue - Miss Universe, or whatever it may be - [Donald Trump] is completely unpredictable, he'll go off into outer space.

As for organs, traits, etc., being "for" something, the notion may be a useful shorthand, but shouldn't be taken too seriously, if only because of the ubiquitous phenomenon of exaptation.

Okay. Look, why don't you take care of the half a million things you've been letting dangle in Roarke's Empire of Everything?" "Catchy title. I may use it one day.

Vending Machine: "This product has no known nutritional value and may cause irritability or wakefulness in some individuals. Please enjoy your selection and your day." Eve: "Up yours.

They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.

The life-force may be the least understood force on earth.

We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth.

Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that laughter is an antidote to apprehension and panic.

It may be old hat, but I see no reason to close off what is for me a fruitful subject of inquiry, especially so for one, like me, who is very much interested in creating stories and novels of ideas.

The persona in my stories may be truer to my "real" self than any alleged objective, factual "I" that I could replicate for the purposes of storytelling.

While I'm working on a book, I rarely read anything more than The New York Times. Which may have the long-term effect of flattening my style.

A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed by genius.

Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207

There are newsweeklies that are dead. Some may still be walking, but they're dead.

People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.

The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically, as a mosiac of allusions to Old Testament prophecy.

We stand separate from the world because of our gifts. Never forget that, because you may be sure the world never will.

I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.

Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.

On Mars, the crumbling remains of ancient civilizations may be found, mutely testifying to the one-time glory of a dying world.

Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.

I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make a modern poet. Be poignant, man, be poignant!

You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke.

China is working on a similar system for its future carriers. Donald Trump may want to go back to 1920s-level technology, but the rest of the world isn't.

A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined.

You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.

However time or circumstances may come between mother and her child, their lives are interwoven forever.

There will come a day A hazy day in May Or a storm in mid-December When you need someone Just to have a little fun Then I could be the perfect girl for you.

Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

Care may acquire wealth, which, when acquired, care must guard and worry about.

This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.

You may be sure that in this new international system, the American citizen will count for precious little.

She who laughs last may not invariably laugh best, but she does laugh.

Very well. You may help me exterminate the Society of Wizards.

We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over the passage of time, but that's the implacable judgment of feeling.

I may be biased, but I think the cover art is stunning.

suicide can be used as a very cruel weapon, you know. It can be the ultimate revenge, leaving a scar that a living person may carry to the grave.

A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.

You may have heard of me.

When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.

Paste may be the last great American music magazine left.

Toyland, toyland . . . once you pass its portals you may never return again.

I see my poems as interlinked. No poem gives an answer. It may offer other questions, it may instigate other questions that then become poems.

In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.

Although the elusive 'cure' may be a distant dream, understanding the true nature of cancer will enable it to be better controlled and less menacing.