May Quotes

Criticism is concerned with evaluation. There may be evaluative principles implicit in this or that form of theory, but theory in and of itself is not prescriptive.

My definition of likeable may be different from other people's. That's not traditional likeable. Sympathy is a different thing [to define it].

Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

My body may have been abused, but it certainly hasn't been neglected.

I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me that an ancient cure may be the solution to a modern problem.

When you give away large sums of money, you can cause as much damage as you may do good.

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

I don't suppose I ever entirely release a fish. I may not eat it, but that does not mean I take nothing from it before I let it go.

You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.

The Gulf War may not have occurred in the actual global space, but it did occur in global time. And this thanks to CNN and The Pentagon.

May I remind you that the bombs that were dropped by the B-2 plane on the Chinese embassy  or at least that is what we were told  were GPS bombs. And the B-2 flew in from the US.

if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

I am not saying that I am different, but I don't have emotional pain. I may be angry and I may be peaceful, but no emotional pain.

Fashion may renew itself every six months but one thing remains the same: bouncers always wear black.

May we understand that fear of failure is worse than failure itself

May my tears run just as far, that my love might never know that one day I cried for him.

The universe always helps us fight for our dreams, no matter how foolish they may be.

If you think you can't do something, you can't. But if you think you can, you may be surprised to discover that you can.

When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.

Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.

you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.

I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.

If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

I am not much of a hand at love songs, you see I mingle metaphysics with even this, but perhaps in this age of Philosophy that may be excused.

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

When merciless ambition, or mad zeal, has led two hosts of dupes to battlefield, That, blind, they there may dig each other's graves, And call the sad work glory.

Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character of all life and being.

Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high and low.

There seems is predominantly a white person's drug addiction epidemic, so that's why you see white people in our film, Warning: This Drug May Kill You.

One of the problems with technology is that no photograph, as superb and outstanding as it may be, will ever be as satisfying as the most middle-rate painting.

Give blood, but you may find that blood is not enough.

So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may feel delight.

Statistics may be defined as the discipline concerned with the treatment of numerical data derived from groups of individuals.

He would have lied to himself as facilely as an alcoholic lies to himself to justify the 10 a.m. tumbler of vodka : it may be early here, but in Baghdad it's almost evening.

Whatever the police or politicians may tell us, this is a violent and threatening place. Living here is dangerous.

What may be on the surface looks like one thing but it's often a much larger problem.

Management and union may be likened to that serpent of the fables who on one body had two heads that fighting each other with poisoned fangs, killed themselves.

A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.

When people are in acute crisis, residential care may be needed, but this should not be seen as a medical issue.

Worrying is the interest paid on a debt you may not owe.

What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own?

Things may never be the same again.

Anything we do to fight misery and ignorance and poverty, no matter how imperfect it may be, is still better than doing nothing at all.

May your crust be crisp and your bread always rise!

Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger, And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved.

A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.

When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off.

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.