May Quotes

The goal of maximizing the welfare of all may be better achieved by an ethic that accepts our inclinations and harnesses them so that, taken as a whole, the system works to everyone's advantage.

I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time.

Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.

You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.

The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?

The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king.

Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.

Stop thinking about the audience and what they may be thinking of your music. Just play the music.

I believe in a democratic approach to fashion: if you feel good, then great. You may not look good, but it's not the problem.

A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.

He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?

Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.

Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.

Most mother-women give up whatever ghost of a unique and human self they may have when they 'marry' and raise children.

Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.

We may be joined these days more by the questions we have in common than by the answers we share.

Many people would say that A Tibetan monk, even in Lhasa, may be free while the ruler of China may not be free.

With the war in Iraq, he [Dalai Lama] feels that the causes of that lie maybe hundreds of years ago, and he says, "What we do now may have consequences far into the future that we will never see."

[Envy not for...] Whatever difference there may appear to be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and ill in all, that makes them equal.

I may be plucky, but I am not stupid.

Freedom means you're free to do just whatever pleases you; if, of course that is to say, what you please is what you may.

The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.

As I have found out, recognition has its upside, its downside and – you may say – its backside.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us.

Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.

Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece.

Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd.

You may be poor yourselves in material ways, but you have an abundance of gifts to offer when you offer Christ and the community of his Church.

May Christ the Savior give peace to Nigeria, where more blood is being shed and too many people are unjustly deprived of their possessions, held as hostages or killed.

May God welcome the dead into his peace, comfort the families and convert the hearts of the violent ones, who do not even stop before children.

Such self-denial 'may appear demanding,' but it will allow you, so to speak, to be and to breathe within the heart of the church.

A great challenge: stop ruining the garden which God has entrusted to us so that all may enjoy it.

I tell priests to flee from clericalism because clericalism distances people. May they flee from clericalism and I add: it's a plague in the Church.

Families have a citizenship which is divine. The identity card they have is given to them by God. So that within the heart of the family, truth, goodness and beauty may truly grow.

May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.

May the heart of Jesus be loved everywhere.

These lands are not always calm. We may well have more adventures ahead of us. But we shall meet them with high hearts.

My strength is breaking people down. I may not outrun or outsize you, but I will make you miss.

If my film does not do well, it really hurts me. But by God's grace, even if some of my films may not have done well, people have still liked my work in it.

Allow me, whom Fortune always desires to bury, lay down my life in these final trivialities. Many have freely died in longlasting loves, among whose number may the earth cover me as well.

Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent.

We may with advantage at times forget what we know.

The future struggles that it may not become the past.

Always shun whatever may make you angry.

A great man may commence life in a hovel.

Everybody who's been on television more than once wears in public an expression of fatuous affability. Because you may be addressed at any moment by somebody.

People may wish to say that the thing that is in conflict with my creativity is not Buddhism - that's fine.

Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be