May Quotes

My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

How and when to try new things and to what degree are critical... Too soon and too radical a change and you may not master anything or develop a style.

We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion.

A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.

Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.

The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.

Though very poor, may still be very blest.

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.

The helicopter has never achieved much success and . . .may be classes with the ornithopter as obsolete.

I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all out of my system before I was 18.

Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

I enjoy the process of writing collaboration so there's some stuff that already that may happen and then some stuff that I'm initiating that I may write on my own.

It's exciting and encouraging that the spirit of exploration is alive and that students see it occurring in their lifetime. These may well be the children that make it a reality.

You may think you are going against a certain style and then guys don't fight like they always fight. People change in the ring.

Because judges may not issue advisory opinions, judicial nominees may not do so either, especially on issues likely to come before the court. That rule has always been honored.

It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.

Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth.

Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.

We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others.

Architecture may be frozen music, but it melts.

For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.

Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same.

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.

Make the determination to abide in Jesus wherever you are now or wherever you may be placed in the future.

Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.

The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his ... genius.

Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.

Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it may die in an hour of a single unwise word.

There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.

May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends. [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares.]

Nothing aids which may not also injure us. Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn His neighbor's roof arms his hands with fire.

Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.

That you may be beloved, be amiable.

If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.

Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.

They come to see, they come that they themselves may be seen. [Lat., Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipse.]

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer, But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb, We trample fear beneath our feet, and live Without a fear of evil yet to come.

She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.

We beg one hour of death, that neither she With widow's tears may live to bury me, Nor weeping I, with wither'd arms, may bear My breathless Baucis to the sepulchre.

Time is like a ship which never anchors; while I am on board, I had better do those things that may profit me at my landing, than practice such as shall cause my commitment when I come ashore.

He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.