May Quotes
I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.
…She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but never her soul.
We may have more control, but my point is that, strictly speaking, Rosneft is not a state company. I think that this is an obvious fact, as a foreign investor has a 19.7 percent stake in it.
The sanctions may be imposed only by the decision of the UN Security Council. A unilateral imposition of sanctions is a violation of international law.
It is true that the role of the state in the Russian economy may be too big today, but from the fiscal standpoint, it is not always practical to do this in a falling market.
Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.
The older people carry the music in their body, in their mind. If they die, then that sound may be gone forever.
Clear, unscaleable ahead, Rise the mountains of instead From whose cold, cascading streams None may drink except in dreams
The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.
In short, whoever you may be, To this conclusion you'll agree, When every one is somebodee, Then no one's anybody!
A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.
But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more profound meanings for the critic, but at second-hand they can be of small service to you.
The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it does not entertain you it is a bad novel.
It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.
The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may be venial, digression is mortal.
A person may come into full harmony with the formless substance by entertaining a lively and sincere gratitude for the blessings it bestows upon him.
It may be that the ignorant man, alone, Has any chance to mate his life with life That is the sensual, pearly spouse, the life That is fluent in even the wintriest bronze.
The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.
And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned to beautiful results.
The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.
If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first; name later.
In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded.
The public interest may be presumed to be what men would choose if they saw clearly, thought rationally, acted disinterestedly and benevolently.
Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.
A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.
It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do. O that it were so! then my rest Would be indeed among the blest; I should for ever dream of you.
We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide, The ruins of the parent tree.
Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye 're sleeping.
Do not be naive. AIDS is not a curse from God to Africans or the black people. It is a tool to control them designed by some evil-minded scientists, but we may not know who particularly did it.
The post-war loss of Churchill may have damaged the Western world with the same impact as the post-civil war world was damaged by the loss of Lincoln.
Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth".
I've argued with the senators and congressmen I've talked to. You don't want to be too little too late. If you buy them at the right price, you may be buying two trillion of face value.
I mean, you may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing.
I think the biggest thing we need is to unclog the credit markets, and we may need another stimulus - if we do, it's - it should go to the lower and middle-income people.
Men may be way behind in creating choices for themselves, but have actually been quiet supporters of the choices women want for themselves.
Those whose purpose does not match yours are not wrong; they have their mission, and finding their own purposeful way may involve many detours and acts that seem destructive.
A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.