May Quotes
You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.
Show me an 'easy person,' and I will show you a selfish one. Good-natured he may be; why not? since the disastrous consequences of his 'easiness' are generally shouldered by other people.
I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something - that may not be very clear to me right now - but that I will do.
The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.
No matter how important a man at sea may consider himself, unless he is fundamentally worthy the sea will some day find him out.
Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.
The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down!
Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
Something you consider bad may bring out your child's talents; something you consider good may stifle them.
In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.
A man was found dead covered in sprinkles, strawberry sauce and a flake. Reports said he may have topped himself.
It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies. The rise of Man may justly be described as an adventure in ideas.
We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.
Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.
Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.
I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
I cast a glance in my new admirer's direction. "You may call me Your Highness," I said. "Or Empress Beauty." He chuckled. I wasn't kidding.
A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.
But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you.
The more wisdom we know the more we may earn. Those who seek to learn more of their craft shall be richly rewarded.
I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf.
The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.
Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not go for a walk instead? But then I realise that to someone else it may not seem so ordinary.
Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers: the rest are mere jaywalkers
I'm actually very scared of sharks. I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was young, which may not have been compatible with that fear.
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.
Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.
Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate?
Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.
No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.
Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.
A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.
Though it were proved that there was never an Aryan race in the past, yet we desire that in the future there may be one. This is the decisive standpoint for men of action.
We may talk of saving antique linens, species, or languages; but whatever we are intent on saving, when a restoration succeeds, we rescue ourselves.
May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.
The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
