Quotes about may
may anticipation end-of-life
How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
may deals
It is much better to learn to deal with the ills we have now than to speculate on those that may befall us.
may littles bullets
Some allow themselves to be overcome by panic, and others charge because they dare not remain at their posts. Some may be found whose courage is strengthened by small perils that prepare them to face greater dangers. Some are daring when facing swords but dread facing bullets; others dread bullets little but fear facing swords a lot.
may genius talent
There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent.
may principles surprise
By doing what our assailant least expects us to do, we may throw him completely off. ... what he usually least suspects is instant, violent counterattack, so the principle of aggressiveness is closely tied to threat of surprise. Jeff Cooper
may said
Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death Georges Bataille
may spirit martyr
We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs. George Whitefield
may might next
Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable; he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate... Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis... George Will
may anticipation lost
[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]! George Sand
may moral crossroads
Stay alert. The big moral crossroads in your life may not come labeled as such. George Saunders
may principles form
The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form. Jefferson Davis
may shows erase
When you take a picture of someone, never show it to them right away. If they don't like it, they may erase it. Jean Pigozzi
may twins kind
I may be a twin, but I am one of a kind. Jerry Smith
may mates deny
You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate. Jesse Jackson
may pay checks
I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do. Jennifer Lynch
may economics has-beens
Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find it much of a science either. Jean Chretien
may speak sometimes
Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so rare. James A. Baldwin
may definitions way
Women manage, quite brilliantly, on the whole, and to stunning and unforeseeable effect, to survive and surmount being defined by others. They dismiss the definition, however dangerous or wounding it may be-- or even, sometimes, find a way to utilize it.
may way lines
The many of us who attain what we may and forget those who help us along the line we've got to remember that there are so many others to pull along the way. The farther they go, the further we all go. Jackie Robinson
may spinoza woody
When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen. Christopher Hitchens
may compass having-patience
He that has patience may compass anything. Francois Rabelais
may purpose achieve
To die for others is the highest purpose a person may achieve. Christopher Golden
may use ugly
There are few plants that are ugly. It's how you use them that may not be pretty. Christian Louboutin
may enjoy
Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it. Gilbert Highet
may causes unseen
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown. Frances Wright
may fruit seduction
When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be. George Washington
may pilots philosopher
At best, the true philosopher can fulfil his mission very imperfectly, which is to pilot himself, or at most a few voluntary companions who may find themselves in the same boat. George Santayana
may remember bigfoot
Bigfoot may well be an extraterrestrial, because... remember Chewbacca? George Noory
may way criminals
A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him. George Mikes
may triumph study
[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it is probable, since the sensational triumphs of Einstein, that stellar astronomy and atomic physics are the only sciences which stand higher in popular estimation. G. H. Hardy
may chance
...chance may do anything. Fyodor Dostoevsky
may currents anthropology
I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time Franz Boas
may stories reputation
Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation. George Eliot