May Quotations | Page 2

Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone.

I want to say unequivocally the Queen is magnificent. She is the enduring force, she is the glue that makes everyone feel good. She is beloved. I would rue the day when she may not be here.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.

Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically.

Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.

You know, you may not be born in Puerto Rico, but Puerto Rican is definitely born in you.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

When families observe a later, deeper stage of cult involvement they may find it necessary to consider the involvement of a professional such as myself in an intervention effort.

I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.

I may have exaggerated a bit when I said that 80 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs. What I meant to say was 75 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs

I may have had a crush on Zac, but we are like brother and sister, so nothing would ever happen.

Obviously, the goal is to maximize my own potential, whatever that may be. That's all I focus on.

Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.

A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.

There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud.

You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.

I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.

We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.

Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.

One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.

I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.

I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.

The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important.

In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically.

I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.

It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.

And she was fair as is the rose in May.

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.

The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing

You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find - you're never sorry you were kind.

The buying of time or space is not the taking out of a hunting license on someone else's private preserve but is the renting of a stage on which we may perform.

Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

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

God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.

What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.

I like multinational companies. They may have 40 to 60 percent of their engines of growth in the United States, but I do like the diversification of being more global.

The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished.

Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be declining slightly but revenues are going up and profits are going up.

I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe.

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.

A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.

You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.

I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.

Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.

If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.

There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions.

In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.

But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation.

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.

By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?

The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.

True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.

Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member.

It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.

You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.