May Quotations | Page 7

I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision.

What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.

At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push.

The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up saving the lives of those other drivers who understand that living in a society means behaving in a commonly beneficial way.

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.

As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market.

He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.

For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance.

Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.

It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.

Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.

You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care.

Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.

We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable.

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.

You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

I may be the prat in the hat, that's cool, but I drive an Aston Martin DB5.

We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

Ultimately, China may use force to push for unification with Taiwan, a scenario we all must work to prevent.

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have approached America by different paths.

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.

I may never get my own action figure, but at least I think what I'm doing is really legitimate musically

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.

There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin.

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

Nobody's seen all my work. No one. No one in the world has seen all my movies. Some things just never came out... some things may still come out.

Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.

The regular hours necessary to be observed by those who follow country business, are perhaps of more consequence than any of the other articles, however important those may be.

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.

The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.

To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult so let's avoid him.'

I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

WHATEVER Life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.

My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.

Given the fact that most religions share basic values, it is most unfortunate that religious people can be played off against each other so easily. One possible reason for this may be that people do not know enough about other people's beliefs.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job.

The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding

The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.

Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

If it hadn't been for the videocassette, I may not have had a career at all.

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as difficult as it may appear.

I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not.

I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

We like things to manifest right away, and they may not. Many times, we're just planting a seed and we don't know exactly how it is going to come to fruition. It's hard for us to realize that what we see in front of us might not be the end of the story.

The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.

For me, fielding is everything - it is a passion that comes from within. You can get a bad ball while you bat, and your bowling may not always be up there, but you are completely in control of how well you field.

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.

I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.

Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.

George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.

These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than "able-bodied" folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.

For the majority of the time, I may as well have been just a really tan white kid. You know, I may as well have just been, like, a fat kid.

Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all.

I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

I think what Calvinism may offer us is that God's in charge of his world.

I may be the most recognizable name in the cast, but I can guarantee that I am not the most talented.

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.

You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.

I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell

My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

I want to speak for people that may not feel like they're being spoken for at the moment. And I want to make a connection between the world around us and the charts.

By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

Often there is a wall between the journalist and the star because there is usually not much time to get to know a person, and the star is always asked the same questions, and may be defensive.

If NASCAR racing gets any more exciting, I may not be able to stand it.