May Quotations | Page 4

Every once in awhile we may fall on our face, but we insist on doing what we wanna do.

They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.

I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles

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.

Sometimes directors may not give you words, you know? They may not talk at all! You've just got to use your radar to figure out how you can get to the center and not lose yourself, but still be directed at the same time.

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration.

Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.

It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the readers opportunities to follow it at every step.

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal.

Never ask a woman if you may kiss her. Instead, learn to read body language.

Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.

God may not be there when you want him but he is always on time.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.

It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.

The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.

We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of.

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

My life may seem glamorous from the outside but off screen it's as ordinary as anyone else's.

Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.

To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.

The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy

The beautiful thing about my intelligence is that it doesn't really come in one specific department. So even if something hasn't happened to me, I have information on how to get you through whatever you may be going through.

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.

The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

I may not be a politician, but I will fight to the end of my life for what I believe in.

Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses

You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.

The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.

Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

I can't say that I know the lexicon as intimately as a lot of people, so I may be unworthy of being called a Trekkie. That would be doing a disservice to the people who really are Trekkies.

It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.

There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.

Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.

You may boo, you may turn your back, but I have devoted my life to the conservative cause.

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.

Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it.

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

I'm praying we don't go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier.

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.

The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

Whether some may like it or not, I am still the farmer that I was born as and will continue to be one.

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.

I always walk around with a few moves in my pocket. You never know when you may need to bust one out.

We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family.

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.

I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.

The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.

When you say a 'former child star,' you may as well say 'failed child star.

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.

The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise.

Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong.

There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles.

I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.

Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives.

You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.

A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.

There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things.

You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product, but if your bottom line goes bust, then that's it.

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.

As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.

We're normal people. Don't be scared because we are in a chair. People don't understand that. They think, 'Oh, a wheelchair, something's wrong with their heads, something's just not right.' Well yeah, we may be a little twisted, but no more than anyone else.

Leanness of body and soul may go together.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.