May Quotes

It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight.

Fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live.

I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go.

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.

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

You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.

The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed.

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.

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?

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.

It may be those who do most, dream most.

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

There is absolutely no doubt about it, and I may not be the one that does it, but the cloned child is coming. There is absolutely no way that it will not happen.

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.

The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed.

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed.

The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed.