May Be Quotes

#1. The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.

William Blum

#2. Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were barely visible to the dominant culture, and to recognize that something that may seem innocent to you may be painful to others.

David Plotz

#3. Love opens all doors, no matter how tightly closed they may be, no matter how rusty from lack of use. Your work is to bring unity and harmony, to open all those doors which have been closed for a long time. Have patience and tolerance. Open your heart all the time.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#4. Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now, that may be a bit much for those who don't come from New York, but clearly we are an important city for reasons of our cultural advantages.

David Dinkins

#5. It may be that that we can sing what we often cannot say, whether it be from shyness, fear, lack of the right words or the passion or dramatic gift to express them. More souls have rallied to more causes by the strains of music than by straining rhetoric.

Richard Rodgers

#6. Some say loyalty inspires boundless hope. And while that may be, there is a catch. True loyalty takes years to build... and only seconds to destroy.

Emily Thorne

#7. You now have learned enough to see That Cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind. For some are sane and some are mad And some are good and some are bad And some are better, some are worse - But all may be described in verse.

Garrison Keillor

#8. It is possible that the meaning of wisdom in Hebrew indicates aptitude for stratagems and the application of thought in such a way that the stratagems and ruses may be used in achieving either rational or moral virtues, or in achieving skill in a practical art, or in working evil and wickedness.

Maimonides

#9. Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their 'evil' look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it

Camille Paglia

#10. Now love's the only thing thats free. We must take it where it's found. Pretty soon it may be costly.

Tracy Chapman

#11. Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence, even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious.

Joyce Brothers

#12. The heart may be weak. And sometimes it may even give in. But I've learned that deep down, there's a light that never goes out!

Tetsuya Nomura

#13. As far as I have heard or observed, the principal object is, not that mankind may be well and honestly clad, but, unquestionably, that corporations may be enriched.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the relations of this country to Spain offer no ties of gratitude or of blood.

Henry Cabot Lodge

#15. My real life was when I was just a working guy. You know, it's OK to head out for Wonderful. But on your way to Wonderful, you're gonna have to pass through All Right. And when you get to All Right, take a good look around, and get used to it, because that may be as far as you're gonna go.

Bill Withers

#16. Breakups usually don't happen down by the river with beautiful lighting. The moment you realize your relationship may be over might happen in Aisle 11 of Rite-Aid and the person you're with has disregarded your feelings and your needs by bringing you the wrong toothbrush again for the fourth time.

Jay Duplass

#17. I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight.

Douglas Hurd

#18. It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#19. You could string a hundred endless days together,
My soul would find no comfort from this pain.
You laugh at my tale? You may be educated
But you haven't learned to love till you're insane

Rumi

#20. But by bad courses may be understood that their events can never fall out good.

William Shakespeare

#21. It's sometimes easier to help others rather than helping yourself. The trick is to listen to your "self" as a friend. This may be the simplest change you ever make in life, with the biggest impact.

Lorii Myers

#22. Another example may be the robust revival today of traditional or pre-revolutionary beliefs, rituals, customs, ceremonies, and even superstitions, most of which were once strenuously denounced and suppressed during the nation's drive for a cosmopolitan modernity.

Xiaobing Tang

#23. No matter what the level of funding or success may be, there's always money missing, and you still want to have a gorgeous image, an endless cast and a flawless rendering.

Michel Ocelot

#24. Being afraid to tell the truth because of the projected consequences, whatever it may be, shows a lack of faith and an abundance of fear.

Monica Johnson

#25. I may be an echo only, but maybe I've created a new valley.

Garry Fitchett

#26. God does not forsake you. It is because he wishes to increase your glory that oftentimes he permits you to fall sick. Keep up your courage so that you may also hear him say: Do you think I have dealt with you otherwise than that you may be shown to be just?

Saint John Chrysostom

#27. Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.

Marcus Aurelius

#28. Tis in our power
(unless we fear that apes can tutor's) to
Be masters of our manners. What need I
Affect another's gait, which is not catching
Where there is faith, or to be found upon
Another's way of speech, when by mine own
I may be reasonably conceived

William Shakespeare

#29. We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.

C. JoyBell C.

#30. Anything you say may be used against you.

Betty Smith

#31. People under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

Franz Kafka

#32. As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity.

David Ricardo

#33. Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods -moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former -but no opinion.

Hannah Arendt

#34. Desire may be compared to a minute seed. It is like a big banyan tree growing out of a seed, which is no bigger than a dot.

Sarada Devi

#35. How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered from the fact that the pleasure-dream of the male Urning has to do with male persons, and of the female with females.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#36. Never give up and always keep fighting, because though times may be tough, the sacrifices do pay off, so just keep pushing towards your dream and just love it at the same time and enjoy it.

Gabby Douglas

#37. And you won't write any more stupid songs about me?"
"Can't promise that. In fact, that may be all I do for the rest of my life.

Charles Sheehan-Miles

#38. Life, on this Earth may be likened to a great Kaleidoscope before which the scenes and facts and material substances are ever shifting and changing and all any man can do is to take these facts and substances and re-arrange them in new combinations.

Napoleon Hill

#39. All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#40. My PSA was normal but the DRE indicated there may be a problem.

Len Dawson

#41. By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#42. Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.

Alexander Hamilton

#43. I may be a dummy, but I'll never give up.

S.J. Romero

#44. I wish with all my heart that you may be the most lovable prince in the world, and I bestow my gift on you as much as I am able.

Charles Perrault

#45. Acting may be how I've made my living, but music has always been my passion.

John Corbett

#46. It is feared that it may be the smallpox, sir," replied Porthos ... "and what is serious is that it will certainly spoil his face.

Alexandre Dumas

#47. The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die.

Stephen King

#48. It is not in the premise that reality
Is a solid. It may be a shade that traverses
A dust, a force that traverses a shade.

Wallace Stevens

#49. Sometimes, all company forsaking,
They settle to a game of chess
And, leaning on a table, guess
What move the other may be making,
And Lensky with a dreamy look,
Allows his pawn to take his rook.

Alexander Pushkin

#50. Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

Bill Cosby

#51. If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.

Matthew Simpson

#52. Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.

Mahatma Gandhi

#53. Positively the principle may be expressed: In matters of the intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard to any other consideration. And negatively: In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable.

Richard Dawkins

#54. Nothing could be so poignant and so terrible as this face, wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the good.

Victor Hugo

#55. In art and science we are now in a delta, at the end of the long flow of progress. In a delta there is no clear direction but there may be many choices. The best we can do is to enjoy the choices that we have and to be genuinely and creatively eclectic.

Robert Bateman

#56. You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.

Paddy Considine

#57. Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

Ilka Chase

#58. A home without a cat - and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat - may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

Mark Twain

#59. I am one of those people, and I may be personally biased, who wishes that I had some place to come out of the closet besides a bar.

Christopher Rice

#60. Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

W. H. Auden

#61. When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.

Charles Caleb Colton

#62. The European generally submits to a public officer because he represents a superior force; but to an American he represents a right. In America it may be said that no one renders obedience to man, but to justice and to law.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#63. Even a fool may be wise after the event.

Homer

#64. There are occasions upon which a candid expression of opinion may be not only rude, but counterproductive. L

Elizabeth Peters

#65. Strong impulses are but another name for energy. Energy may be turned to bad uses; but more good may always be made of an energetic nature, than of an indolent and impassive one.

John Stuart Mill

#66. Nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then ... We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry.

George Sand

#67. A change of perspective may be all it takes to transform a painful experience into a powerful growth experience.

Iyanla Vanzant

#68. He shook his head. No, we do. I may be a little buzzed and really fucking horny, but I also need you to know that I love you. I should have said it the first time months ago, and I will keep saying it every damn day. I love you more than every single star in the Louisiana sky above us.

Magan Vernon

#69. But without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error, and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

Jane Austen

#70. ... at four o'clock in the morning, when the world is full of magic, things may be safely said that may not be uttered at any other time, so long as the person who listens believes in the same kind of magic as the person who speaks.

Robin McKinley

#71. The universe may be timeless, but if you imagine breaking it into pieces, some of the pieces can serve as clocks for the others. Time emerges from timelessness. We perceive time because we are, by our very nature, one of those pieces.

Craig Callender

#72. Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

John Dewey

#73. Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.

Manfred Von Richthofen

#74. Give yourself permission to shoot for something that seems totally beyond your grasp. You may be surprised at your capabilities

Danica Patrick

#75. I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.

Rita Mae Brown

#76. When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.

William J. Clinton

#77. Obstacles are opportunities that either strengthen our drive to achieve a goal, or empower a perceived limit, making us miss what may be around the corner.

Andi Jones

#78. A bird in the hand may be worth two in the bush, but remember also that a bird in the hand is a positive embarrassment to one not in the poultry business.

George Ade

#79. Perseverance may be just as important as speed in the battle for the future.

Gary Hamel

#80. Secrets. Everyone has them. The light of day and truth reveal some secrets to be nagging obsessions or habits, while other secrets may be as incriminating as a literal decaying skeleton in one's closet.

Kenn Bivins

#81. I gotta hand it to ya, Tristan. You may be a world-class fuckup with what you done to Lisa, but you got taste, man. You got good taste.

A. Violet End

#82. Anonymity may be a powerful drug; it is as well we do not taste too much of it in our daily lives.

Stephanie Barron

#83. Blood may be thicker than water, but oil is thicker than both.

Larry Hagman

#84. Do you have a camera?" Jackson asked. "We could get some pictures and may be take a print or two if we're lucky."
Jonas shook his head. "We'd probably get a bunch of ghosts and that would just freak me out.

Christine Feehan

#85. Sometimes you receive a knock in action: it may be your death-wound or just a scratch

Patrick O'Brian

#86. If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

John Templeton

#87. All beings are vast multidimensional masters. They may be exploring divinity or limitation, but they are masters nonetheless. Then it becomes ok to simply allow them their process.

Ariel Tachi-ren

#88. If you're like us -mothers with an attitude problem- you may be getting increasingly irritable about this chasm between the ridiculous, honey-hued ideals of perfect motherhood in the mass media and the reality of mothers' everyday lives.

Susan Douglas

#89. Endurance is not the frail and tenuous thing some think it, but is in reality the measuring rod of our sanity and may be safely stretched to fill our direst need.

Jan Cox Speas

#90. I think number one is what my mom and dad preached to me when I was a little kid: Just because you may have athletic ability and you may be able to play a sport doesn't make you any more special than anybody else. Doesn't mean God loves you more than anybody else.

Tim Tebow

#91. It may be bliss not to know a tornado is coming because you have no need to worry or take action. But while your head is in the sand your bum is in the air, the tornado is still coming.

David Icke

#92. I may be a donkey but I can kick the wrong people.

Amit Abraham

#93. She may be an old flame, but she still smokin'.

Lois Greiman

#94. I may be even more grateful to George Lucas now than I was as a kid.

J.J. Abrams

#95. Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Joyce Brothers

#96. Fortune, in fact, is a pestilent shrew, and, withal, an inexorable creditor; and though for a time she may be all smiles and courtesies, and indulge us in long credits, yet sooner or later she brings up her arrears with a vengeance, and washes out her scores with our tears.

Washington Irving

#97. Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Eckhart Tolle

#98. If the national mind of America be judged of by its legislation, it is of a very high order ... If the American nation be judged of by its literature, it may be pronounced to have no mind at all.

Harriet Martineau

#99. I truly believe I may be getting too big for my own good.

Eminem

#100. The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here.

C.S. Lewis