May Quotes - Page 154

What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.

I may not have been very tall or very athletic, but the one thing I did have was the most effective backside in world rugby.

God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee.

If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.

The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.

To the somnambulist, sleep-walking may seem more pleasant and less hazardous than wakeful walking, but the latter is the wiser mode of locomotion in the congested traffic of a modern community. It is about time to abandon judicial somnambulism.

It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.

She [Theresa May] is the right choice to lead Britain in a challenging period and will make a truly outstanding prime minister.

We may think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it's our garden that is really nurturing us.

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

A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]

The European family may well be anything but perfect.

One may receive the information but miss the teaching.

It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.

There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.

Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it may not, and perhaps ought not to be supplied by prudence.

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.

You are the first President to whom the opportunity was ever offered constitutionally to inaugurate such a day. If you fail us now, you may be the last.

We may surprised at whom God sends to answer our prayers.

It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things work but only the kind of quick, easy outer impression that they get.

Love your enemies-they may tell you the truth.

You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.