May Quotes - Page 184

Any one may do a casual act of good-nature; but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament.

The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.

do it now. There may be a law against it tomorrow.

Maybe next time, but probably not.

Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The impossibility of pausing in poetry as long as may be needed to make sense clear causes many a set of words actually deficient in linguistic workmanship to pass for an eloquent brevity.

The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.

He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.

Without going outside, you may know the whole world!

What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? Keep the commandments.

You may never reach that glorious moment until you die, so live life on the edge halfway between heaven and hell...and let's all dance in the middle in purgatory.

Let those who are famished come that they may lay aside perpetual hunger and be filled with heavenly food.

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

He laughed. "I know you're teasing me. And you should know I'm not easily humiliated. You may hunt for my food, and pound me every time we fight, and protect me when we're attacked, if you like. I'll thank you for it.

While I may never be in remission from cancer, I am currently in remission from an unhealthy relationship to food.

Asked whether donor nations may be becoming fatigued ... The fatigue may be there, but I don't think we can justify it in the face of such misery. We may need to wake up our conscience and our conscience must force us to act.

You may lose again and again... and again because you always think of success, but you can have success because you never think of it but concentrating your right work only.

A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.

Nobody's sex life is such that every experience is a ten. You may have to be satisfied with regular eights or sixes and even an occasional three.

One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe.

There's actually a big difference between story and character. A great story doesn't make a great movie. A great script, which defines its moments and characters can become a great movie. You can make a movie that makes a lot of money and it may or may not have great story or great characters.

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

The worst of all superstitions may be that astrology is a superstition.

So if you serve a whole chicken to your family like grandma did, you may be serving them 10 times as much fat than the days of yesteryear. That's a whole lotta fat, and big trouble for the waistline.

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set so deeply within the larger context of human affairs that it serves as a charged microcosm of the variety of attitudes and values to which culture subscribes. Among other things, it may serve as a model of sexual politics on an individual or personal plane.