May Quotes - Page 256

This scene may disturb you, so you have to pay attention.

The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.

When you're doing standup you're kind of doing, "Hey. I thought of this. This may be funny.

That's part of this industry. It's hard a lot of the time, especially when you get knocked down a lot. There's a lot of criticism and it's always in the back of your mind that you may never work again.

You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!

Love may be the answer, but even though you're watching for the solution, intercourse raises some rather interesting thoughts.

I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you.

Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.

If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.

Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some coup. Besides I shall have some other motive for taking chances than merely "love of adventure".

Bearing ourselves humbly before God... we await undismayed the impending assault.... be the ordeal sharp or long, or both, we shall seek no terms, we shall tolerate no parlay; we may show mercy - we shall ask for none.

Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.

We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.

Maria Edgeworth grumbled against vandals who ruined immortal works by quoting the life out of them. "How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets." Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden, scissored, patched, and frayed.

Be wary of security as a goal. It may often look like life's best prize. Usually it's not.

Primroses, the Spring may love them; Summer knows but little of them.

Since thy return, through days and weeks Of hope that grew by stealth, How many wan and faded cheeks Have kindled into health! The Old, by thee revived, have said, 'Another year is ours;' And wayworn Wanderers, poorly fed, Have smiled upon thy flowers.

The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear like a succession of revolutions, is, in reality, a series of developements.

Experience suggests that the first rule of politics is never to say never. The ingenious human capacity for maneuver and compromise may make acceptable tomorrow what seems outrageous or impossible today.

A spade may be made of any size, and if the same number of strokes be made in the hour, the requisite exertion will vary nearly as the cube of the length of the blade.

May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.

On a day - alack the day! - Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair Playing in the wanton air