May Quotes - Page 279

An arrow may not be a shocklance, yet it can still kill you.

Schemes within schemes. The Great Serpent is a good sign for you Aes Sedai, I think. Someday you may swallow yourselves by accident.

Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.

When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head towards me, Guess I may, what I must be: First, I shall decline my head; Secondly, I shall be dead: Lastly, safely buryed.

Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may; The morrow's life too late is; live to-day.

The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece.

Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality.

Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem.

A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.

Accepting the gift may take the accumulated wisdom of some trodden miles, but it also opens the welcome windows of joy.

Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.

But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.

I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.

Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.

I may be a B-movie star, but I work. I'm an actor.

Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global.

Whatever the needs of family members may be, we can strengthen our families as we follow the counsel given by prophets.

There is always someone out there working harder than you, and you may be standing next to him or her in your next competition.

High kitsch, whatever else may be said of it, cannot be openly dismissed as cheap.

One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.

A lion may die of an ass's kick.

But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.