May Quotes - Page 304

You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.

My 'must-have' was poetry. From the first, life meant that to me. And, fortunately, poetry is not purchasable material, but an atmosphere in which every life may expand. I found it everywhere about me.

You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.

Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame.

The Lord may not come when you want Him, but he's always going to be there on time.

Facts are the words of God, and we may heap them together endlessly, but they will teach us little or nothing till we place them in their true relations, and recognize the thought that binds them together.

I'm a Republican. I may go into politics myself.

Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.

I've never thought that it made sense to put something out that I didn't actually find really fun to read. Or, if not "fun," engaging. My tastes are whatever they are, but I may be a little bit afraid of certain kinds of density. I may get turned off by certain kinds of show-offyness.

You have to be first, different, or great. If you're one of them, you may make it.

Fourier's theorem is not only one of the most beautiful results of modern analysis, but it may be said to furnish an indispensable instrument in the treatment of nearly every recondite question in modern physics.

A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is not to do anything which, if found out, will cause his ruin.

Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they will lose something of their natural turpitude.

There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.

Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.

Not to perceive the little weaknesses and the idle but innocent affectations of the company may be allowable as a sort of polite duty. The company will be pleased with you if you do, and most probably will not be reformed by you if you do not.

A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.

Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.

Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.

I die but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed.

Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never

I am not in the least forbidden. You may sample me all you choose.

[Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!" [Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.

When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, "He didn't hit me."

Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions.