May Quotes - Page 321

Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century.

I’ve watched you barely escape death several times, and each instance killed me a little inside. They may be dormant now, but we have enemies both cunning and cruel. Knowing you possess the power to defeat most of them doesn’t threaten me, luv. It relieves me to my very core.

It may be that there was no reason or purpose, for mankind must always be finding reasons where there are none, and comfort in a purpose that hardly exists.

For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

I wrote in Les Mots that "I have often thought against myself." That sentence has not been understood either. Critics have seen in it a confession of masochism. But that is how one should think: revolting against everything "inculcated'' that one may have within oneself.

I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.

A great man may be the personification and type of the epoch for which God destines him, but he is never its creator.

When you take a picture of someone, never show it to them right away. If they don't like it, they may erase it.

A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough to know he ought to be silent on some other subject of which he has but a slight knowledge; if such an illustrious man ventures beyond the bounds of his capacity, he loses his way and talks like a fool.

You have your goals. They may be small goals or they may be large goals. As you strive to achieve your goals, sometimes your conditions change and your goals will change as well.

It is in love with its limitless horizontality, as New York may be with its verticality.

You do see some people that can contort themselves all the way around, but they may have been practicing for years, they may be gymnasts or they may just be flexible.

Yoga is about working with what you've got on that day. Some days you may find certain positions easier to get into than others. It's not about comparing yourself or judging yourself, it's about being in that moment and doing your best.

You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.

Because it may seem like a small role now, but it matters. In the end, everything matters.

It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down.

Many, many times I would shake my head in dismay at the goings-on in the House of Commons, but that never caused me to lose my fundamental faith in the values of our parliamentary institutions.

Do not pick up the pen unless you understand how heavy it is, and how long you may carry it for.

Parking at a garage is like going to a prostitute. Why pay for it when you can apply yourself, and then may be you can get it for free.

After my first No. 1 song back in 2006, I worried I may never have another one.

The only wishes that will ever change you are the kind that may, at any moment, eat you whole.

In Paris there are few changes; one always finds one's niche there when one returns - no matter how long one may have been away.

If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in harmony or in conflict with the background.

I may not remember, but I never forget.

But the most annoying of all public reformers is the personal satirist. Though he may be considered by some few as a useful member of society, yet he is only ranked with the hangman, whom we tolerate because he executes the judgment we abhor to do ourselves, and avoid with a natural detestation of his office. The pen of the one and the cord of the other are inseparable in our minds.