May Quotes - Page 326

Let the debate begin, let the rest of the world know that the iconic symbol of the United Kingdom may change

That's a real sign of the times - can you imagine Nick Cave wearing a hoodie? He may not wear one, but he definitely sells them.

I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.

There may be flies on you and me, but there are no flies on Jesus.

There may be beings, thinking beings, near or surrounding us, which we do not perceive, which we cannot imagine. We know very little; but, in my opinion, we know enough to hope for the immortality, the individual immortality, of the better part of man.

I think I may have been the only person to be rewarded charitably and get a tax deduction for swearing on film!

Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.

If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from '87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a significant amount of growth and profit, may not have existed.

Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.

I may be controversial, but my allegiance is to people outside the Beltway.

Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.

The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.

In a long work sleep may be naturally expected.

There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.

The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.

Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.

Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.

Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.

The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.

You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.