May Quotes - Page 332

I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.

Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.

Youth, though it may lack knowledge, is certainly not devoid of intelligence; it sees through shams with sharp and terrible eyes.

Balloonists have an unsurpassed view of the scenery, but there is always the possibility that it may collide with them.

The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.

May good fortune be your constant companion.

Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.

However gemlike mathematical truths may be, research is but a human endeavor.

I really enjoy a variety of different work, and what I've just done may sometimes determine what I choose to do next.

When I'm all grown up, come what may, I'll build a boat to carry me away

I say that being a smart writer doesn't make you a good writer. There's obviously a difference between talent and intelligence. And it may be that at some point intelligence begins to impinge on talent, or talent on intelligence.

And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? We do it because we are born to do it, we feel we have no other choice and so be it.

The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.

I've never been starstruck but I may have wanted to strike a star once or twice.

The admitted right of a government to prevent the influx of elements hostile to its internal peace and security may not be questioned, even where there is not treaty stipulation on the subject.

Sometimes, counter-intuitively, it's easier to make a major change than a minor change. When a habit is changing very gradually, we may lose interest, give way under stress, or dismiss the change as insignificant. There's an excitement and an energy that comes from a big transformation, and that helps to create a habit.

I want them to have a desirable experience in whatever way that may manifest itself in each person.

You may boo, you may turn your back, but I have devoted my life to the conservative cause.

I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.

Seek happiness and you may or may not find it; seek grievances and you are guaranteed success.

May I feel like I feel when I'm about to eat cake.

You learn more about a person from the people around that person than you do from the person themselves. We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual.

..he may love you, he may miss you, but ultimately he's just not that into you.

Afraid? Batman's not afraid of anything. It's me. I'm afraid. I'm afraid that The Joker may be right about me. Sometimes…I question the rationality of my actions. And I’m afraid that when I walk through those asylum gates... when I walk into Arkham and the doors close behind me... it’ll be just like coming home.

With my solo music, often it's just about looking for interesting sounds that may or may not resonate emotionally.