May Quotes - Page 352

To die for others is the highest purpose a person may achieve.

I'm interested in the intimate relationships we can have with those good clothes that we may have in our closets.

I have often thought that however learned you may talk about it, one knows nothing but what he learns from his own experience. [Ger., Da dacht ich oft: schwatzt noch so hoch gelehrt, Man weiss doch nichts, als was man selbst erfahrt.]

Are you going to win every argument?" He was pretty certain he'd asked her that once before. May be twice. "Only the important ones.

What you feel is important may not be what the director feels is important.

It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.

It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.

We repose too much upon the actual, when we should be seeking to develop the possibilities of our being. It is true of nearly all of us, that what we have done is little compared with what we might have accomplished, or may hereafter effect.

The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases; from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.

There are few plants that are ugly. It's how you use them that may not be pretty.

After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in a story. They may be startling at the time, but it passes. One gets caught up in the narrative, but the dangers aren't real, are they? Things happen in any way the storyteller chooses. It is all just made up.

Let's not forget, Sarah Palin may not have a golden touch, but she gave Christine O'Donnell candidate a big touch that got her over the top.

[Ted] Cruz may have been hoping his reversal would fly under the radar.

I don't know if the podcast as a medium will ever have the cultural impact that TV and movies do. It may never be super-mainstream.

You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.

It doesn't matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren't supporting it and buying your music, it's hard to make it.

Woo! It's so cold, I think we may be twin sisters now," he said through rattling teeth.

Impatience is a hindrance. As with all things if you attempt to take shortcuts, the final destination will rarely be as good and may even be attainable.

We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.

I throw a lot more punches than Floyd [ Mayweather]. He's very efficient with his punches and when he throws he lands a very high percentage but he's not exceptionally busy every round.

Mayors typically don't do the things we're trying to do... Revolutionaries aren't typically Mayor.

I think Africa is slowly learning - and painfully - that importance of insisting on responsible leadership. It will come eventually, and we may be impatient and rightly so, because it is not coming fast enough. But that is the way to go.

I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been somewhat to blame.

Finest fur may cover toughest meat.

I don't cook... I don't know how to clean... there's may be a good chance I'm an alcoholic.