Quotes of: I-may-not Keyword

You may have done 20 great shows in a row and come to one, and it doesn't work. You never presume anything.

Bob Newhart

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.

Julia Roberts

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

Rebecca Harding Davis

By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.

Saskya Pandita

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

Tacitus

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

Baltasar Gracian

A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

James Boswell

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

Jean de la Bruyere

We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.

Lillian Gordy Carter

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Plato

Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good.

Thomas Frank

First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice.

Benjamin Tucker

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

Simone Weil

If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.

Adam McKay

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have committed.

Lee Greenwood

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

Roger Ebert

You have to assume that everything you do is public knowledge. Everything. Because now everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a photographer.

Derek Jeter

The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.

Enya