Quotes of: May Keyword

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

H. L. Mencken

Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.

Léon Bloy

When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.

Leslie Cockburn

As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.

Margaret Carlson

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Nancy Mitford

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

Niccolo Machiavelli

However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.

John Sergeant Wise

At the end of medicine is dope; at the end of life is death; at the end of man may be the Hell which arrives from the vanities of the mind.

Norman Mailer

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

Norman Vincent Peale

there is a silent beauty hidden amongst pain, if you sit in it you may never find it; if you grow through it, You'll find the treasure.

Nikki Rowe

Life can be seen through several spectrums of light, but it’s the person who is doing the soul searching that defines what they may see.

Nadège Richards

That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.

Nassau William Senior

Albeit i may die sleep not in the coffen of gold and even beer no fruit; but my impact after depart is my particular to paradise.

oladosu feyikogbon

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Og Mandino

It is a warning to all those who may think about becoming involved with a terrorist network, people who are willing to destroy their own lives are hard to deter.

Otto Schily

It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

Oliver Tambo

I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all out of my system before I was 18.

Olivia Thirlby

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

Pierre Bayle

Tribalism isn't a bad thing. If you're a Facebook user, or Twitter user or Foursquare user or LinkedIn user, those are all tribes... and they may even have sub-tribes. It's not pejorative, it's declarative.

Peter Guber