Quotes of: May Keyword

Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well.

Reflections on the Psalms

There are moments that define a person's whole life. MOMENTS in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become hinge on a single decision.

Rot and Ruin

While one may lose much because of avarice, nothing was ever accomplished by abstinence.

Spice and Wolf, Vol. 1

A sharp decline in actual deprivation may, paradoxically, have been accompanied by an ongoing and even escalating sense of fear of deprivation.

Status Anxiety

But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

Sufi Thought and Action

Philosophy may be blind without science, but science can lack vision without philosophy.

Socrates in Cyberspace: The Search for the Soul in the 21st Century

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

The Social Contract

Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.

Sex & character

The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.

Sex and the City

Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.

Sarah Canary

For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may be long or short.

The Savage Detectives

Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.

The Sagan Diary

Without differentiating from parents or caretakers we may never succeed in living our own lives.

The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation

A princess always takes care that her words are honeyed, for she may have to eat them

Some Enchanted Evening

You may say, But wasn't this the Sixties? Yes, but only for some people, only in certain parts of the country.

The Sense of an Ending

Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Sketches and Travels, Etc.

Truth and effort may increase human worth But they are not enough to make us whole; Only love can complete us.

Songs of Enlightenment

You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Morning dew upon the grass, glistening in the sun. Yesterday’s gone, tomorrow may come, but this day has begun.

Shadows Over February

Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you. But no one does.

Saving Francesca

... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.

Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness