May Quotes

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.

I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative.

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.

In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a concert that was done at the Vision Festival in May.

The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise.

My visibility may have gotten Hollywood to redefine what's attractive.

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism.

I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen.

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.

While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect.

While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.