May Quotes

While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.

I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.

We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it.

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

We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.

Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise.

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.

Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to do with my being slow at languages.

I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.

Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be declining slightly but revenues are going up and profits are going up.

One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of the 20th century; and another, curious layer which may possibly have been the 21st.

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

Who has the fame to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition.

Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.