May Quotes

I have felt some twinges recently, about parts I wanted to play that I may be getting too old and fat to do. 'Hamlet,' for example - maybe that's gone. I would love to play Richard II.

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.

Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

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

May God permit us both to return to a free and independent Poland.

The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened.

We may very well be faced with the choice of retaining the AAA credit rating or abandoning some of our key infrastructure projects, which are about jobs for the future. I will choose jobs in that equation every time.

We may not find the answers. We may not find Bigfoot. We may not find a chupacabra. We may not find out who was responsible for killing JFK, but we're going to keep looking, asking, probing. And one day - you know what? - we may get some of those answers.

It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me anymore.

If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him.

Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

For the president to resign now would be wrong. President Clinton may have debased himself with his behavior, but we shouldn't debase the office with an impulsive overreaction.

For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.

This dame keeps dragging me into the bushes. Keep your eye open, you may have to rescue me.

The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army.

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.

Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.

When news comes out, it ought to be reported. There shouldn't be a moratorium based on legitimate news, just because it may or may not affect one candidate or the other. That's just absurd.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.