May Quotations | Page 3

A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.

Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

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.

He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in Reality be digging a pit.

You learn more about a person from the people around that person than you do from the person themselves. We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual.

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it.

The Lord may not come when you want Him, but he's always going to be there on time.

Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.

Not only do I know how to milk a cow, but I know how to herd a bunch of cows, too, which is a life skill that I think may come in handy someday.

Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.

When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

Wherever my work may take me in the near future even if you should see me one day within the fortress - you can always count on me as your reliable assistant.

A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.

I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention.

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.

I hope that in 5 years from now I'll be working and doing what makes me happy. Whatever that may be.

That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

My PSA was normal but the DRE indicated there may be a problem.

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

There aren't many hitters who like facing knuckleball pitchers. They may not be intimidated by them, but they sure are thinking about them before they go into the box.

I may be boring, but that's okay; I don't want to hard-sell myself.

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.

I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

Sometimes because a woman is beautiful, she's not encouraged to be more, although she may have so much more to offer.

I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.

Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be open.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

I may have a feather duster down my pants.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.

I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.

When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.

I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.

As a DJ, people expect a certain sound and a certain danceability for the music. As a producer, I really like to let go of any rules that may exist.

We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is.

I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!

Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.

God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.

God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.

For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.

I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I'm just going to live with the animals and adopt an elephant, and it's going to be my friend.

And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.

Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with modern punctuation, and with notes. But any poetry that is performed - from song lyric to tragic speech - must make its point, as it were, without reference back.

A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know.

Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what I learned from Kurt Vonnegut was that I could write stories that say I may not have a solution, but this is wrong - that's good enough.

Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.

All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.

However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.

Prayer is not a substitute for work. First we have to do all we can ourselves to understand a situation. Then when we ask for help, sometimes it is very evident, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes we may well be helped by not getting a decision.

I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time

You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.

The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.

So the good news is, if you're unemployed and you go to apply for a job and you're not hired for that job, see a lawyer - you may be able to file for a claim because you were discriminated against because you were unemployed.

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.

I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

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

But today, I feel the genuine warmth, the affection, and although I may joke about it, I am touched.

Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles.

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

I have to say, as a young woman of color, and this may sound controversial, in sci-fi, anything is possible. In sci-fi I can belong to the military. In sci-fi I can have an interracial love affair; I can be a revolutionary.

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves.

Increasing recycling in Delaware is an idea whose time has come and, if put off, may not come again.

If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.'

Certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it is.

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.

You may know God, but not comprehend Him.

A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

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.

I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality.

Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.

I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.

They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.