Mays Quotes (page 67)

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• may
• complication
• afford

I can't afford to despise anything. An absurdity may be the starting-point of the most dangerous complications. Joseph Conrad

• surprise
• lies
• vision

The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected. Salman Rushdie

• may
• insightful
• saying

Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a folk saying that captures the insight in a kind of wash. The intuition may be real and ripe, fresh with possibilities, but the folk saying is guaranteed to be a cliche, stale and self-contained. Anne Lamott

• may
• affection
• him

It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him. Jane Austen

• thinking
• may
• manly

All man are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them Miyamoto Musashi

• true
• knowledge
• may

I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship only what I believe to be true.” May 19, 1962 Flannery O'Connor

• night
• world
• may

We may get to know the world however we choose, it will always keep a day and night aspect. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• thoughts
• evening
• may

Strange as it may seem—or perhaps it does not seem so strange—they all had the same thought: it was so much easier to kill humans on the battlefield than animals in cages, even if, on the battlefield, one might end up being killed oneself. Haruki Murakami

• caring
• end
• children

I don't know if I have the strength to care for Yukiko and the children, I thought. No more visions can help me, weaving special dreams just for me. As far as the eye can see, the void is simply that? a void. I've been in that void before and forced myself to adjust. And now, finally, I end up where I began and I'd better get used to it. No one will weave dreams for me? it is my turn to weave dreams for others. That's what I have to do. Such dreams may have no power, but if my own life... Haruki Murakami

• letting go
• may
• letting you go

Just don't let go or you may drown. Jonathan Larson

• game
• may
• lose

You may have taken the planet, but you will lose this game! Stephenie Meyer

• death
• calm
• wind

If after every Tempest came such calms, may the winds blow til they have awakened Death William Shakespeare

• history
• may
• greek

All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise. William Dean Howells

• love
• may
• love hurts

You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little. Napolean Hill

• may
• consider
• considers

Consider That Ye May Be Wrong. Oliver Cromwell