All Quotes

It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.
‐‐ Adam Ant

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
‐‐ E. W. Howe

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.
‐‐ Mercy Otis Warren

It may be a mistake to say this, but I know my limitations as an actor and I know what I can and can not do. Robert De Niro can do everything. I can't. A 'Highlander' movie is basically my thing. What I'm attempting to do is develop my ability as an actor and try to be the best I can be in the fantasy/action genre.
‐‐ Christopher Lambert

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
‐‐ Samuel Alexander

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.
‐‐ Breyten Breytenbach

It may be an instinct, it is with me anyway, when you're presenting something to the world, to make it as beautiful as you can.
‐‐ Alice Paul

It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.
‐‐ Bruce Forsyth

It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
‐‐ Oliver Ellsworth

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.
‐‐ John George Nicolay

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

It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.
‐‐ Saskya Pandita

It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.
‐‐ Josiah Strong

It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.
‐‐ Colm Toibin

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.
‐‐ Elizabeth Moon

It may be for 20 or 30 years no one has yet been able to decide the length of the life of the black bass.
‐‐ Jay Cooke

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
‐‐ C. S. Lewis

It may be, however, that I am too much wedded to my own views in the matter, and as I have spent nearly eight years of the hardest work of my life in this department, I respectfully request that I may now be relieved from its command.
‐‐ George Crook

It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.
‐‐ Sheri S. Tepper

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

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.
‐‐ Lyndon B. Johnson

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
‐‐ George Washington

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
‐‐ Margaret Mead

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

It may be no surprise that Pittsburgh has direct flights to London, Paris and Frankfurt, but consider this: many of the tourists here have come from Europe to the capital of culture in the Alleghenies.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established.
‐‐ Charles Inglis

It may be said, let him take Money at Interest, and not buy at Time. But then Men must be found, that will lend; the Legislative must provide a Fund to borrow upon.
‐‐ Dudley North

It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.
‐‐ Julien Benda

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.
‐‐ Howard Nemerov

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.
‐‐ Rod Serling

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.
‐‐ Henry A. Wallace

It may be something to do with my having been to a girls' school, but I'm far more comfortable making male friendships than female ones. My friends tend to be men and their significant others.
‐‐ Joanne Harris

It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it.
‐‐ Jules Verne

It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
‐‐ Oliver Tambo

It may be that by watching everywhere we go, by watching everything we do, by analyzing every word we say, by waiting and passing judgment over every association we make and every person we love, that we could uncover a terrorist plot, or we could discover more criminals. But is that the kind of society we want to live in?
‐‐ Edward Snowden

It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.
‐‐ Jeremy Rifkin

It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.
‐‐ Susannah McCorkle

It may be that other developers are finding that their games play better on one platform over the other, so they're choosing to migrate to that platform.
‐‐ Sid Meier

It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.
‐‐ Arthur C. Clarke

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
‐‐ Pearl S. Buck

It may be that that we can sing what we often cannot say, whether it be from shyness, fear, lack of the right words or the passion or dramatic gift to express them. More souls have rallied to more causes by the strains of music than by straining rhetoric.
‐‐ Richard Rodgers

It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
‐‐ Robert Motherwell

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.
‐‐ Greil Marcus

It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment.
‐‐ Kurt Vonnegut

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.
‐‐ Cybill Shepherd

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.
‐‐ Rumi