All Quotes

It may be that the seemingly intrinsic attraction that past time has for me is merely a desire for escapism, as I look out at the nation and world with little optimism.
‐‐ David Souter

It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

It may be that there is no such thing as an equable motion, whereby time may be accurately measured. All motions may be accelerated or retarded, but the true, or equable, progress of absolute time is liable to no change.
‐‐ Isaac Newton

It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.
‐‐ Garth Risk Hallberg

It may be that we live in an endless universe, both in space and in time. And there've been Bangs in the past, and there will be Bangs in the future.
‐‐ Neil Turok

It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.
‐‐ Karl Barth

It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loath to see a rose on a maiden's breast substituted by a flower, however beautiful and fragrant it might be, that is went by the name of the skunk lily.
‐‐ Alexander Henry

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
‐‐ Margaret Thatcher

It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It's a huge success story.
‐‐ Amy Chua

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
‐‐ J. R. R. Tolkien

It may be those who do most, dream most.
‐‐ Stephen Leacock

It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.
‐‐ Jeff Goodell

It may be tripe, but it's my tripe - and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act.
‐‐ George MacDonald Fraser

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
‐‐ Carl Friedrich Gauss

It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.
‐‐ Alan Moore

It may be unfair of me but I do feel I know it.
‐‐ Tilda Swinton

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.
‐‐ Samuel Richardson

It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
‐‐ Giordano Bruno

It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens.
‐‐ Imogen Heap

It may come as a surprise to people, but I'm actually quite boring and normal. What do I do? I read books. I drive my kid to school. I have lunch with my wife. I pick my kid up from school. I go home.
‐‐ Nicolas Cage

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
‐‐ Baruch Spinoza

It may feel like the more you know about depression and the many forms it can take, the more questions you have. That's how I feel.
‐‐ Jane Pauley

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard

It may have lost its special-ness forever and the clubs might not being doing well but I think standup is in the best shape it has been in a long time.
‐‐ Marc Maron

It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
‐‐ Muhammad Iqbal

It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.
‐‐ Armistead Maupin

It may look perfect, but that's one thing I have learned about life is that it isn't always what it looks.
‐‐ Ann Romney

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
‐‐ M. Russell Ballard

It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.
‐‐ Esther Dyson

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.
‐‐ Joseph Glanvill

It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy.
‐‐ Marian Burros

It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending.
‐‐ Christopher Gadsden

It may not be the best in someone else's eyes, but it's the best I can do.
‐‐ Brandy Norwood

It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters.
‐‐ Helen Slater

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice that I'm trying to sing with.
‐‐ Todd Rundgren

It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.
‐‐ Jean Rostand

It may part of a one way evolution... or it may be we are currently on the downside of an innocence cycle where one day, with an up cycle, sweet will be entertaining again.
‐‐ Christopher Knight

It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they clearly deserve it.
‐‐ Thomas Mellon

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
‐‐ Florence Nightingale

It may seem difficult at first, but eating more high-nutrient foods reduces the desire for low-nutrient foods; it becomes easier with time.
‐‐ Joel Fuhrman

It may seem draconian, but the best recommendation I can make is to completely avoid grains.
‐‐ David Perlmutter

It may seem like sort of a waste of time to play 'World of Warcraft' with your son. But you're actually interacting with each other. You're solving problems. They may seem like simple problems, but you're solving them. You're posed with challenges that you have to overcome. You're on a quest to gain certain capabilities.
‐‐ Vint Cerf

It may seem like we have the ultimate plan for our lives, but it's not in the same galaxy of what God's plans are for His people.
‐‐ Monica Johnson

It may seem strange, but the most grateful I've ever felt was when I was held up at gunpoint. After I handed over my wallet and the mugger ran off into the woods, I thought, 'Thank you for not shooting me.' I was overwhelmingly glad to be alive and unharmed.
‐‐ Juliana Hatfield

It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.
‐‐ Peter Ackroyd

It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section.
‐‐ Mel Torme

It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.
‐‐ Jil Sander

It may sound cliched, but 'Strictly' is a real journey. I try to encourage my partner to stay in as long as they can, but above all to enjoy it.
‐‐ Anton du Beke

It may sound crazy, but maybe there's an economic way of producing a leather-like product in the laboratory.
‐‐ Jochen Zeitz