May Quotes
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Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not at all the same person, when I handed the manuscript to the publisher, as I had been when I began. A memoir may always be retrospective, but the past is not where its action takes place.
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Sometimes I get a call from my bank, and the first thing they ask is, 'Mr. Mitnick, may I get your account number?' And I'll say, 'You called me! I'm not giving you my account number!'
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I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.
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The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.
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We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.
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It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
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The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.
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I don't type fast. I type with three fingers - two on one hand, and I only get one going on the other. I think my thumb's in there, but I'm not sure. I may be no better than an orangutan when it comes to that.
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You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world.
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You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
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My writing process is chaos. I usually start with an overarching theme. Then I establish several story threads, but I don't outline. I just start writing and keep notes for what may come. It's an organic process that's usually pretty flexible.
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He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.
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Of my meritOn thet pint you yourself may jedge;All is, I never drink no sperit,Nor I haint never signed no pledge.
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People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
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Even the mundane task may have something to teach you - especially if it's a task you haven't performed before.
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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
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As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.
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When you look back at your own story, you may find out that not every 't' was crossed and every 'i' was dotted.
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You cheated on your wife? You did it, live with it. You fuck little girls, so be it. There's an absolute morality? May be. And then what?
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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
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Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.
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Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information.
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Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you.
