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May Quotes by Daniel Handler
- One's home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy evening - the best piece…
- The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as…
- You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see…
- Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and…
- When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it…
- And a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, "If you don't give me a…
- At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you…
- You may want to keep a commonplace book which is a notebook where you can copy parts of books you think are in code, or…
- Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations…
- Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.
- Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.
- I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong. You can look at a painting for the first time,…
- Everything. A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be coded, and…
- and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.
- You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.
- Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional… — Michele Bachmann