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May Quotes by John Steinbeck
- If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it-bypass it and go on. When you have…
- If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced that there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to…
- A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. The events, the…
- We may be thankful that frightened civil authorities ... have not managed to eradicate from the country the tradition of the possession and use of…
- But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance, with bravado, or…
- What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.
- I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving…
- But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potentially moral…
- I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.
- I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the…
- Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.
- This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow…
- It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our…
- In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms
- For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he…
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
- 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
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- 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
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong