L S May Quotes

I know there are some voices calling for a punitive deal that punishes Britain. That would be an act of calamitous self-harm for the countries of Europe, and it would not be the act of a friend.

It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.

I will never shrink from speaking truth to power.

A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.

We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.

Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.

People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.

People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.

Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.

Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

We're twins, and so we love each other more than other people.

You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.

life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.

You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is “I don’t know”.

Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.

For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them.

Take earth for your own large room and the floor of earth carpeted with sunlight and hung round with silver wind for your dancing place.

Britain and the United States have an enduring and special relationship based on the values of freedom, democracy and enterprise.

I used to pray that God would do this or that; now I pray that God will make His will known to me.

Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.

Receptivity requires a nimbleness, a fine-honed sensitivity in order to let one's self be the vehicle of whatever vision may emerge.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.

My biggest goal for the future is motherhood.

Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.

Money is a needful and precious thing

Every house needs a grandmother in it.

There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.

Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul.

It takes two flints to make a fire.

... if one does not have wild dreams of achievement, there is no spur even to get the dishes washed. One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.

Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

I live in a very dangerous part of Los Angeles? it's called Los Angeles.

Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.

For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.

Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.

Rest, rest, rest, rest, rest. Nutrition is obviously very important, but rest is equally important. At rest is when your body is trying to recover.

On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.

We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us.

A good video can make all the difference

I believe it's important that we ensure that the police have a modern and flexible workforce. I think that's what is necessary, so that they can provide the public with the service that they want.

I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.