May Quotes

Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.

However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation — to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our co-workers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.

Knowledge is a terrible burden. It may help you, but it might also destroy you.

When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

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.

Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love

We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.

Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be"ﾂ巴ut that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run the risk of turning away one honest petition.

From a little spark may burst a flame.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Your lifestyle - how you live, eat, emote, and think - determines your health. To prevent disease, you may have to change how you live.

Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit.

Say not: "When I have free time I shall study", for you may perhaps never have any free time

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is not that - if it is not moral in its effect - then love is no more than an exaggerated form of pleasure.

you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.

The many of us who attain what we may and forget those who help us along the line we've got to remember that there are so many others to pull along the way. The farther they go, the further we all go.

However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.

What you perceive as "liberal" is my independence to choose what i do, with whom, and when. Moreover, it also means that i may choose not to do it, with anyone, ever.

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you may have.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you

A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.

A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Be aware that you can truly help people only by aiding them to become what they are, not what you are. I have heard you say 'If I were you, I would do this, or that.' 'I' am never 'you'—and my solutions may not be yours.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.

I wish the state of enthusiasm I am now in may last, for today I FELT there is a God. I have been devotional and my mind has been led away from the follies that it is mostly wrapped up in.

May all that is unlived in you blossom into a future graced with love.

I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.

May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time.

That when we live no more, We may live ever

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

God has given us many faiths but only one world in which to co-exist. May your work help all of us to cherish our commonalities and feel enlarged by our differences.

Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.

Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.

Introverted feeling types have a wealth of warmth and enthusiasm, but they may not show it until they know someone well. They wear their warm side inside, like a fur-lined coat.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.

You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

You have to remember. . .that for this little boy whom you have met, his life is just as important to him, as your life is to you. No matter how insufficient or how shabby it may seem to some, it is the only one he has.

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

The porcupine, which one must handle gloved, may be respected, but is never loved.

The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves.

God arranges everything for us, so that we need have no more fear or trouble and may be quite sure that all things will come right in the end.

But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.

It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.

We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.

To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter woods and find the buds which will resurrect that beauty in another May is to partake of continuity.

Look at it this way: There are many here among us for whom the life force is best represented by the livid twitching of one tortured nerve, or even a full-scale anxiety attack. I do not subscribe to this point of view 100 percent, but I understand it, have lived it. Thus the shriek, the caterwaul, the chainsaw gnarlgnashing, the yowl and the whizz that decapitates may be reheard by the adventurous or emotionally damaged as mellifluous bursts of unarguable affirmation.

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.

We may be surrounded by some greater reality, to which we are oblivious. And even if we could somehow perceive it in some entirely new way, it is extremely doubtful we would be able to comprehend what we perceived.

As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.

Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

But I could never have done it," he objected, "without everyone else's help." "That may be true," said Reason gravely,"but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.

A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much good, and almost anything he may say may do a great deal of harm. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. He is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

Technology is an inherent democratizer. Because of the evolution of hardware and software, you're able to scale up almost anything. It means that in our lifetime everyone may have tools of equal power.

Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.

My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.

Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

Every once in awhile we may fall on our face, but we insist on doing what we wanna do.

Even if I did speak Irish, I’d always be considered an outsider here, wouldn’t I? I may learn the password but the language of the tribe will always elude me, won’t it? The private core will always be ...hermetic, won’t it?

God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.

Stain my eyes as I may, on all sides all is black.

Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger Across a crowded room.

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.

We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar.

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.

The development of willpower -I will, I won't and I want- may define what it means to be human.

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

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

It may be said of them [the Hollanders], as of the Spaniards, that the sun never sets upon their Dominions.

An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.

Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.

I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

There are various art forms we may or may not have talent for, may or may not have time for, and we may or may not be able to express ourselves in, but we ought to consider this fact-that whether we choose to be an environment or not, we are. We produce an environment other people have to live in. We should be conscious of the fact that this environment which we produce by our very 'being' can affect the people who live with us or work with us.

The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining may have been his highest purpose. (introduction to Gladiator, Book League Monthly, 1930)

For it ne sits not unto fresh May Forto be coupled to cold January.

I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It.

I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.

One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.

In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.

They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

Because if one has an image, however dim and romantic, of a journey's end, one may, in the end, surely reach it, after no matter how many detours and deceptions and abandonings of hope. And hope could never have been entirely abandoned, even in the worst days.

It may not be written in any book, but it is written - You can't go back, you can't repeat the unrepeatable.

Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge.

Well may we say 'God save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General'.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place.

Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?

Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in one another.

Golf may be a hussy, but I love her.

Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the poem, painting, play or novel does not immediately engage one's surface interest then it has failed. Whatever else it may or may not be, art is also entertainment. Bad art fails to entertain. Good art does something in addition.

I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.

We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.

If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

It's our contention that equity may be in the money, depending on where the liabilities lie.

Like faith, marriage is a mystery. The person you're committed to spending your life with is known and yet unknown, at the same time remarkably intimate and necessarily other. The classic seven-year itch may not be a case of familiarity breeding ennui and contempt, but the shock of having someone you thought you knew all too well suddenly seem a stranger. When that happens, you are compelled to either recommit to the relationship or get the hell out. There are many such times in a marriage.

Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.

I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.

I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.

He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks.

Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all.

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.

Sometimes God calls a person to unbelief in order that faith may take new forms.

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.

A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.

The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested.

It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else.

May God .. let me strive for attainable things.

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.

No department or locality may, or will be allowed to, interfere in the affairs which should be administered by [the SAR] on its own,

One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

Spring is a true reconstructionist.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.

The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.

The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By using them, one may draw any conclusion he pleases and that is why these series have produced so many fallacies and so many paradoxes.

Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out.

one may be my very good friend, and yet not of my opinion ...

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all God's commandments, making conscience even of little sins and little duties.

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnable, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.

In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.

Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain, you may be doing some good work.

Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting.

The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.

I may not be a great actress but I've become the greatest at screen orgasms. Ten seconds of heavy breathing, roll your head from side to side, simulate a slight asthma attack and die a little.

If it hadn't been for the videocassette, I may not have had a career at all.

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.

May your first word be adventure and last word love.

The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it.

The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.

Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.