May Quotes

Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime.

It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so easily fall prey to nonsense.

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

I may be boring, but it would be to wake up by my dog and then my daughter.

Election is always to sanctification. Where there is no visible fruit of sanctification, we may be sure there is no election.

If the Bible is uniquely and inerrantly inspired, then we have certainty; we may know real truth about God

War may break out unexpectedly. Wars are not declared, nowadays. They simply start.

Will you love me in December as you do in May?

I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction, but it has to be true.

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.

The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.

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

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction.

They who know most of God on earth or heaven know that they know little after all; but they know that they may know more and more of Him throughout eternal ages.

Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.

We may not have a sample size larger than one, or we may not have unlimited resources - it's a TV show, and we generally turn these things around in about a week or so.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Winning means some kind of approval of the Establishment which means people will more readily accept me, may be less frightened of me and other people who speak out.

The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

According to federal reports filed yesterday, the Obama campaign spent more money than they raised in the month of May. They spent more money than they raised? Well, that's called being a Democrat

You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.

Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act upon it with sovereign ease.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.

Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Fischer, who may or may not be mad as a hatter, has every right to be horrified

There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.

People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that's left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.

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

If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.

The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men.

Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.

Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments.

One of the dangers of being here [the Senate] a while is you may have been on record directly and diametrically opposed to what one is saying today.

He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.

Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.

We should have charity for what the dead say. We may disapprove of what they say, but we should not insult them and revile them knowing they cannot not defend themselves.

Privacy in one's associations... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.

If Home is where the heart is then may your Home be blessed . . .

What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow - inside.