May Quotes
The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance in the finished product. The subject is of no aesthetic significance.
I hate to think that we may be out there seven to ten years out and dependent on the Russians for our journey into space.
You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.
Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else.
I am confident, however old-fashioned this may sound, that funds left in the hands of the public will come into the Exchequer with interest at the time in the future when we need them.
When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance.
The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.
Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire.
Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.
Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.
One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.
In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.
Assurance encourateth us in our combat; it delivers us not from it. We may have peace with God when we have done from the assaults of Satan.
One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.
We know the redemption must come. The time and the manner of its coming we know not: It may come in peace, or it may come in blood; but whether in peace or in blood, LET IT COME.
If, like Jacob, you trust God in little things, He may answer you by great things.
I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.
If you're falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly. You've got nothing to lose.
To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.
There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them,--by laying them out in charity.
There was a perception that the emerging-market problems aren't over and concern that may Brazil devalue.
Wherever you may go Wherever you may have been Saying goodbye is fine If you say hello again
Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.
Rediscovery in the library may be a more difficult and uncertain process than the first discovery in the laboratory.
You may be better than the rest, but you are not a success until you have made the effort to become the best you can be.
Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.
I do think that we may be looking at a period in the next few years where the two-party system will fracture.
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf?
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.
Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.
We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.
Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent.
So now, I exhort you with this truth: Don't spend all your life playing it safe! Safety is very comfortable, but it may be keeping you from God's perfect plan for your life.
Do not be deceived by the outward appearance of age or youth - a new pitcher may be full of good, old wine, while an old one may be totally empty.
