May Quotes

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

This may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about.. when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence

I use no Porter ... in my family, but such as is made in America: both these articles may now be purchased of an excellent quality.

Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.

Although the works of the Creator may be in themselves all equally perfect, the animal is, as I see it, the most complete work of nature, and man is her masterpiece.

I'm folding up my little dreams Within my heart tonight, And praying I may soon forget The torture of their sight.

Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance, even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic.

There's no way New Orleans will ever be the city it was. I think it will have half the population. They may create a sort of Disneyland at the French Quarter for tourists. The rest I don't know

The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.

When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

That which we have lived is nothing; that which we live is a point; that which we have to live is not yet a point, but may be a point which, together, shall be and shall have been.

You know, your clothes may say disco, but your eyes say rock n roll.

When I sing, I pick out people in the audience and pinpoint on them. So if you feel that I am singing just for you, you may be right!

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?

Evidence is strongly suggesting Bipolar Disorder - previously known as Manic Depression - may be dramatically increasing in modern society.

[Benjamin] Franklin may be a great philosopher, [John Adams] told his diary in 1779, but "as a Legislator in America he has done very little."

You can accept it that it may be true what somebody else says, but until you have experienced it, it is not dynamic to your own awareness.

Home may be near, Home may be far - But it is anywhere love And a few plain household treasures are.

The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.

But if we play it safe, the problem is that we may be losing out, and I believe we are.

Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of two may still leave you feeling lonely.

Love always has its price, come whence it may.

I am willing to walk toward, and then through, whatever may be seen in the moment as being greater than myself.

Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.

The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now.

An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

May your life be crowded with unexpected joys.

May your dreams defy the laws of gravity.

On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to make it humane and tolerable.

Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another.

Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance.

No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.

There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.

Conceptually, we may call truth what we cannot change; metaphorically, it is the ground on which we stand and the sky that stretches above us.

Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.

There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.

Don't get so busy that you don't have time to meditate. Take the time.... Christ may be nearer than we have knowledge. 'I am in your midst, but you do not see me.'

My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the readers opportunities to follow it at every step.

A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat.