May Quotes
We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.
The time at length arrives, when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed a sacrilege, is not banished.
Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.
Children are entitled to life. We conceive them and so we owe them our care and our protection. This may not be a dictate of law anymore, but it is a dictate of love.
Out of the current confusion of ideals and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity.
You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.
I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.
The next time you are called to suffer, pay attention. It may be the closest you'll ever get to God.
Not every thought is a flower; some are thorns. But while a flower may make you fall asleep and too see dreams, a thorn will wake you up and make you to think!
Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how, or are willing, to employ.'
Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.
When I get sick, I go to my doctor like everyone else. A doctor has powerful tools that may help me. Or those tools may hurt me, make me worse. I have to decide. It's my life. It's my responsibility.
One cannot love a world. It is too large. But a fleck of ground so far as his eye can see, one may hold precious above all.
Go out there and do your part to change the world. You may not change all you had hoped but the world will be better for the caring demonstrated by your effort.
It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.
If the Americans attack Iran for the first time in 1,400 years, we may unite Sunnis and Shias against us. So I guess there is room for accomplishment everywhere.
Go to countries where you don't speak the language. Eat food that looks like you may not like it. Read all of the holy books.
You may not do well, necessarily, up front, and in order to be the best, you've got to work hard.
One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
You may never reach a solution, but you're never absolved from the responsibility of trying.
Planning your own coming-of-age experience may wither you prematurely, but just think of it this way: If you can get through this, childbirth should be a breeze.
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.
Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.
I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.
Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.
Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.
Take inventory of yourself, see if any remnants of fear are standing in your way. Then you may grow... because nothing, absolutely nothing, can stand in your way.
I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
The sun will shine again. No matter... how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.
Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; that all may live above the troubles of life; that worry is a poison and happiness a medicine.
If you get angry easily, it may be because the seed of anger in you has been watered frequently over many years, and unfortunately you have allowed it or even encouraged it to be watered.
Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.
I am a person who believes in the good of people and who may have had things influence them to a certain degree, but deep down I think most people are good and would like to be good.
Scientists believe they may have discovered a primitive form of life on Jupiter's moon Europa. That primitive form of life? You guessed it, Frank Stallone.
Our passions may be compared to certain slaves--the more severity we show them, the better they obey us.
Intelligence and the spirit of adventure can be combined to create new energies, and out of these energies may come exciting and rewarding new prospects.
Medicines may be necessary. Flowers lift the heart. But your smile is the best restorative of all.
Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.
When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped under that description.
You should know that there are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.