May Quotes

All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.

My most earnest wish is to see the republican element of popular control pushed to the maximum of its practicable exercise. I shall then believe that our government may be pure and perpetual.

Friends may come and go, but barbecues accumulate.

Hard as it may appear in individual instances , dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can be preached.

Loving service anonymously given may be unknown to man-but the gift and the giver are known to God.

To walk abroad is, not with eyes, But thoughts, the fields to see and prize; Else may the silent feet, Like logs of wood, Move up and down, and see no good, Nor Jor nor glory meet.

A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.

If you are animated by right principles, and are fully awakened to the true dignity of life, the subject of amusements may be left to settle itself.

No matter how bad you may feel, get up, show up, dress up, and never, ever give up.

In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems

One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do.

Even the heart in time may grow cold.

The new-school hip-hop generation exists with a mandate to 'keep it real'; this has to do with embracing a hard-nosed truth about the world and letting the chips fall where they may.

I wonder if one can view risk like a drug, beneficial to the organism in the proper dose. Too much or too little may be harmful.

And though the symptons of lovesickness may be many, they all share a single cause and single cure: you.

May God have mercy on your souls. May God bless your souls.

The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be unearthly, but they are not for us.

My performances may have elements that some may find entertaining, but that's not my main purpose.

A wait-and-see policy may mean waiting until it is too late.

Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.

You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!

You may have crap that wants to drag you down, but if you really like what you're doing, then there's always a silver lining.

Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them.

Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend his pride, are oftentimes not to a king divulged.

For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.

Peace without energy may be only stagnation; and energy without peace may be but a form of panic.

The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.

I share what I know, so that others may grow!

Every banker knows that if he has to prove that he is worthy of credit, however good may be his arguments, in fact his credit is gone: but what we have requires no proof.

We therefore need to know the gifts given us by God, so that we may use them, for by these we shall be saved.

In painting, whether colour reflection is apparent or not, every hue must echo neighbouring hues, so that homogeneity may be attained.

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.

Much of the stress you experience may be created by recognizing a problem and doing nothing about it.

Once you love, you cannot take it back, cannot undo it. What you felt may have changed, shifted slightly, yet still remains love.

I believe that eclecticism is a virtue. It may not be a word, but its definitely a virtue.

We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.

And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.

Thought is a garment and the soul's a bride That cannot in that trash and tinsel hide: Hatred of God may bring the soul to God.

A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.

The differences between the received wisdom, the standard version of events, and the facts on the ground may be subtle or they may be stark, even profound.

We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies.

We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.

The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.

So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date.

Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended.

Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value.

The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.

The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.