May Quotes

Very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.

You know so little of war. Battles may be fought from the outside in, but wars are won from the inside out.

Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.

Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.

She tips her chin up and looks at me with that Abnegation stubbornness I know so well. She may have left them, but they are what’s making her strong.

Compassion in action may be the glorious possibility that could protect our crowded, polluted planet.

May God be pleased to make it known to you, and fill you increasingly with His Spirit, so that through you it may be poured into the souls you guide, and your own soul may be more greatly sanctified!

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place.

Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me.

Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.

You thought you were found but you realize that you were lost, and someday you may discover that you're lost now.

Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.

So that I may meet the day with the knowledge to build the day I will look into my soul while it still dawn, before the morning breaketh.

Larger sums may be an advantage at some cases and a disadvantage at others.

Therefore, brethren, pray until God gives us revelation so that "knowing this" in our spirit we may truly confess "that our old man has been crucified with him."

The first great work (a task performed by few) Is that yourself may to yourself be true.

What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.

If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him.

Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.

Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.

"Chaunt in his ear delusions magical, That he may fight the horses of the sea." The Druids took them to their mystery, And chaunted for three days.

Among of green stiff old bright broken branch come white sweet May again

These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife.

An opportunity is a conjunction of circumstances by which one may improve his condition of life or his equipment for life.

Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.

We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.

Love may turn to indifference with possession.

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.

You know, by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. ... You may find you can get away with virtual presidents, virtual prime ministers, virtual everything.

When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.

You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.

Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.

Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be, Yet hold I off.

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.

Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!

Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.