May Quotes

Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during a dark night in February.

Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.

A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.

Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.

I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention.

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.

They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again.

Making a choice is like backing a horse - in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly.

I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.

[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has all the character of a great epic.

Such events may be disbelieved or disregarded; but the charity of a bishop, Acacius of Amida, whose name might have dignified the saintly calendar, shall not be lost in oblivion.

I feel that I am doing the minimum amount of damage to other possibilities that may take place in a reader's head.

Whatever else the Norman Conquest may or may not have done, it made the old haphazard state of legal affairs forever impossible.

One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings - meanings which may in fact contradict each other.

A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and inspired may justly be regarded as simply and plainly inconceivable.

Other books we may read and criticise. To the Scriptures we must bow the entire soul, with all its faculties.

I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.

I think the most interesting stuff comes from people who've just got nothing to lose. You know, let's kamikaze this thing - just throw themselves in it, devil may care.

A given order may at any given time fail to represent those values, even work against those values. I think that's the dynamic we're seeing today.

You may be a dreadful failure. Christ is a divine success. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

Youth is not rich in time; it may be poor; Part with it as with money, sparing; pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.

And all may do what has by man been done.

However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it's about telling stories that are engaging and dramatic.

I wonder more and more just where I may have come out if I had never seen Harvard Square.

You can give a great film idea to a mediocre team and they may screw it up, but if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will turn it into a great film.

The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.

It takes something of a poet to apprehend and get into the depth, the lusciousness, the spiritual life of a great poem. And so we must be in some way like God in order that we may see God as He is.

[Nuclear war]... may not be desirable.

A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries ago.

No doubt, there are times when I'm like "We have all gotten really used to saying whatever the f - k we want to say," and it's something that I really take seriously, whatever that may be.

I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.

Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and I’m not going to condemn their lifestyle so gratuitously.

practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength.

To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.

We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy.

I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism.

At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to written questions.

I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead

Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.

I think those governments who resent religion, they're afraid of religion because religion may be in their eyes, in their views be seen as a counter government or a parallel government.

I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.

I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.

It may be said of happy marriages as of the phoenix - there is but one a century.

Think of this- we may live together with Him here and now, a daily walking with Him who loved us and gave Himself for us.