May Quotes

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.

It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.

The May of life blooms once and never again.

Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!

An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.

Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.

Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the other below it.

I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may . . .

To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.

Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."

"I shouldn't have done that," I said. That was when I kissed him again. May God forgive me for this and all these things I've done.

I may be a werewolf and Scottish, but despite what you may have read about both, we are not cads!

Fate...may...be...thwarted.

It may not seem like much, but think of the consequences. One overdue library book today, the collapse of the universe by the end of the week.

I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.

After spending some time with my soul mate I have come to the conclusion that I may have something wrong with my soul

I may very well move in. I just don't know. I can't sit here and know what pictures I'm going to take.

May I say that I approve of a piece that tries to remake the entire puzzle?

The getting out part [of advise] may well be true. Because if you have tried the tender love thing... typically the abuser is not going to change until they are pushed in a corner.

Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.

Touring with Brian May was like a dream come true that happened early in my career. He inspired me with the way he harmonized and layered his guitar sounds.

May was so great to work with, he even took me over to Japan for some dates. It blew me away when he let me play his guitar on stage with him.

The circumstances of your life are neither good nor bad. They are appropriate to the needs of your soul. They may or may not be what your personality desires.

A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.

Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in my life. Maybe that's the thing with liberation. It comes at a price.

My ex—may he soon discover tiny worms have invaded his body and are slowly eating him alive—once told me God made men so perfect because He'd wanted to make up for the inadequacies of women.

According to the reports we have gathered, mostly from the refugees, it appears that around 10,000 people have been killed in more than 100 massacres. The final toll may be much worse.

What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.

For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.

These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.

To my mind by far the greatest danger in scholarship...is not that the individual may fail to master the thought of a school but that a school may succeed in mastering the thought of the individual.

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

When I lose direction, it becomes very hard to write. I actually get a physical pain, as if my subconscious knows better. That may sound mystical and pretentious, but it's true.

If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation!

Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.

You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!

My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.