May Quotes

Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes.

What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.

It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.

You may be old, you may be in your third act, but you can still be vital and sexual and funny. Life isn't over.

And always I have this feeling--which may not be true at all--that I am being used as a messenger.

It may sound trite, but young people really are the future.

It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow-moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if such exist, but it is a waste of time.

It may feel like the more you know about depression and the many forms it can take, the more questions you have. That's how I feel.

Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.

I may not remember, but I never forget.

Wood may remain twenty years in the water, but it is still not a fish.

If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in harmony or in conflict with the background.

I may not be the most patient woman in the world, or the most glamorous, or the most athletic, but I'm right up there at the top of the line when it comes to resiliency.

In Paris there are few changes; one always finds one's niche there when one returns - no matter how long one may have been away.

I wrote my children's book because I believe there are children that are hurting and may need to know that there is love out there for them- God's love.

You have to create a bespoke cultural environment. I know this may be a kind of thing that an old person says, but I feel to quite a large extent I was reared by the TV I watched.

After my first No. 1 song back in 2006, I worried I may never have another one.

Parking at a garage is like going to a prostitute. Why pay for it when you can apply yourself, and then may be you can get it for free.

Do not pick up the pen unless you understand how heavy it is, and how long you may carry it for.

Because it may seem like a small role now, but it matters. In the end, everything matters.

It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down.

In his speech last night, John Kerry said this was the beginning of the end of the Bush administration. I agree. Sure, it may take another five years, but this is it.

The big rumor going around is, we may begin bombing Iraq. Or, as the White House calls it, Operation Keep Enron Off The Front Page.

You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.

This great American institution [Boy Scouts of America] has come under attack from homosexual activists-who may well set their sights on your church next.

You do see some people that can contort themselves all the way around, but they may have been practicing for years, they may be gymnasts or they may just be flexible.

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

It is in love with its limitless horizontality, as New York may be with its verticality.

You have your goals. They may be small goals or they may be large goals. As you strive to achieve your goals, sometimes your conditions change and your goals will change as well.

Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the eyes of birds when we wish them to sing?

When you take a picture of someone, never show it to them right away. If they don't like it, they may erase it.

And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to let them have any cares until they grow up.

The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed the expression.

A great man may be the personification and type of the epoch for which God destines him, but he is never its creator.

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.

I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.

In Les Mots I explain the origin of my madness, of my neurosis. This analysis may help the young who dream of writing.

With a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better when the world has changed.

For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

It may be that there was no reason or purpose, for mankind must always be finding reasons where there are none, and comfort in a purpose that hardly exists.

Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.

You know, in addition to your mind-reading abilities, I may have absorbed some sluttiness from your blood.

Women in bed are like Diesel engines. What I mean by that is, it may take them a while to get going, but when you do, they can go for a long, long time. Whereas men are like... bottle rockets.

This Dewdrop World is a beautiful, courageous, intimate film about love and loss. It may also be the deepest meditation on climate change that I've ever seen.

It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.

Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century.