May Quotes

It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.

We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.

To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.

Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion. The woman's sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion

However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.

The pleasure and value of every walk or journey we take may be doubled to us by carefully noting down the impressions it makes upon us.

In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.

One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.

The best way to ensure success is to start growing today. No matter where you may be starting from, don't be discouraged; everyone who got where he is started where he was.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.

It is a very important consideration that we are consecrated and dedicated to God; it means that we may think, speak, meditate, or do anything only with a view to his glory.

The thing about cats, as you may find, Is that no one knows what they have in mind.

Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget everything else, there are few limitations to the happiness we may enjoy.

And a wandering beauty is a blade out of its scabbard.You know how dangerous, gentlemen of threescore?May you know it yet ten more.

Sometimes what I'm looking for is the thing that will help renew people's interest in a writer that they may have written off as not their kind of writer.

May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.

Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those.

A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt.

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.

A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human beings separated thousands of miles from each other than exists between dwellers under the same roof.

Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even more truly than some of the things close to him.

Society not only continues to exist by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication.

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

It's good to be around people who see [photography] as a reasonable enterprise when everyone in the neighborhood may think it's ridiculous. (On the benefit of teaching photography)

Filled with her love, may I be rather grown Mad with much heart, than idiot with none.

To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.

That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.

Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.

The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.

Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.

Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words.

A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to makea malefactordiesweetly was only belonging toher husband.

Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no further knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose.

Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as the prince's son.

The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.

The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may.

I do not say that all men are equal in their ability, character and motivation. I do say that every American should be given a fair chance to develop all the talents they may have.

Last year, more Americans went to symphonies than went to baseball games. This may be viewed as an alarming statistic, but I think that both baseball and the country will endure.

I must say that though other days may not be so bright, as we look toward the future, that the brightest days will continue to be those we spent with you here in Ireland.

Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman.

Iraq may not be the war on terror itself, but it is critical to the outcome of the war on terror, and therefore any advance in Iraq is an advance forward in that.

You may believe you're an excellent rider," he called, "but there are a score of Temujai back there who actually are.

Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all.

They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction. 'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.

And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.