May Quotes

Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk.

Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.

I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.

I may not get there with you, but I believe that we as a people will someday reach the promised land.

The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.

There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.

A lot of people don't enjoy their job, they may even hate it, but I am lucky enough to be able to make a living through my passion.

Entrepreneurship may be the most under-taught subject.

What may create even more jobs is to develop more entrepreneurs, of course, ethical ones.

Being a good writer may result in your being nicer to more people, having a bigger positive impact.

When the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it. It is then that the world is made to listen to her message, though it may hate it at first.

[The disestablishment of religion] may not have been such a good idea.

There is never a Jewish community without its scholars, but where Jews may not be both intellectuals and Jews, they prefer to remain Jews.

Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.

... the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.

One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.

The truth which may not be told, is the truth which cannot be told.

By freely choosing to believe God's promises, a person's faith may be more strongly embraced and, therefore, less likely to falter in times of struggle, sadness, or other such difficulties.

May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each kindly thing, forgetting what might sting.

We cannot leave the expression of our lives to those better qualified than we are, however dear they may be.

My timing is off. But I had to get it out. Some things you have to tell, no matter how stupid they may sound. Some things you can't save for later. There might not be a later.

I hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.

I appeal: Learn with me the lessons of history and of grace, so my children will not be afraid to say the word 'AIDS' when I am gone. Then, their children and yours may not need to whisper it at all.

And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.

Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.

However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.

Do you think a man is the only creature with whom one may fall in love?

Some people say that beauty is a curse. It may be true, but I'm sure I should not have at all minded being cursed a little.

In my whole life, I've never vomited from seeing something disgusting. Does it really even happen, outside of movies and TV? I believe it may be a myth.

Old men make wars that young men may die.

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

It is clearly absurd that it should be possible for a woman to qualify as a saint with direct access to the Almighty, while she may not qualify as a curate.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.

Our prayer will never grow obsolete, no matter what other ideas or philosophies may appear, or what other measures may be taken

We're renting the space that we call Earth, so we may as well just go for it.

Through my former experiences, writing poetry and learning other languages leading up to English I find ways to stitch words together that may seem a bit odd, but somehow, sometimes they do work.

The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.

Studying the past may suggest new ways of going wrong.

God may be a human creation, but He goes His way, not ours.

Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.

Laughter and tears may not persuade, but they cannot be refuted.

Aphorisms may equivocate, but they must not wobble.

We may eat dinner together, but everyone puts the food in his own mouth.

I may forget my dignity, but you may not.

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

Every life has a love story, even though the beloved may be imaginary, or a cat.