May Quotes
The Shell The sea fills my ear with sand and with fear. You may wash out the sand, but never the sound of the ghost of the sea that is haunting me.
The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.
You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world.
When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes.
Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality.
That goes with the saying that you call on God a lot of times and you pray for things and it may not happen at that moment.
I may be a public figure, but really, I'm just like a guy who could be in your family and have some difficult things happen to him.
I didn't know who my daddy was until I was 10 or 12. Surprising as it may seem, he was living right across the street.
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but her's curiosity could have massacred a pride of lions.
It is a mistake trying to cheer up camels. You may as well drop meringues into a black hole.
Fascism may be good at making the trains run on time, but you wouldn't like some of the destinations.
This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published.
I’ll be damned,” he muttered.“Most likely.” She folded the blanket with efficient snaps. “And I may be joining you, after what we just did.
Anglers may be divided into almost as many genera and species as the fish they catch, and engage in the sport from as many impulses.
No research will answer all queries that the future may raise. It is wiser to praise the work for what it has accomplished and then to formulate the problems still to be solved.
Never despair of a child. The one you weep the most for at the mercy-seat may fill your heart with the sweetest joys.
God sometimes washes the eyes of His children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments.
It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.
Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.
Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.
War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.
I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.
Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen.
You can start a documentary with just a camera, as opposed to a fiction film where you need actors, a crew, a script, a lot more start-up resources. It may be self-perpetuating.
If thou may not continually gather thyself together, do it sometime at least once a day, morning or evening.
Thus Angels' Bread is made The Bread of man today: The Living Bread from Heaven With figures doth away: O wondrous gift indeed! The poor and lowly may Upon their Lord and Master feed.
No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men.
In after-life you may have friends--fond, dear friends; but never will you have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you which none but a mother bestows.
It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.
For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.
That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny: but have no confidence in those which are fathered on the dead.
When it's over, we may feel wooed, adored, appreciated, or abused, but it will have been an affair to remember.
History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.
A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.
On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal.