May Quotes

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

A man may be carried on in a constant course of mortification all his days; and yet perhaps never enjoy a good day of peace and consolation.

The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

One may not reach the dawn save by path of night.

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.

All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.

Your children....are like diamonds...they may need polish.. and education of the right kind will impart this lustre.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

Evil will never find peace. It may triumph, but it will never find peace

Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.

I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike!

Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men.

This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.

We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.

Scripture urges and warns us that whatever favors we may have obtained from the Lord, we have received them as a trust on condition that they should be applied to the common benefit of the church.

They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.

A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

God's eternal decree certainly rendered the entrance of sin into the world certain, but this may not be interpreted so as to make God the cause of sin in the sense of being its responsible author

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be

A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it may be made to move.

American labor may now look to the future with confidence.

You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.

Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!

Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don; And through the blue heavens above us The very clouds move on.

Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.

Just know that if you want to be a boxer you're going to get your face beaten constantly but then you may end up being a Mayweather or an Ali at the end of the day.

Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.

As labor creates the wealth of the country, we demand the passage of such laws as may be necessary to protect it in all its rights.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.

If something is worth doing you may as well go heart and soul and boot leather.

It may not be too late, whatever happens, if our President, Lyndon Johnson, knew the truth from me. But if I am eliminated, there won't be any way of knowing.

Do not make judgments, and you will travel no quicker road to the forgiveness of your sins. 'Judge not, so that you may not be judged' (Lk. 6:37).

I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.

He is not half through yet, and to what he will come in the end not even Elrond can foretell. Not to evil, I think. He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.