May Quotes

Heroism is an extraordinary feat of the flesh; holiness is an ordinary act of the spirit. One may bring personal glory; the other always gives God glory.

A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.

It is thus that you may lead a charmed life and be forever protected from all harm; it is thus you may become a positive force whereby conditions of opulence and harmony may be attracted to you.

People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.

Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that it may be endurable is an extraordinarily troublesome matter.

Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph

Government is afraid that people may think the worst and panic about these creepy horrible invaders. So the idea is: We have to avoid panic by all means.

Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word.

Oh that I may never loiter on my heavenly journey.

We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.

When April steps aside for May, Like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten; Fresh violets open every day: To some new bird each hour we listen.

The fish you release maybe a gift to another, as it may have been a gift to you.

We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice, forever whispering within our ear, that thing which causes the eternal quest, that thing which forever sings and sings.

Certain other societies may respect the rule of force--we respect the rule of law.

I may as well cut my losses and make a hasty exit while I still had enough self-esteem to walk upright. Crawling was so demoralizing

God hath not revealed anything to Joseph, but what he will make known unto the Twelve, and even the least Saint may know all things as fast as he is able to bear them.

Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

I think that the more people go through their own personal initiations, the less collective destruction may be unleashed on the planet.

A woman who is starved for her real soul-life may look 'cleaned up and combed' on the outside, but on the inside she is filled with dozens of pleading hands and empty mouths.

If our zeal is embittered by expressions of anger, invective, or scorn—we may think we are doing service of the cause of truth, when in reality we shall only bring it into discredit!

A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent.

We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.

We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.

The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.

One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly.

You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.

Satan may build a hedge about us and fence us in and hinder our movements, but he cannot roof us in and prevent our looking up.

A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.

Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable.

The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.

You have a choice. It may not be a choice you like, but it is still a choice.

The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.

You don't have to transcend something that you have no interest in... it may come but it finds no food.

If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass on to Western man the lost secret of life's sweetness.

Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.

I may be accused or rashness, but not sluggishness.

Bharat for Bhutan and Bhutan for Bharat. The colour of our passports may be different but our thinking is the same. India stands committed to Bhutan's happiness and progress.

Nature may reach the same result in many ways.

Nothing may truly be said to be a miracle except in the profound sense that everything is a miracle.

Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.

When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.

Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and kill life on the planet.

Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.

Do you believe in god? I have no need for that hypothesis, he may be around though.