May Quotes

A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.

The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.

Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life?

He who sleeps without offering the night prayer, may he never enjoy a sound sleep.

Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.

God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.

A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.

Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.

Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.

Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind.

Onward we stagger, and if the tanks come, may God help the tanks.

At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.

I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

I'm not the type of guy to go out and just say, 'Hey, I'm raising my fist to do this and do that.' I don't think I'm that type of guy. I wasn't a leader the way other people may have wanted me to be.

Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Taste may change, but inclination never.

Nay, if there be any mistakes in the Bible, there may as well be a thousand. If there be one falsehood in that book, it did not come from the God of truth

I think [Obamacare] will survive. Or it may be called something else. And as I said I don't don't mind.

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...th at in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing-you may know that your society is doomed.

I may not be able to say all I think; but I am not going to say anything I do not think.

I learn to love the thing that has to be erased, the thing I may not be allowed to keep, sand that runs away beneath my running feet.

Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then you will be able to say, I found my hero and he is me.

...Art itself may be defined as a single minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth, manifold and one, underlying its every aspect.

People say, "How do you write songs?" I say, "Patience." I may have a track that's hot, but no words. I'll just let it sit for years, because I know they're going to meet. They'll find it.

Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.

Whoever you are, or want to be, you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.

Not to dream more boldly may turn out to be, in view of present realities, simply irresponsible.

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the destiny we create for ourselves in this world.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.

Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls.

Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!

Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved.

a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.

I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!

In spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women.

We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time.

It may be that there is such a thing as racial memory, and it is supported by the undeniable observation that the goblins will get you if you don't watch out.

No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.

The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished.

Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world.

The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of Kings.

It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.