May Quotes
Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to carry you into another world.
Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.
I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures.
The sacred attitude is, then, one of deep and fundamental respect for the real in whatever new form it may present itself.
I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I may reduce to type.
Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.
Marriages are said to be made in Heaven, which may be why they don't work here on Earth.
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
Have a vision and then create your own reality. Otherwise, someone else may create it for you.
If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling.
May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.
Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.
Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
A mistaken thought may be corrected easily, but an errant affection is nearly unmanageable.
May the things of this world so lose their power over us that we do not in the slightest wish to be 'worldly'; nay, we even delight in not remaining 'in the world.'
Believers must persevere in prayer that they may see clearly their own pitiful state and understand the indwelling, working, and demands of the Holy Spirit.
We may infer from any defeat of ours that it is due either to lack of faith or failure to obey. No other reason can suffice.
Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.
Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.
What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.
The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.
The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.
O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness
A winner's attitude: it may be difficult, but it's possible. A loser's attitude: It may be possible, but it's too difficult.
May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.
There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke.
And, yes, words matter. They may reflect reality, but they also have the power to change reality - the power to uplift and to abase.
If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.
Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take.
Today I may way before an awestruck world; I am still master of my fate. I am still captain of my soul.
You may lose people you love. You may lose things you had.. but no matter what, never lose yourself.
An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.
The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional.
We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream.
The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own.
But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.
It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.
I may not be much good at most things, but if I didnt have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.
For the majority of the time, I may as well have been just a really tan white kid. You know, I may as well have just been, like, a fat kid.
One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.