May Quotes

This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.

If your practice is good, you may become proud of it. What you do is good, but something more is added to it. Pride is extra. Right effort is to get rid of something extra.

A strong egoism is a protection against disease, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order that we may not fall ill, and must fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we cannot love.

Talk in order that I may see you.

Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.

Misfortune may become fortune through patience.

Time travel may be possible, but it is not practical.

There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.

M.I.T. has a reputation for turning out Dilberts. They may be brilliant in what they do, but no one can understand what they say.

The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.

If your prayers haven't been answered, it doesn't mean they won't be answered. In fact, they may have already been answered, but just not in the way you wanted or expected them to be.

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory.

It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.

No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.

My thinking changes all the time. People may read an interview I gave a year before and assume that's who I still am. But usually I've changed altogether.

Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach.

We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.

A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.

I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.

The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.

While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.

If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.

There may not be a great job for [Aboriginal people] but whatever there is, they just have to do it, and if it’s picking up rubbish around the community, it just has to be done.

You may have seen have seen me in such places as your local market in a tabloid.

you and I are close, we intertwine; you may stand on the other side of the hill once in awhile, but you may also be me while remaining what you are and what I am not.

Follow the tugs in your heart. I think that everybody gets these gentle urges and should listen to them. Even if they sound absolutely insane, they may be worth going for.

Any time you get a chance to play a great role, I consider all the qualities I may or may not have attributed to that character and how I would fit into the story.

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.

Every one of us may know what is the ruling purpose of his life; and he who knows that his ruling purpose is to trust and follow Christ knows that he is a Christian.

The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls.

More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.

No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.

The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

Over fertilized plants may be beautiful but are otherwise useless, like people whose energies are devoted so completely to their appearance that there is no other development.

The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary.

That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.

Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.

Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.

When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.

In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of all that is revered.

May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.