Top 100 May We Quotes
#1. And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities ... ?
George Berkeley
#2. Here's to life in-the-black. May we wish it on our enemies. - Caleb
Pippa DaCosta
#3. Like Mary, may we nurture the light born within us at Christmas. May we carry it everywhere in our daily lives.
Pope Francis
#4. When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
Thomas Carlyle
#5. May we help more than we hurt, may we seek to understand more than be understood and may we love more than we judge.
Cory Booker
#6. Each and every one of us, at the end of the journey of life, will come face to face with either one or the other of two faces ... And one of them, either the merciful face of Christ or the miserable face of Satan, will say, "Mine, mine." May we be Christ's!
Fulton J. Sheen
#7. Lord, with so much violence in Iraq, may we persevere in our prayer and generosity.
Pope Francis
#9. May we live like the lotus, at home in muddy water.
Gautama Buddha
#10. May we be enlightened by a ray of the light that comes from Bethlehem, the light of He who is 'The Greatest' and made himself small.
Pope Benedict XVI
#11. May we be faithful followers of Christ, examples of righteousness, thus becoming lights in the world.
Thomas S. Monson
#12. Praying with You Lord, so often we are overwhelmed by all the tasks ahead of us. Today help us to turn our eyes to You so that we can discern between the truly important tasks and those that will not add any real value to our lives. May we look to You as our Peace today. Amen.
Sally Clarkson
#13. We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.
Tanith Lee
#14. May we, as image makers, shapers of the culture, set our sights on things we value, rituals we engage in that heal and serve. May our images honor the ordinary endeavors of common people, and may they make their way to the eyes of the weary - light to the dark, fire to the chill.
Jan Phillips
#15. May we realize how close to us He is willing to come, how far He is willing to go to help us and how much He loves us.
Thomas S. Monson
#16. This was our ambition: to be small and clear and free.
Alas, the summer's energy wanes quickly,
A moment and it is gone. And no longer
May we make the necessary arrangements, simple as they are.
Our star was brighter perhaps when it had water in it.
John Ashbery
#17. 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.
Thornton Wilder
#18. In that glorious day when we stand before our beloved Savior to report what we have done with His name, may we be able to declare: I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. I have honored Thy name.
Mervyn B. Arnold
#19. May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.
Scott Cairns
#20. May we exist like a lotus, / At home in the muddy water. / Thus we bow to life as it is.
Zen
#21. May we always see ourselves accurately as helpless sinners in need of grace, so that we never move beyond the cross or consider ourselves better than our worst enemies.
Barbara R. Duguid
#22. Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.
Lester B. Pearson
#23. A true saving knowledge of sin is to be had only in the Lord Christ: in him may we see the desert of our iniquities.
John Owen
#24. I don't know if we ever get over the ones we love. May we just get passed them.
Carol Ruckdeschel
#25. We can't direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude.
Thomas S. Monson
#26. Who are we? We are children of God. Our potential is unlimited. Our inheritance is sacred. May we always honor that heritage - in every thought and deed.
Russell M. Nelson
#27. Amid so many problems, even grave, may we not lose our hope in the infinite mercy of God.
Pope Francis
#28. Accepting the compromise of the way we have been, the way we are, and the way we will likely be ... may we live together in unwavering love and good health, amen.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#29. May we treasure the divine gift of communication, and may we use it wisely to build and to assist others on this marvelous journey through mortality.
L. Lionel Kendrick
#31. The past is a great darkness, and filled with echos. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and, try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day.
Margaret Atwood
#32. Though we tremble before uncertain futures
may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength
may we dance in the face of our fears.
Gloria E. Anzaldua
#33. Where there is discord may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. Where there is despair, may we bring hope.
Francis Of Assisi
#34. May we all be human: beautiful, stupid, temporal, endless.
And as the sun sets, I place my hand upon my heart, feel that it is still beating, and remind myself: "Past performance is not a predictor of future results.
Joseph Fink
#35. Instead of living in the dread or the joy of the future, may we have the intention to live in the Real of the now.
Maximus Freeman
#36. May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
John Darnielle
#37. He has that quiet deference, that look of pleased, attentive interest, in listening to a woman, which, say what we may, we can none of us resist.
Wilkie Collins
#38. May we all make the journey to Bethlehem in spirit, taking with us a tender caring heart as our gift to the Savior.
Thomas S. Monson
#40. May we attribute to the color of the herbage and plants, which no doubt clothe the plains of Mars, the characteristic hue of that planet, which is noticeable by the naked eye, and which led the ancients to personify it as a warrior?
Camille Flammarion
#41. Where we find hate and darkness, may we bring love and hope, in order to give a more human face to society.
Pope Francis
#42. I don't think we really measured the enormity of the whole occasion. I'm very, very surprised. We never expected it. When I set out in May we didn't realise how big this was. Only now have we realised the importance of this. [on the 2005 Ashes win
Duncan Fletcher
#43. No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
Gautama Buddha
#45. In Dark Places,
May we Never be truly Alone.....
~Susan Schroder, Circle the Sun books
Susan Schroder
#46. May Christ be our joy, our confidence, our all. May we daily be made more like to Him, and more devoted to His service.
Matthew Henry
#47. May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.
May Sarton
#48. May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other.
Lewis Carroll
#49. May we all storm the gates of heaven for the souls of the anguished, that in their greatest time of need they will hear the gentle voice of God's Spirit calling them to repentance.
Billy Graham
#51. Married couples, may we never forget that when attacks come the grace of the sacrament is eternally stronger than we are.
Mark Hart
#52. May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done!
Florence Nightingale
#53. May we show great concern to those of great concern to God.
Dillon Burroughs
#54. What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#55. May we Americans all live up to our glorious heritage.
Harry S. Truman
#56. May we show increased kindness toward one another, and may we ever be found doing the work of the Lord.
Thomas S. Monson
#57. May we dedicate our lives to serving the Lord and not worry about offending the devil.
James E. Faust
#58. And may we ever have gratitude in hearts that the great Creator in all His glory has placed the herbs in the field for our healing.
Edward Bach
#59. May we continue to remember not to judge man by the color of his skin, but the content of his character.
Michael Jackson
#60. Long live all us crazy soldiers
Who were born under calico skies
May we never be called to handle
All the weapons of war we despise
Paul McCartney
#61. Lord ... my goal is not to live forever but to live in thy favor forever. May you not only always bless me and my children in friendship & favor but may you also bless all our generations to come.
May we always walk in your light and do our best to bring praise to your holy name.
Amen.
Timothy Pina
#62. When God was creating heaven and earth, and there came what seemed like a problem: darkness and formlessness, He did not talk problem, instead, He spoke solution: 'And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light'. May we instead of making problems our speech, think and speak solutions!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#63. This is the bread of affliction which our forefathers ate in the land of Egypt. Let all those who are hungry come and eat with us. Let all those who are in need come and share our meal. This year we are here. Next year may we all be in the land of Israel.
Elie Wiesel
#64. May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
Watchman Nee
#66. If in this wide world, teeming with abundant supplies for human want, to thousands of wretched creatures no choice is open, save between starvation and sin, may we not justly say that there is something utterly wrong in the system that permits such things to be?
Tennessee Celeste Claflin
#67. 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
William Ellery Channing
#68. May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.
Henry Ward Beecher
#69. Be brave and celebrate with us your 'perceived flaws,' as society tells us. May we make our flaws famous, and thus redefine the heinous.
Lady Gaga
#70. In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale.
C. Lloyd Morgan
#71. Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
William Makepeace Thackeray
#72. Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?
Frank Herbert
#73. May we, in our dealings with all the peoples of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#74. A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?
Jane Addams
#75. Here to second lives. May we all be forgiven for the inapt missteps of our past, and presented with new opportunities to accomplish the things that we've dreamed of doing.
Thomas DePrima
#77. Today is Sunday
It will be Sunday forever
Black birds fly over
In this one instance
May we never recover
From this one new something
We are just starting to discover
Lourd Ernest H. De Veyra
#78. People who work hard often work too hard ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.
Alice Walker
#79. We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.
George MacDonald
#80. May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.
Carol Emshwiller
#81. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so. -
Kristin Hannah
#82. There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.
Pope Francis
#83. May we not say, that true zeal is not mostly charitable, but wholly so? That is, if we take charity in St. Paul's sense, for love; the love of God and our neighbour. For it is a certain truth, (although little understood in the world), that Christian zeal is all love. It is nothing else.
John Wesley
#84. May we try to listen and be silent in order to make space for the beauty of God.
Pope Francis
#85. If the Savior were among us today, we would find Him where He always was-ministering to the meek, the downcast, the humble, the distressed, and the poor in spirit. During this Christmas season and always, may we give to Him by loving as He loves.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#86. Be that as it may, we were
and no doubt, still are
held under scrutiny, with that whole Phoenix Society brouhaha. It is imperative we remain on our best behaviour, a feat that you did not exactly manage effortlessly with your shenanigans in Edinburgh.
Philippa Ballantine
#87. May we see the sun rise together, shade of my heart.
Robert Jordan
#88. May our daily choices be a reflection of our deepest values, and may we use our voices to speak for those who need us most, those who have no voice, those who have no choice.
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
#89. May we live here like strangers and make the world not a house, but an inn, in which we sup and lodge, expecting to be on our journey tomorrow.
Charles Spurgeon
#90. . . . try as we may we cannot get behind things to the reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in things apart from their appearances.
Oscar Wilde
#91. It is God's world still. It has been given to man not absolutely, but in trust, that man may work out in it the will of God; given-may we not say?-just as a father gives a child a corner of his great garden, and says, "There, that is yours; now cultivate it."
Phillips Brooks
#92. May we all grow in grace and peace and not neglect the silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will not fail us.
Thomas Merton
#93. Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?
William James
#94. May we be strengthened with the understanding that being blessed does not mean that we shall always be spared all the disappointments and difficulties of life.
Heber J. Grant
#95. Well may we say 'God save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General'.
Gough Whitlam
#96. Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them ... may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.
John Muir
#97. May we two stand,
When we are dead, beyond the setting suns,
A little from other shades apart,
With mingling hair, and play upon one lute.
William Butler Yeats
#98. A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
Abigail Adams
#99. May we store up the truths of God's Word in our hearts as much as possible, so that we are prepared for whatever suffering we are called upon to endure.
Billy Graham
#100. May we reach out to one another in love, in faith and in kindness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
