Top 100 Quotes About May
#1. There is one great beauty in idealized romance: reading it can make no one worse than he is, while it may help thousands to a cleaner life and higher inspiration than they ever before have known.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#2. My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing ... Long may our land be bright, With freedom's holy light; Protect us by Thy might, Great God, our King.
Samuel Francis Smith
#3. They may have been victims at one time, but what you have to focus on is what they are now.
Kevin Hearne
#6. There may be unselfish natures, there may be disinterested feelings.
Henry James
#7. I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.
James Otis
#8. Let our first care today be the re-establishment of our physical strength, the reconstruction of our national organism, so that in future, where the respect due to us cannot be won by entreaty, it may be commanded, and where it cannot be commanded, it may be enforced.
Emma Lazarus
#9. Opinions may have truth in them but that truth must be free of opinions.
Robin Hobb
#10. There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were no exceptions, no sunny days, no acts of random kindness.
T.C. Boyle
#11. At that moment of realization (that union with God is always present), that's when God let me go, let me slide through His fingers with this last compassionate, unspoken message:
You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#12. Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt.
Dan Abnett
#13. Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is both missionary and mercenary ... That has always been a potent combination.
Brad Stone
#14. If your ego is hurt you may become angry. Understand that ego itself is a disease. Dissolve your ego as far as possible. If you have inferiority complex, or have a very deficient ego you will loose your temper very easily.
Rajneesh
#15. The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own.
Raymond Williams
#16. To every Armageddonist, every earth lover must keep saying with all the sincerity and affection we can muster, May God make this world as beautiful to you as it has been to me.
David James Duncan
#17. I may not be a politician, but I will fight to the end of my life for what I believe in.
Bidzina Ivanishvili
#18. Cats don't think they're owned by anybody.
Even behind doors and windows, like amiable Wally, they're free. Always.
That may, in fact, be the most important thing about them.
Michael Korda
#19. I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
Maya Angelou
#20. If in madness of delusion, anyone shall lift his parricidal hand against this blessed union, the arms of thousands will be raised to save it, and the curse of millions will fall upon the head which may have plotted its destruction.
Andrew Jackson
#22. I've never been heckled. I think because I look too small and vulnerable. Sometimes I look out into the audience and see pity in their eyes, so I guess those people may be the ones who would shout something out if they didn't feel so sorry for me.
Amy Hoggart
#23. I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.
Bertrand Russell
#24. I want my words to open a portal through which the reader may leave the self, migrate to some other human sky and return 'disposed' to otherness.
Sue Monk Kidd
#25. I don't know how it could be more stark or clear: this entire society is being dominated by corporate power in a way that may exceed what happened in the late nineteenth century, early twentieth century.
Russ Feingold
#26. Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#27. An elderly black man with gray hair said, "Every bottle should come with a warning: 'This bottle may cause you to lose your job. This bottle may cause you to get a divorce. This bottle may cause you to become homeless.
Akhil Sharma
#28. A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.
Northrop Frye
#29. Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.
Earl Butz
#30. It is the peculiar nature of the forest, that life and death may ever be found within its bounds, in immediate presence of each other; both with ceaseless, noiseless advances, aiming at the mastery; and if the influences of the first be most general, those of the last are the most striking.
Susan Fenimore Cooper
#31. And our desire to know
Each other and desert
Each other for new
Centers of meaning so that
The boundaries may reign
And in doing so be undone.
Rob Schlegel
#32. It is already apparent that the 'minimalist' view of the Bible as wholly fictitious and unhooked from historical reality, may be as much of a mistake as the biblical literalism it sought to supersede.
Simon Schama
#33. Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at odds with the wrongs of the world around us. But inside ourselves, near the core, if we are happy, we are at peace.
Lewis B. Smedes
#34. We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
Alan Turing
#35. Concealment, my dear Maria, is the foe of tranquility: however I may err in future, I will never be disingenuous in acknowledging my errors. To
Fanny Burney
#36. Oddly, with discipline, structure, and order, you will find freedom, anything is possible. Without it, locating your saddle may take all morning.
Ethan Hawke
#37. Truth never changes; it is the same now, yesterday, and forever, in itself; but our relations towards truth may change, for that which is hidden from us today may become known to us tomorrow.
James Gibbons
#38. Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, but he's gonna have to beat me to death with it, cause it's gonna be empty.
Clint Smith
#40. What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#41. You may hold the same feeling even after a long gap, but not trust.
Akansh Malik
#42. Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible ... then may the Devil take you!
Albert Einstein
#43. Raisins are healthy, and they are inexpensive, and some people may even find them delicious. But they are rarely considered helpful.
Lemony Snicket
#44. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminates even the possibility that war may serve as a negative good.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#45. Religion may become a fashion as well as anything else; and, when it does become so, it has as little to do, in those who thus hold it, with the heart and the character as any other fashion.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
#46. This may sound insulting to some of my cult studies friends, but there's a lot of cult studies people who ignore, shall we say, the wider canvas - because they simply don't know about its existence or they don't know how it operates.
Peter York
#47. Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them ... I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
John Milton
#48. It is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#49. Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.
Virginia Woolf
#50. The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.
W. H. Auden
#51. Awareness, no matter how confused it may be, develops from every act of rebellion: the sudden, dazzling perception that there is something in man with which he can identify himself, even if only for a moment.
Albert Camus
#52. Delivering freight elsewhere for Pickup. Meeting a Pickup schedule may become questionable, which will assure the future casual
Malcolm Newbourne
#53. I was thinking that if what distinguishes us as humans is our stupidity, what may redeem us is our grace.
Earl Lovelace
#54. A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.
Alfred Binet
#55. The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not.
Lukas Foss
#56. He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#58. In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
Aldo Leopold
#59. Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
Marya Mannes
#60. I have no social life. There is no time for one. Once in a while I may go to dinner with a friend but that is it. However I am much happier travelling and being busy competing in both my sports than having time off.
Liz Halliday
#61. They may all be drunk at my place, but they're all honest, and though we do lie-because I lie, too-in the end we'll lie our way to the truth
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#62. Idealism may get us into the fray, but it is the loss of all we cherish that begins to form in us a heart capable of leading others reluctantly and humbly.
Dan B. Allender
#64. Passion may be false, trivial or unnatural, but, if violent enough, is not without some trace of grandeur.
W. Somerset Maugham
#65. It is good to focus, but never forget to look around. If you focus on the wrong target, you may miss seeing all of the beauty around you.
Debasish Mridha
#66. 195. "God, enlighten the darkness of my heart and give me a right faith, a sure hope, a perfect charity, sense and knowledge, so that I may carry out your holy command.
Francis Of Assisi
#67. Be thou as a throbbing artery, pulsating in the body of the entire creation, that through the heat generated by this motion there may appear that which will quicken the hearts of those who hesitate.
Baha'u'llah
#68. Burnout, beat-up and broken down we may limp away from a failed relationship, job or environment, but we will be better equipped to follow our hearts...thoughtfully. Our ability to see the potential in ourselves and others will determine our success.
Steve Knox
#69. We venture to assert, that if there be any day in the year, of which we may be pretty sure that it was not the day on which the Savior was born, it is the 25th of December. Regarding not the day, let us, nevertheless, give thanks to God for the gift of His dear Son.
Charles Spurgeon
#70. Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one - but there is a price.
Harry Browne
#71. The Liberals may blather about protecting cultural minorities, but the fact is that undermining the traditional definition of marriage is an assault on multiculturalism and the practices in those communities.
Stephen Harper
#73. If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, "I am sure I am here by mistake; I am sure this is not my place; I have no claim to it." But if it be of grace and not of works, then we may walk into heaven with boldness.
Charles Spurgeon
#74. We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.
Henry Mayhew
#75. Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity.
Ethan Zuckerman
#76. Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.
Ariel Sharon
#78. You may have noticed that Turlough spent a great deal of time kept captive in various states of bondage. It was always a disappointment to me that there seemed to be no getting around this problem.
Mark Strickson
#79. I may not know what is in store for me. However, I always know how I prefer to respond to my circumstances whatever they may be.
Raphael Zernoff
#80. It may well be that the pictures of Courbet, Manet, Monet and their like contain beauties which escape the notice of such old romantic heads as ours, already streaked with silver threads.
Theophile Gautier
#81. May your convictions be deep, your love real, and your desires earnest
Charles Spurgeon
#82. Stay in college, kids. Otherwise, you may become an umpire.
Andy Roddick
#83. Perhaps, if prematurely we dismiss ourselves from this world, all may even have to be suffered through again - the premature birth may not contribute to the production of another being, which must be begun again from the beginning.
Florence Nightingale
#84. When the sun sets, beautiful though it may be, billions of stars appear. The ego is but one sun. When that sun sets, there are endless suns, endless horizons beyond it.
Frederick Lenz
#85. She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#86. The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#87. It's quite commonplace for a young man to fall in love and equally commonplace for him to be rejected, but come what may, I'll always be fond of you.
Margaret Way
#88. We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
Mahatma Gandhi
#89. Sometimes when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place.
Sukhraj S. Dhillon
#90. Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.
Lord Byron
#91. I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest.
Fred Reed
#92. It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of impunity to those whom they plan to punish for their crimes, so that they may feel it all the more keenly as a result of the change in their fortunes.
Julius Caesar
#93. In your spare time, google the ingredients in all the foods you are eating. If you care about yourself, you may change your menu
Sahndra Fon Dufe
#94. If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
Aristotle.
#95. It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.
Stanley Fish
#96. I learned something that day: there may be worse things than arriving somewhere with your dog and leaving without him, but there aren't many.
John Connolly
#97. When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.
Dan Millman
#98. Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland
Jacqueline Carey
#99. A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.
Benjamin Franklin
#100. Knowledge' may be there but 'correctness' is required along with it. If you have 'knowledge' but don't have the 'correctness'; you will go to moksha, but others will not gain any benefit!
Dada Bhagwan
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