May Quotes

That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

We make war that we may live in peace.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

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

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.

There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.

It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.

We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.

Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Sometimes it's literally just a feeling that you get that somebody is more interested than someone else; and they may both say they're interested, but you get a feeling.