May Quotes
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
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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.
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They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.
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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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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 purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
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The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowersStream from the hawthorn on the wind away,The doors clap to, the pane is blind with showers.Pass me the can, lad; there’s an end of May.
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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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I don't know why black skin may not cover a true heart as well as a white one.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
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The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
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I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
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He may look dumb, but that's just a disguise.
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Most immigration opponents are loath to admit it, at least publicly, but they are worried that the huge influx of Hispanics will somehow change America for the worse. But those fears are unfounded. Some may talk about the browning of America, but immigrants are a net positive.
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Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
