May Quotes

• One hundred years from now Beatles songs may be so well known that every child will learn them as nursery rhymes, and most people will have forgotten who wrote them. They will have become sufficiently entrenched in popular culture that it will seem as if they've always existed, like Oh Susannah, This Land Is Your Land, and Frère Jacques.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • People
  • Culture
  • Popular

• When vision failsDirection is lost.When direction is lostPurpose may be forgotten. When purpose if forgottenEmotion rules alone.When emotion rules alone,Destruction...destruction.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Lost
  • Alone
  • Purpose

• Hard rock may have faded from the media for a time, but I've always been able to make a living, if not in America, then in the rest of the world.

  

  David Coverdale Whitesnake
  • Time
  • World
  • America

• Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • May
  • Government
  • Efficiency

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Long
  • High
  • Education

• Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • Faith
  • Belief

• I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Spirit
  • Fool
  • Made

• Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Service
  • Better
  • Task

• We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. We all share the same basic values.

  

  Kofi Annan
  • Different
  • May

• Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • May
  • Integrity
  • Brainy

• Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Business
  • Community
  • Relationship

• Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Remember
  • Strong
  • Small

• Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Change
  • Better
  • Teach

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

  

  Mark Twain
  • May

• Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Star
  • Moon
  • Motivational

• There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will be able to write clearly, no key that unlocks the door, no inflexible rules by which the young writer may steer his course. He will often find himself steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.

  

  E. B. White
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• May the bird of paradise fly up your nose, may an elephant caress you with his toes, may your wife be plagued with runners in her hose.

  

  James Cecil Dickens
  • Up
  • Wife
  • Fly

• Along the road your steps may stumbleYour thoughts may start to strayBut through it all a heart held humbleLevels and lights your way.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Heart
  • Road
  • Thoughts

• I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • May
  • Courage
  • Empathy

• By one hour's intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes his glory to pass before the soul that seeks him, you may acquire more true spiritual knowledge and comfort, than by a day or a week's converse with the best of men, or the most studious perusal of many folios.

  

  John Newton
  • Men
  • True
  • Soul

• No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond our power to resolve

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • May
  • Power

• Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • World
  • Job

• Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Truth
  • Respect
  • Compassion

• For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us.

  

  Martin Chemnitz
  • God
  • May

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