May Quotes

• There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree that we are becoming culinary nitwits, dependent upon fast foods and mass kitchens and megavitamins for our basically rotten nourishment.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Future
  • Culture
  • Kitchen

• You cannot contract to sell a baby. If they legalize this contract they may soon start bringing poor women in from other countries just to be breeders.

  

  Mary Beth Whitehead
  • Women
  • May
  • Baby

• They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • May
  • Peace

• [A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • Reading
  • Letters

• The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Long
  • America

• In the women's world, as well as in the men's world, there exists the class law and the class struggle, and it appears as fully established that sometimes between the socialist working women and those belonging to the middle class, there may be antagonisms.

  

  Clara Zetkin
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• Steve was among the greatest of American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it...The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Believe
  • American

• Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth-in a word, to know himself-so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.

  

  Pope John Paul II
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• I think I may not be able to retire.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • May
  • Think
  • Retire

• I think that the world is going to remain a very interconnected place. I don't think there's any getting away from that. The Internet has brought us closer together. I think cross-border trade is going to continue to grow substantially. I think there may be certain trade agreements that can be renegotiated, one way or another.

  

  Dan Schulman
  • World
  • May
  • Together

• All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

  

  Pearl S. Buck
  • May

• Prayer is the lungs through which holiness breathes. Prayer is not only the language of spiritual life, but also makes its very essence and forms its real character. O for a faith that will not shrink though pressed by every foe; That will not tremble on the brink of any earthly woe. Lord, give us such a faith as this... whatever may come...

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Life
  • Real
  • Character

• Heart, we will forget him! You and I, to-night! You may forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.When you have done, pray tell me, That I my thoughts may dim; Haste! lest while you’re lagging, I may remember him!

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Heart
  • Done
  • Remember

• The advice I give to all adventurers is to seek a place where they may sleep in safety.

  

  Samuel de Champlain
  • Sleep
  • Advice
  • Safety

• I had almost no education. I hardly went to school. I’d be away for weeks doing films, then I’d come back and have no idea what they were talking about. Of course the other kids loved it: ‘You may be a well-known star but you don’t know how to do algebra.’ It was a nightmare.

  

  Petula Clark
  • School
  • Kids
  • Education

• The freedom I have as a U.S. citizen is unparalleled. Despite the fact people may not like American passports, having that passport affords me more freedoms than any other passport could.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • People
  • American
  • Freedom

• Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Best
  • Broken
  • Look

• None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • May
  • Happen
  • Flexibility

• May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Work
  • You
  • Find

• I don't know where this myth that I go to a lot of parties stems from. It's a total myth. I may go out to something special once a year.

  

  Lee Radziwill
  • May

• I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • Truth

• They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Up
  • You
  • Maybe

• A part of growing up in this international world is understanding and being prepared and having tools to adapt outside of the small environment that you may have come from. That's what education is all about.

  

  Lamman Rucker
  • Up
  • World
  • Small

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