May Quotes

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

One may be humble out of pride.

A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.

The president may be a nice guy, but he's just over his head.

Preserve the President's options. He may need them.

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.

I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.

You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.

May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

I'm praying we don't go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier.

There may be some so very Ignorant, that they know not how to Pray.

Colonel, I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field.

I put my ideas into practice. That may be the reason people hate me.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.

When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.

I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.

We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.

Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.