Quotes of: I-may-not Keyword

Sometimes, when you sleep with the enemy, waking up is the hardest part." ~ Muse

Devil May Care

May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.

The End of Suffering: Finding Purpose in Pain

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

The History Boys

Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.

Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

John Quincy Adams

A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary.

Richard Jefferies

Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to shed light, you may feel wrenching pain, grief, anger, or sh...

Martha Beck

It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a...

Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

Oil may run out, liquidity may dry up, but as long as ink flows freely, the next chapter of Life will continue to be written.

Impromptu Scribe

Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.

As a Man Thinketh

...it seemed marriage by its very design was meant to seek out love and destroy it.

The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott

A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

The Lagoon

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

The Things They Carried

May you see the world with wonder. And may you imagine only good things.

The Twelve Gifts for Healing

It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.

The Passion

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Meister Eckhart

We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth.

Nathan Wolfe

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

Oswald Chambers

Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be.

Ray Stannard Baker

The overarching issue, really, is our surgeon general should be able to communicate transparently and honestly with the American public on all issues.

Richard Carmona