Quotes of: May Keyword

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

He may be my half brother, but we're not related. A chasm of incommunicable worlds lies between us." (p. 70)

An Unnecessary Woman

Elise Vasquez and I stand shoulder to shoulder, watching the woman we both feel we lost, and may be never really had.

Vanishing Acts

Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it.

The Virginians Volume II

God may withhold an answer to prayer until we relinquish control of the outcome and put our complete trust in Him.

Waiting with God

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Walden

Though all the guns be silenced, each soldier in his home, There is no peace till Love comes, till the meek may safely roam.

The Washington Poems

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

On Writing

One may be "outside" the church, but one can never be "outside" of God's love.

A Wideness in God's Mercy: The Finality Of Jesus Christ In A World Of Religions

If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship was a bridge too far.

We Shadows

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.

Walden Two

We may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy.

The White Tiger

A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.

Walden Two

A comedy isn’t about being funny...a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all.

The Wednesday Wars

No one can pretend that because a people may be oppressed, every individual member is virtuous and worthy.

Why We Can't Wait

May the beauty of the flowers remind us of the beauty of our loved one's spirit

We Do Remember You

I sell Jarod-shaped earplugs that just may plug up the hole in your heart. My earplugs are modeled after a nude Helen Keller.

Xazaqazax

As a rule of thumb, hitchhiking is no fun. If you’re going to stand around waiting to move, you may as well get paid to hold a pawnshop sign.

Xazaqazax

They may try to stop you by their words and deeds, but like air you will rise above it all. You are unstoppable

Your Dreams Will Not Die

The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.

Aaron Siskind