Quotes of: May Keyword

The result may be important but it’s not the actual measure. The measure is the feeling you have made contact with something.

The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression

O God, make me worthy of this calling, that the name of Jesus may be glorified in me and I in him.

The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions

A good roommate may be the single most important thing to have when one is away at school.

A Voice of Her Own: Becoming Emily Dickinson

... but as with so may diagnoses it is, in the end, the symptoms that matter, not the cause, because this is what being alive means, this is what being a person means, to be sickened by an illness known as you.

The Vanishers

Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave

Virginibus Puerisque

I offer no apologies to those whom I may have rendered uncomfortable with my open and honest assertions. The truth is often harsh and uncomfortable to embrace.

Vor Forn Sidr

A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.

The Word for World is Forest

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

Waiting for God

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Walden

Souls’ may be subjugated and regulated – for a time – but never terminated. They live!

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

There may be losses too great to understand That rove after you and--faint and terrible-- rip unknown through your hand.

The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems

We are never tired of life. But we may grow tired of our idea of life.

Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records

Clothes are expensive. Save money and become a nudist. Remember: Fashions may change, but naked is always in style.

Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

My feet are dense with dance. I move like I’m wearing concrete boots and I’m trying to tread water. If the music is salsa, I may start gargling.

Xazaqazax

Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.

You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

To some, having children may seem as conducive to travelling as having your feet set in concrete.

Your Child's Health Abroad: A Manual for Traveling Parents

Attempting to contain the infinite within finite symbolism of language may result in scholarship, but it will not produce devotion. (110)

The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras

But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested.

Arthur Cayley

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.

Asa Gray

The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer.

Azar Nafisi

I have one. I may get another during the off-season, I might get my son's name but I'm not sure yet. The one I have is my Hebrew name, which I share with my grandfather, and it's not the best tattoo.

Adam Pally