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May Quotes


"Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries."


"No matter how difficult your situation may be you have to follow the Lord of the Second Advent completely."
May,


"We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face."


"I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone."


"Let me into your lives, your world. Live on me, so that you may become truly alive."


"It is not enough to receive support, no matter, how needed it may be. It is fundamental to know how to receive this support and ensure that its result is exponential."


"What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know."


"Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member."


"To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of."


"For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them."


"Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."
May,


"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."



"This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle."


"The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep."


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


"The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!"


"It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them."
May,


"A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion."
May,


"Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it."


"Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be."


"Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness."


"I may be the most recognizable name in the cast, but I can guarantee that I am not the most talented."


"Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter."
May,


"I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is."


"My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write."


"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."
May,


"Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do."


"Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed."
May,


"May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine."


"There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud."


"When they discover I have a green card there may be some problems."


"When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing."
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