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May Quotes


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


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


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


"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."


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


"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."


"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,


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


"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."


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


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



"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."


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


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


"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."


"I may be the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next to me."


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


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


"By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox."


"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."



"Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village."


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


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


"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!"


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


"It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy."
May,


"To eat the boiled head of a pig sliced like salami is very strange. It may seem cutting edge, but it's actually a lot older than any of the other traditional salami."
May,


"Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where."
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