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May Quotes
"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."
3
"You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut."
3
"I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me."
3
"Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form."
3
"May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin."
3
"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,
3
"Sometimes because a woman is beautiful, she's not encouraged to be more, although she may have so much more to offer."
3
"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
3
"Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree."
3
"Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability."
3
"If Senator Kerry decides to join us for an hour, then we may only use one or two brief clips. And use the bulk of what he has to tell us as part of that program."
May,
3
"May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine."
3
"You create a pile of dirt and then drive over it. We may have to learn to drive all over again."
May,
2
"To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world."
2
"In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim."
May,
2
"We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales."
2
"We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning."
May,
2
"I may be known as the girl who was sunbathing topless with a Prince but Jordan is known as that thick girl who always falls out of clubs drunk. I know which one I prefer."
May,
2
"Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons."
2
"By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox."
2
"When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become."
2
"A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute."
May,
2
"The Barks of Trees are best gathered in the Spring, if it be of great Trees, as Oaks or the like, because then they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all Barks only for present use."
2
"A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion."
May,
2
"I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me."
May,
2
"Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy."
May,
2
"We reduced the size of our front page code by about 50%, and by using absolute positioning, we are able to display important parts of the page before other parts may have fully loaded yet."
May,
2
"I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old."
2
"Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed."
May,
2
"New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen."
May,
2
"It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid."
2
"It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border."
2
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