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May Quotes


"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."



"Sometimes because a woman is beautiful, she's not encouraged to be more, although she may have so much more to offer."


"No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things."


"The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it."


"Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons."



"Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability."


"We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides."



"Oh, Michael Jackson is Michael Jackson. And no matter if he sold 40 million records off of one record and sold 15 off his last or whatever the counts may be, Michael Jackson will be Michael Jackson."


"You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come."


"It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience."


"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."


"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,


"We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do."
May,


"It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice."



"To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world."


"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,


"What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along."
May,



"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."


"Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened in the past."


"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."


"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,


"When news comes out, it ought to be reported. There shouldn't be a moratorium based on legitimate news, just because it may or may not affect one candidate or the other. That's just absurd."



"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."


"Daley may be sinking. The hot water has gone from his chest to his neck."


"Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping."


"Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only."
May,
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