May Quotes - Page 222

[Responding to trick query about whether she believed herself in a state of grace:] If I am not, may it please God to bring me into it; if I am, may He preserve me in it.

When you write, you're always revealing a difficult part of yourself. It may not be a part of yourself that looks as difficult - there are parts that look more difficult - but in fact, they are all difficult, and you get kind of used to doing that. It is sort of the nature of the thing.

I may be middle class, but I'm hard. 'Al dente', you could say.

You don't use mayonnaise, why? ... Are you addicted to mayonnaise? Is it okay if I use mayonnaise? I could go outside.

I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now.

There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end; to be is to be related.

Love may be the ultimate solution to all man's difficulties, problems and travails.

Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.

If you just read Leviticus on the surface, you may think it's just a bunch of grumpy irrelevant rules; but, it's actually the way God gave his people access to himself.

We all have common emotions. And, and our experiences may not be all common but the emotions sure are.

The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before.

You have to believe in what you are saying. Maybe they will like it or not but they cannot contest that what you are saying is true.

Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily. Sacrifices are necessary.

You may need to change your dreams.

Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.

Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.

People may claim to hate puns, but most true word lovers have groaned to like them.

There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.

Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective.

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.

'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.

[Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right.