May Quotes

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Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of… — George Eliot
He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The Catholic community must offer support to those women who may find it difficult to accept a child, above all when they are isolated from… — Pope Benedict XVI
...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must some time enter;… — Lyndon B. Johnson
It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes which… — Lyndon B. Johnson
I think that our whole country needs to have more love and compassion for all children. All life is valuable and a gift from God.… — Kim Alexis
In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even… — Goswami Kriyananda
Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal. — Yehudi Menuhin
Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks… — Hannah Whitall Smith
But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from… — Vladimir Lenin
I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable in Russia. It may someday… — Stuart Chase
Never throw mud. You may miss the mark, and you'll have dirty hands. — Joseph Parker
Our television program airs to a potential audience of over 3 billion people, in many places where the people living there may have never even… — Joyce Meyer
Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich… — P T Barnum
I may be boring, but it would be to wake up by my dog and then my daughter. — Izabella Scorupco
Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The first is that, when there… — H. L. Mencken
In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to… — James Madison
The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume. — Thomas Jefferson
If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the… — Thomas Jefferson
No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may… — Thomas Jefferson
Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them… — Thomas Jefferson
I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can be most useful… — Thomas Jefferson
The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at… — Thomas Jefferson
A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more… — Thomas Jefferson

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