May Quotes
20575 May quotes by 7930 unique authors
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A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Although the works of the Creator may be in themselves all equally perfect, the animal is, as I see it, the most complete work of…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
— Unknown Author
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With all reserve we advance the view that a supernova represents the transition of an ordinary star into a neutron star consisting mainly of neutrons.…
— Fritz Zwicky
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No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever…
— Hugo Black
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If you are eagerly looking for salvation, and if you believe in God, you may ... become acquainted with the Christ of God, and, after…
— Justin Martyr
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An opportunity is a conjunction of circumstances by which one may improve his condition of life or his equipment for life.
— William DeWitt Hyde
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
— Wally Lamb
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We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more…
— Samuel Johnson
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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
— Walter Scott
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When you cleanse yourself of a big victory, you may open yourself up to the opportunity for an even bigger victory
— Mike Krzyzewski
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The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that…
— Georges Braque
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When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to keep up. When…
— Ian Tattersall
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Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a…
— Heinrich Himmler
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Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in…
— Barack Obama
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There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being…
— Hannah More
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However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The true follower of Christ will not ask, "If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?" Rather he will say, "This is truth.…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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That which once was, will be no more. Yesterday will never come again. To-day is passing, and will not return. You may work while it…
— Richard Baxter
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Though we may now think some sins light and little, if the Lord awaken the conscience, we shall feel even the smallest sin heavy upon…
— Matthew Henry
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Oh! it is sweet to be thus weaned from friends, and from myself, and dead to the present world, that so I may live wholly…
— David Brainerd
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Tell me, you vain professor, when did you shed a tear for the deadness, hardness, unbelief, or earthliness of your heart? Do you think that…
— John Flavel
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I exhort you and beseech you in the bowels of Christ, faint not, weary not. There is a great necessity of heaven; you must have…
— Samuel Rutherford
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Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on…
— John Owen
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It is no sin to doubt some things but it may be fatal to believe everything.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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