"May" Quotes . Top 28 Short Quotes About "May"

"Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me."

--- A. E. Waite

#Lucifer #Communicate #May

"I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'"

--- A. J. Liebling

#People #Mets #May

"Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten."

--- A. J. Liebling

#May #New Orleans #San Francisco

"Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn."

--- A. J. Liebling

#Ecstasy #May #Writing

"Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome may be defeat."

--- A. J. Muste

#Impulse #Defeat #May

"Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved."

--- A. J. Muste

#Crude #Technique #Social

"Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves."

--- A. J. P. Taylor

#Chairs #May #Stills

"The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long."

--- A. J. P. Taylor

#Fear #Goes On #May

"My fellow critics and I may occasionally fault a movie for departing, in detail or in spirit, from its literary source, but the grousing of a few adult pedants is nothing compared to the wrath of several million bookish 10-year-olds. Their presumed demands, and the hovering spirit of Harry's creator, J. K. Rowling, inhibit this movie as it did the first Potter film."

--- A. O. Scott

#Source #May #Adults

"Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite."

--- A. O. Scott

#Democracy #May #Skepticism

"Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable."

--- A. P. Herbert

#Behavior #Gentle #Found

"My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his club at me. Well, let him wave-the sky is blue; Go on, old ball, we are but two-We may be down in three, Or nine-or ten-or twenty-five-It matters not; to be alive, Is good enough for me."

--- A. P. Herbert

#Goes On #Ferns #May

"Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable."

--- A. P. Herbert

#May #Golfers #Provocation

"A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction."

--- A. R. Ammons

#Term #May #Law

"If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster"

--- A. R. Ammons

#Taken #May #Chance

"The institution of marriage works better when there's a spiritual connection. If you're marrying just for the sake of the woman, then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity, then it gives a much larger perspective."

--- A. R. Rahman

#Institutions #Perspective #Spiritual Connection

"Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame."

--- A. S. Byatt

#Comforter #May #Heartbreak

"Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of Art and Thought which we may now taste as we please, with none to forbid or criticise."

--- A. S. Byatt

#Please #Criticise #May

"Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins is an essential covenant to make with the Lord. Faith and repentance precede this ordinance. Confirmation and the gift of the Holy Ghost follow baptism. Acceptance of these first principles and ordinances may obtain for us a remission of our sins and assure our salvation. In the ordinance of the sacrament, we regularly renew this and other covenants, and by complying with our part of the covenant, we receive the Spirit of the Lord to be with us."

--- A. Theodore Tuttle

#Salvation #Covenant #Ordinances

"Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he is sure always to count as one of the great personalities of philosophy. From our perspective it is easy to mistake one for the other; which he is time will tell."

--- A.C. Grayling

#Perspective #Generations #May

"But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science."

--- A.J. Ayer

#Said #May #Empty

"The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself."

--- A.J. Ayer

#People #Deceiving #Interesting

"To make our position clearer, we may formulate it in another way. Let us call a proposition which records an actual or possible observation an experiential proposition. Then we may say that it is the mark of a genuine factual proposition, not that it should be equivalent to an experiential proposition, or any finite number of experiential propositions, but simply that some experiential propositions can be deduced from it in conjunction with certain other premises without being deducible from those other premises alone."

--- A.J. Ayer

#Conjunctions #Observation #May

"While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them."

--- A.J. Ayer

#May #Facts #Moral

"In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical, or even mental, objects; they express definitions, or the formal consequences of definitions. Accordingly we may say that philosophy is a department of logic. For we will see that the characteristic mark of a purely logical enquiry, is that it is concerned with the formal consequences of our definitions and not with questions of empirical fact."

--- A.J. Ayer

#May #Concerned #Mark

"The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it."

--- A.S.A. Harrison

#Unwanted #Substance #May

"Of course, the advantage is that, being in this business, you get to learn a lot, experience a lot of new things, and you can become real successful. The disadvantage is, of course the negative media. People may try to manipulate you and control you, and those are the things you have to avoid. But if you maintain strong family values and you believe in God, you can be successful. So, it's been tough, but I've gotten through it because I stuck with my family and my deep belief in God."

--- Aaliyah

#People #New Things #Disadvantages

"Well, I think that the image is a part of me. I wear the baggy pants, the hats, the whole nine. And you know, I may add a little for the excitement and the intrigue in the videos, but my family has told me that little air of mystery that surrounds me is for real."

--- Aaliyah

#Thinking #Pants #May

28 "May" Quotes