Quotes on May

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.

I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.

May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.