Quotes on May

My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.

There are two modes of knowledge: through argument and through experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it does not cause certainty nor remove doubts that the mind may rest in truth, unless this is provided by experience.

After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.

There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. But none of them must take precedence over human needs. As long as Congress does not revise its priorities, our crisis is not just material, it is a crisis of the spirit.

It is ... a sign of the times-though our brothers of physics and chemistry may smile to hear me say so-that biology is now a science in which theories can be devised: theories which lead to predictions and predictions which sometimes turn out to be correct. These facts confirm me in a belief I hold most passionately-that biology is the heir of all the sciences.

Indeed, the most important part of engineering work-and also of other scientific work-is the determination of the method of attacking the problem, whatever it may be, whether an experimental investigation, or a theoretical calculation. ... It is by the choice of a suitable method of attack, that intricate problems are reduced to simple phenomena, and then easily solved.

Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing. . . . I do not understand it. . . . Nothing seems true that may not seem false." Their sacramental word is . . . , which is to say, I suspend my judgment.