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May Quotes


"Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while."
May,


"You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come."


"You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut."


"I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me."


"In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of the contraction and so the tension."


"Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form."


"It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy."
May,


"I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me."
May,


"Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy."
May,


"We reduced the size of our front page code by about 50%, and by using absolute positioning, we are able to display important parts of the page before other parts may have fully loaded yet."
May,


"The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not."
May,


"Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it's hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around it may be to keep it as simple as possible."
May,


"May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin."


"It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience."


"Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it."


"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."
May,


"I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old."


"Sometimes because a woman is beautiful, she's not encouraged to be more, although she may have so much more to offer."


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


"Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline."
May,


"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."
May,


"Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed."
May,


"I may be the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next to me."


"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."
May,


"What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know."


"Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree."


"New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen."
May,


"The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep."


"It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid."
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