May Quotes - Page 6

• My heart may be black but it was still capable of heart failure.

  Abbi Glines

  Heart, Black, Stills

  Abbi Glines (2012). “The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• This may be invading her privacy but I was Death, dammit. I should get some privileges

  Abbi Glines

  Privilege, Privacy, Should

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• The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December's as pleasant as May.

  John Newton

  Gay, Shining, Looks

  John Newton (1847). “One Hundred and Twenty Nine Letters from the Rev. John Newton ... to the Rev. William Bull, of Newport Pagnell: Written During a Period of Thirty-two Years, from 1773 to 1805 ...”, p.5

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• The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?

  Angela Carter

  Laughing, Mirth, Clown

  Angela Carter (1984). “Nights at the circus”, Vintage

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• Bidding the wizard farewell, he turned to his daughter, who held up her finger and said, “Daddy, look — one of the gnomes actually bit me!” “How wonderful! Gnome saliva is enormously beneficial!” said Mr. Lovegood, seizing Luna’s outstretched finger and examining the bleeding puncture marks. “Luna, my love, if you should feel any burgeoning talent today — perhaps an unexpected urge to sing opera or to declaim in Mermish — do not repress it! You may have been gifted by the Gernumblies!” Ron, passing them in the opposite direction, let out a loud snort.

  J. K. Rowling

  Daughter, Farewell, Opposites

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• There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

  Alain de Botton

  Significant Things, People, Annoying

  Alain de Botton (2012). “How Proust Can Change Your Life”, p.94, Pan Macmillan

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• I love you, Ella May and nothing will ever change that. You can push me away -run away – and I will still love you.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Running, Love You, Pushing Me Away

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• It's hard, Cotton. To let yourself love something you know you may never have.

  David Baldacci

  Cotton, Knows, Hard

  David Baldacci (2011). “Wish You Well”, p.260, Pan Macmillan

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• May I ask you something?" I say. "Why do you read books, when you could be outside, living a million different adventures every day?" "Because you can always count on a book to stay the same. EVerything else changes when you least expect it," she replies, bitter. "Families split apart, and nothing's forever. In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Adventure, Forever

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• In very truth, a wise imagination, which is the presence of the spirit of God, is the best guide that man or woman can have; for it is not the things we see the most clearly that influence us the most powerfully; undefined, yet vivid visions of something beyond, something which eye has not seen nor ear heard, have far more influence than any logical sequences whereby the same things may be demonstrated to the intellect. It is the nature of the thing, not the clearness of its outline, that determines its operation. We live by faith, and not by sight.

  George MacDonald

  Wise, Eye, Men

  George MacDonald (1883). “The Imagination, and Other Essays”

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• Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin. ... We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Thanksgiving, Thank God, Would Be

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.51, SCM Press

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• Howl said to Sophie, "I've been wondering all along if you would turn out to be that lovely girl I met on May Day. Why were you scared then?

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Girl, Lovely, Sophie

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• It was a perfectly normal May Day, but Sophie was scared of that too. And when a young man in a fantastical blue-and-silver costume spotted Sophie and decided to accost her as well, Sophie shrank into a shop doorway and tried to hide. The young man looked at her in surprise. "It's all right, you little gray mouse," he said laughing rather pityingly. "I only want to buy you a drink. Don't look so scared.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Men, Perfectly Normal, Blue

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• We may have been like needles in a hay stack, but they were like needles . . . in a stack of needles

  D. J. MacHale

  Hay, Needles, Has Beens

  D.J. MacHale (2009). “Pendragon: The Soldiers of Halla”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• It's very good of you--" "No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I don't mean, but investigating things. Well, cheer-frightfully-ho and all that. And I'll call again, if I may." "I will give the footman orders to admit you," said the prisoner, gravely, "you will always find me at home.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Love, Cheer, Home

  DOROTHY L. SAYERS (1963). “STRONG POISON”

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• You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!

  Yann Martel

  Believe, Moving, Don't Believe

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Indeed, your biggest challenge may be to fully harness your strengths. You may be so busy trying to appear like a zestful, reward-sensitive extrovert that you undervalue your own talents, or feel underestimated by those around you. But when you’re focused on a project that you care about, you probably find that your energy is boundless.

  Susan Cain

  Challenges, Trying, Energy

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• I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.

  Roland Barthes

  Desire, Encounters, Body

  Roland Barthes (1990). “A lover's discourse: fragments”, Penguin Books

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• I am a Christian…so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ — though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Christian, Long

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.255, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Since there are thousands of fairy tales, one may safely guess that there are probably equal numbers where the courage and determination of females rescue males, and vice versa.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Determination, Numbers, Female

  Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales”, Knopf

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• I have a lot on my mind and not a lot to do so it's going to come out, all of it, and then, then, it may begin to make a sort of sense

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Mind

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• Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Jekyll

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• the wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Wise, Men, Perfection

  Niccolo Machiavelli, Sir Thomas More, Sir (2010). “Machiavelli, More & Luther”, p.20, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Voice, Feet, Mind

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• Do you know whether or not you are in God's grace? Joan: If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

  Joan of Arc

  Grace, Knows, Do You Know

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