May Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing

  Jonathan Tropper

  I May Not Be

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• You may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

  John Green

  Hipster, Smart, Being Smart

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.32, Penguin

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• Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is. Come let us fart in the home. There is no art in a fart. Still a fart may not be artless. Let us fart and artless fart in the home.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Art, Home, Stills

  Ernest Hemingway (1992). “Complete Poems”, p.70, U of Nebraska Press

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• • People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn’t have the same priorities as you may be dealing with an autistic child, abusive spouse, fading parents, or cancer. Don’t judge people until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Give them a break instead.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Sympathy, Children, Cancer

  FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from Oct 30, 2015

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• Nature....she will hang the night stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send word the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hurt, Stars, Night

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• A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub. (from a letter dated 25 May, 1694)

  Isaac Newton

  Errors, Practice, Able

  Sir Isaac Newton, Roger Cotes (1850). “Correspondence of Sir Isaac Newton and Professor Cotes: Including Letters of Other Eminent Men Now First Published from the Originals in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge; Together with an Appendix, Containing Other Unpublished Letters and Papers by Newton; with Notes, Synoptical View of the Philosopher's Life, and a Variety of Details Illustrative of His History”, p.284

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• You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.

  Daniel Handler

  Phrases, Said

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• You would throw away all that we have given you for a man’s love?” “Not a man’s love,” I say softly. “But Duval’s. And I would find a way to serve both my god and my heart. Surely He does not give us hearts so we may spend our lives ignoring them.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Heart, Men, Giving

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• You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

  Elie Wiesel

  Suffering, Mountain, Bottom

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Hostage”, p.155, Knopf

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• Do not neglect to bring your revolver, Russell. It may be needed, and it does us no good in your drawer with that disgusting cheese." "My lovely Stilton; it's almost ripe, too. I do hope Mr. Thomas enjoys it." "Any riper and it will eat through the woodwork and drop into the room below." "You envy me my educated tastes." "That I will not honour with a response. Get out the door, Russell.

  Laurie R. King

  Doors, Envy, Lovely

  Laurie R. King (2010). “The Beekeeper's Apprentice”, p.156, Allison & Busby

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• Any damage that's been done, you have to fix yourself because it needs fixing and there is nobody else to do the work. Blame may well be justified, but it's not going to move you forward in your life.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Moving, Needs, Done

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• Today, we have a powerful military that serves as a deterrent, but the enemy we have today is not like World War II, where you sign a piece of paper and the war is over. Today they're not in uniform. In my time we knew what the enemy looked like, we knew his weapons systems and such. Today, your cab driver may be the person, you have no idea. I don't know how we got into this fix, but we're there.

  Daniel Inouye

  Powerful, Military, War

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• May you find grace as you surrender to life. May you find happiness, as you stop seeking it. May you come to trust these laws and inherit the wisdom of the Earth. May you reconnect with the heart of nature and feel the blessings of Spirit.

  Dan Millman

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Dan Millman (2010). “Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions”, p.203, New World Library

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• I just believed it easily, the way you might believe and in fact remember that you once had another set of teeth, now vanished but real in spite of that. Until one day, one day when I may even have been in my teens, I knew with a dim sort of hole in my insides that now I didn't believe it anymore.

  Alice Munro

  Real, Believe, One Day

  Alice Munro (2012). “Dear Life”, p.270, Random House

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• A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Dust, Sun

  Cosmos ch. 1 (1980). Sagan denied using the phrase "billions and billions," as caricatured by comedian Johnny Carson, but the above quote approaches that phrase, and Sagan was extremely fond in his writing of the word billion or billions.

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• Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on.

  Stephen King

  Goes On, Gunslinger, Frank

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• Cheshire Cat: If I were looking for a white rabbit, I'd ask the Mad Hatter. Alice: The Mad Hatter? Oh, no no no... Cheshire Cat: Or, you could ask the March Hare, in that direction. Alice: Oh, thank you. I think I'll see him... Cheshire Cat: Of course, he's mad, too. Alice: But I don't want to go among mad people. Cheshire Cat: Oh, you can't help that. Most everyone's mad here. [laughs maniacally; starts to disappear] Cheshire Cat: You may have noticed that I'm not all there myself.

  Lewis Carroll

  Cat, Thinking, White

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• You gonna deal with Mr. Hot and Moody?" "Not sure. I may just pull out my e-reader." He nodded. "Probably safer for your sanity.

  Sylvia Day

  Hot, Sanity, Not Sure

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.325, Penguin

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• For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Deeds, Accomplish

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?" "I don't know. My… my code of morals, perhaps." "Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?" "Comprehension.

  Albert Camus

  Hands, Earth, Moral

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.

  Umberto Eco

  Mean, What Matters, Listening

  Umberto Eco (2011). “The Prague Cemetery”, p.29, Random House

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• It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.

  James M. Barrie

  Quixotic, Magnificent, Has Beens

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.121, 谷月社

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