L S May Quotes

Such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe.

The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.

Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?

Energy is more attractive than beauty in a man.

But please hug and kiss me, everyone, and don't mind my dress, I want a great many crumples of this sort put into it today.

Woman work a great many miracles.

For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.

Nothing seemed impossible in the beginning.

...and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.

I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.

…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants.

it was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it.

Some stories are so familiar its like going home.

I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.

Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.

A holiday isn't a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.

My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.

where I wholly love I wholly trust.

Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.

Is that all? The mountain in labor has brought forth a mouse.

As I've said previously as home secretary, dealing with immigration isn't just a single issue and a single measure and a single step that you take. You've got to keep working at that over time.

Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.

In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake.

I'm going to let my friends in the other parties fight over the turf at the cutting edge of the status quo.

Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.

Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware of the fact.

instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.

By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death.

So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.

...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.

Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.

life is always bringing unexpected gifts.

Dear me, if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!

I'd put a lot of work into playing guitar and was thinking I was pretty damn good. But Hendrix came along and destroyed everyone.

I've always lived in that guitar world. I have noticed kids being more into the real essence of guitar music now.

I was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything.

The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.

... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.

I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.

My children hate me being such a big star. It's very hard for them to have a father who is always in the public eye.

Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs.

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly

The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.

Girls are taught to seem, to appear - not to be and do.

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.

Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem with perspective.

A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.

No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.