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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
The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day. -- Rachel Holmes
Eleanor [Marx] was involved in the 1889 Paris congress resolution that established May Day as an annual demonstration of the international solidarity of labour in the demand for a legal eight-hour day. -- Rachel Holmes
People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning. -- Noam Chomsky
In the U.S., ironically, people work longer hours in the U.S. than they do in Europe or in any other industrialized country. They seem utterly oblivious to May Day, don't really know what it is - our own history. -- Eric Drooker
I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea. -- Rabih Alameddine
Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting. -- Charles Dudley Warner
For the May Day is the great day, Sung along the old straight track. And those who ancient lines did ley Will heed this song that calls them back... Pass the cup, and pass the Lady, And pass the plate to all who hunger, Pass the wit of ancient wisdom, Pass the cup of crimson wonder. -- Jethro Tull
It was on the first day of Beltaine, that is called now May Day, the Tuatha de Danaan came, and it was to the north-west of Connacht they landed. But the Firbolgs, the Men of the Bag, that were in Ireland before them, and that had come from the South, saw nothing but a mist, and it lying on the hills. -- Lady Gregory
One day you may just do that! -- Stephen Richards
May you live every day of your life. -- Jonathan Swift
A day may sink or save a realm. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
What man can imagine he may one day achieve. -- Nancy Hale
If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow. -- Horace
Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Happiness may have but one night, as glory but one day. -- Alfred de Musset
He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day... -- Oliver Goldsmith
An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day. -- Diane Sawyer
May all beings learn how to nourish themselves with joy each day. -- Nhat Hanh
May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise. -- Rumi
The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines. -- Indira Gandhi
One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding. -- Malcolm X
Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales. -- George Herbert
May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day. -- B. B. King
May your sacred star guide you every day of the New Year. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news. -- Ethel Waters
Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day. -- Franz Liszt
Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become â??better organized. -- Lydia Davis
One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth! -- Gloria Steinem
Opportunity may knock only once but it passes by your door every day. -- Frank K. Sonnenberg
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Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day. -- Alex Berenson
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day -- Alice Morse Earle
Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day. -- William Shakespeare
Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy. -- Virgil
We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come. -- Publilius Syrus
God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him. -- JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
Don't burn bridges, because you may have to walk over it one day. -- Heather Romiti
He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow. -- Tryon Edwards
Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!. -- William Shakespeare
With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands. -- Ezra Pound
Many suffer so that some day all Irish people may know justice and peace.. -- Wolfe Tone
Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day. -- William Shakespeare
Ask yourself this question every day: "How may I best serve the most people?" -- Robin Sharma
Live, laugh, love, every day to it's fullest, for who knows, tomorrow, may not be. -- Shah Rukh Khan
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Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day. -- Rick Warren
The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution. -- Emile Zola
Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene. -- Paul Gauguin
Let the light be called Day so that men may grow corn or take busses. -- Anne Sexton
May you find love, joy and hope at Christmas and every day of your life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
What is right has to win the day over what we may see as rights. -- Ravi Zacharias
Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old. -- George Berkeley
For Age and Want save while you may; No morning Sun lasts a whole day. -- Benjamin Franklin
It may be years until the day My dreams will match up with my pay. -- Feist
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century. -- Baron de Montesquieu
One day robots may babysit our kids, a job that has always required a human touch. -- David Pogue
One day you too may experience what I have experienced. So right away go and practise. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hopefully one day Wars will only be fought in movies. And may the best producer win! -- Stanley Victor Paskavich
Our actions- and inaction- touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring." -- N.D. Wilson
Lord Jesus, I pray that this day I may take up my cross and follow you. -- John Stott
I may be imperfect today, but every day I strive to become just a little better. -- Ken Poirot
He that hath light within their own breast, may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day. -- John Milton
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Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may; The morrow's life too late is; live to-day. -- Robert Herrick
The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man. -- Susan B. Anthony
... the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow. -- Mary Augusta Ward
What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter. -- Jane Austen
Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
Teach us...... that we may feel the importance of every day, of every hour, as it passes. -- Jane Austen
It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation. -- Hosea Ballou
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. -- Thomas Paine
Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray. -- Abraham Cowley
Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom. -- Samuel Rutherford
Fool! You may hate me...But I...I haven't stopped thinking of you for a single day. -- Rumiko Takahashi
May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past." -- P.B. Kerr
Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both. -- Phillips Brooks
May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past. -- P.B. Kerr
Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. -- Richard Dawkins
Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you. -- Horace
Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares. -- Mahatma Gandhi
But then again, those who argue against squatting and deadlifting on the same day may just be pussies. -- Mark Rippetoe
The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment. -- Djuna Barnes
Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think. -- Randy Pausch
May the sun come, it's a new day; In the pure land of fantasy; That our darkness enlightened -- Miguel Torga
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. -- Robert Breault
May we know You more clearly, love You more dearly, and follow You more nearly, day by day. -- Richard of Chichester
We who burrow in filth every day may be forgiven perhaps the one sin that ends all sins. -- Vladimir Nabokov
If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are. -- Robert Frost
For many, living a Christlike life every day may be even more difficult than laying down one's life. -- James E. Faust
One day I may be meeting you and hearing how you've changed your life by saying, "Farewell to Fat". -- Richard Simmons
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day. -- Walter Scott
We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today. -- Felix Frankfurter
If thou may not continually gather thyself together, do it sometime at least once a day, morning or evening. -- Thomas a Kempis
If things continue like this, the history of our age may one day be written under a caliphate's supervision . -- David Selbourne
The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods. -- Malcolm X
If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh. -- Herman Melville
One day I may be meeting you and hearing how you've changed your life by saying, 'Farewell to Fat'. -- Richard Simmons
May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world. -- Ray Bradbury
May our prayers today, and every day, be from our hearts and with the focus of our whole being. -- Billy Graham
Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Let all thy joys be as the month of May,And all thy days be as a marriage day. -- Francis Quarles
Computers may out think us one day, but as long as people got feelings we'll be better than they are. -- Elvis Presley
May every day be a new beginning, and every dawn bring us closer to that shining city upon a hill. -- Ronald Reagan
May the World Day of Consecrated Life be a timely occasion to rediscover the centrality of Jesus in our lives. -- Pope Francis
May my tears run just as far, that my love might never know that one day I cried for him. -- Paulo Coelho
Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The dreamers of the day are dangerous... for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. -- T. E. Lawrence
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters. -- Neil Gaiman
If you work hard all day and all night, something may come of it. You never know, it just might. -- S.A. Tawks
Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it's there, the next day it may not be. -- Dalai Lama
Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good. -- Hannah More
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. -- Robert Frost
Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along. -- Robert A. Heinlein

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