May Quotes - Page 111

Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with

One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.

Others fear what the morrow may bring. I am afraid of what happened yesterday.

Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction

The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.

Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.

I think personal power is having the availability to say, 'No' to something, whatever that may be.

As lines, so loves oblique, may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours, so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet.

Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.

I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to no ugliness, accept nothing of the world but the one I made myself. I wrote, lived, loved like Don Quixote, and on the day of my death I will say: ‘Excuse me, it was all a dream,’ and by that time I may have found one who will say: ‘Not at all, it was true, absolutely true.’

If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard.

It is a little-known fact about covert operations that you will spend a lot of time with people you can’t really trust. They may be traitors and liars. We call them assets or informants. But mostly, in those days, I called him Zach.

Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.

This may shock you, but the most important person in your life is you. You are meant to be 'full of yourself.

If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.

The world as we see it is only the world as we see it. Others may see it differently.

Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.

The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although to the more imaginative at least a slight dampness at the bottom of a carton, or an obscure code printed along a computer cable, may hint at processes of manufacture and transport nobler and more mysterious, more worthy of wonder and study, than the very goods themselves.

It will remain remarkable, in whatever way our future concepts may develop, that the very study of the external world led to the scientific conclusion that the content of the consciousness is the ultimate universal reality

If you would follow on to know the Lord, come at once to the open Bible expecting it to speak to you. Do not come with the notion that it is a thing which you may push around at your convenience. It is more than a thing, it is a voice, a word, the very Word of the living God.

May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.

What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself may at times intrinsically and necessarily be in conflict with being true to others.

Because I’ve had a taste and I’m not sharing. This isn’t just for fun. I may be slightly addicted.