May Quotes - Page 114

Have you considered that the Bible, like all religious doctrine, may be allegorical and symbolic, to direct us toward one holy entity of love, as opposed to a simplistic litiginous text to direct the behavior of human beings?

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

I am so close, I may look distant.

Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations.....may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be.

Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.

Love may be blind, but this I'll state - it's eagle-eyed compared to hate.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that's your body.

We cannot say this or that trouble shall not befall, yet we may, by help of the Spirit, say, nothing that doth befall shall make me do that which is unworthy of a Christian.

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

If I go for the alternative which is false, then obviously I shall be in error; if I take the other side, then it is by... chance that I arrive at the truth, and I shall still be at fault.... In this incorrect use of free will may be found the privation which constitutes the essence of error.

One may be nice on the outside but on the inside isnt pretty

We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,--a narrow belt.

In life you may be poor or rich, but death is the great equalizer. The greatest communism is in death. Howsoever you live, it makes no difference; death happens equally. In life, equality is impossible; in death, inequality is impossible. Become aware of it, contemplate it.

the realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful.

If you carry someone else's fears and live by someone else's values, you may find that you have lived their lives.

What valor cannot win, flattery may.

One dictionary defines denouement as "a final part in which everything is made clear and no questions or surprises remain." By that definition, it is exactly the wrong word to describe this chapter. This chapter will make nothing clear; it will raise many questions; and it may even contain a surprise or two. But I say we call it the denouement anyway because the words sounds so sophisticated and French.

The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway.

We can profit only by our own misfortunes and those of others. The former, though they may be the more beneficial, are also the more painful; let us turn, then, to the latter.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.

Do not taste food while you're cooking. You may lose your nerve to serve it.

The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.

My job, is to show folks there's a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help to save the planet.

More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark.