May Quotes - Page 115

Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.

Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.

In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better.

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

Living in the present moment means living according to truth and principle (but not according to hard rigid dogma) flexibly applied in the particular way required by the immediate situation in which you are. Such a way of living leaves you free, not ruled tyrannically by imposed regulations which may not at all suit the particular case.

I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.

I will not be on this planet. I may come back in another form, and you know, I'll come back as a white man.

If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star.

An injury may prove a blessing.

A kiss may ruin a human life

Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger Across a crowded room.

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.

He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day.

Some primal termite knocked on wood. And tasted it, and found it good. And that is why your Cousin May Fell through the parlor floor today.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what'

It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.

I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs.

Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.

Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together.

The rules may seem obvious but when you think about them they're not. For somebody who has my job they're not as obvious as one would think.

Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down.

If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today.

Those who seek liberation for themselves alone cannot become fully enlightened. Though it may be said that one who is not already liberated cannot liberate others, the very process of forgetting oneself to help others is in itself liberating