May Quotes - Page 123

The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant.

The man who is praised by others is regarded as worthy though he may be really void of all merit. But the man who sings his own praises becomes disgraced though he should be Indra, the possessor of all excellencies.

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.

This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.

If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.

We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.

Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's a work process. Or just improvise. Something will come.

A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans.

Even if I did speak Irish, I’d always be considered an outsider here, wouldn’t I? I may learn the password but the language of the tribe will always elude me, won’t it? The private core will always be ...hermetic, won’t it?

We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.

Many researchers do feel that humankind may have to face another Great Cleansing, such as the Great Flood of world mythology. Again, numerous UFO contactees and abductees feel that it is their mission to alert their fellow humans that some kind of apocalypse will soon be visited upon Earth.

When I say that we have met the Martians and they are us, I am using colorful language to suggest that we may have been seeded in the process of panspermia.

you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for

Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations.

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

A book may be as great a thing as a battle.

We fear that evaluating our needs and then carefully choosing partners will reveal that there is no one for us to love. Most of us prefer to have a partner who is lacking than no partner at all. What becomes apparent is that we may be more interested in finding a partner than in knowing love.

Age is how you feel. If you take care of yourself, you'll be able to do the same things. You may not do it as often. But you can still do it.

The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own.

There may not be a Heaven, but there is a San Francisco.

Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.