May Quotes - Page 138

Victims may be defensive, submissive, over-accommodating to others, passive-aggressive in conflict, dependent on others for self-worth, overly sensitive, even manipulative. They're often angry, resentful, and envious, feeling unworthy or ashamed about their circumstances. Have you ever felt or acted this way?

Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion as brainwash). It is rather, among other things, a scriptorium of beleaguered witness, a record of collated information, both fragmentary and sometimes systematic, with which we may feel compelled to reckon as it somehow, across history, reckons with us, an inheritance, if you like, of difficult wisdom.

I may have invented Control-Alt-Delete, but Bill Gates made it famous.

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.

An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.

and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

Once an author finishes a poem, he becomes merely another reader. I may remember what I intended to put into a text, but what matters is what a reader actually finds there which is usually something both more and less than the poet planned.

It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.

If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until death, just let us indulge in a little stinging criticism - no matter how certain we are that it is justified.

We may be different races and religions but we are all part of the same human family

There is an ocean of Gods love available-there is plenty for everyone. May God grant you never to doubt that victorious love-whatever the circumstances.

Live your life; whatever that life may be.

By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal.

Men of principle are sure to be bold, but those who are bold may not always be men of principle.

To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error.

A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.

Picture what others wish to be, not what they may be now

The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

Tears may come and go, But there's one thing I know. All my life you're a friend of mine. You can depend on me. I'll be fine... 'Cause you're a friend of mine.

Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.

It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

I loved to always get naked. I was very free, so I thought, I may as well get paid.

The freedom I have as a U.S. citizen is unparalleled. Despite the fact people may not like American passports, having that passport affords me more freedoms than any other passport could.

Well, you may not know this, but there's things that gnaw at a man worse than dying.

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.