May Quotes - Page 165

Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions.

Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

I remember the stink of the liverwurst. How I was put on a platter and laid between the mayonnaise and the bacon. The rhythm of the refrigerator had been disturbed.

The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

it may be said that children are but newly-issued editions of old compositions, re-bound and corrected, with fresh introductions, modern print and headpieces, but the text is that of former editions handed down from generation to generation.

I've learned... That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.

If you are well educated, and especially if you are a health professional, you will have to unlearn much of what you've been taught and start afresh with the rather disruptive thought that natural healing may actually work.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.

Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark.

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.

Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.

When you have made a catalogue of your friend's faults it is only fair to supply him with a duplicate, so that he may know yours.

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

The fundamentalists may have created a personalized Jesus we don't even recognize, but the liberals' Jesus, too, is an individualized Jesus who serves the empire - a Jesus painfully divorced from his ministry of justice.

People may not be impressed by our theological grasp, but they may be impressed by our expressions of practical godliness.

The position of the Americans is quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one.

I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.

But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is that minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.

We must have Christ in our hearts, that He may shine forth from our lives.

Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of science

And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.