May Quotes - Page 233

The systems of stereotypes may be the core of our personal tradition, the defenses of our position in society. They are an ordered more or less consistent picture of the world, to which our habits, our tastes, our capacities, our comforts and our hopes have adjusted themselves. They may not be a complete picture of the world, but they are a picture of a possible world to which we are adapted. In that world, people and things have their well-known places, and do certain expected things. We feel at home there. We fit in. We are members.

You thought you were found but you realize that you were lost, and someday you may discover that you're lost now.

We consider bibles and religions divine I do not say they are not divine. I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still. It is not they who give the life, it is you who give the life.

There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place.

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

May God be pleased to make it known to you, and fill you increasingly with His Spirit, so that through you it may be poured into the souls you guide, and your own soul may be more greatly sanctified!

Compassion in action may be the glorious possibility that could protect our crowded, polluted planet.

She tips her chin up and looks at me with that Abnegation stubbornness I know so well. She may have left them, but they are what’s making her strong.

Don't want to discuss it, I think it's time for a change You may get disgusted, some think that I'm strange In that case I'll go underground, get some heavy rest Never have to worry, about what is worst and what is best.

It may or may not sound pretentious. But I`ve turned down, consciously and specifically, many jobs I knew would have been a pretty surefire way to go about making a lot of money, being recognized and gaining power in the industry.

You know so little of war. Battles may be fought from the outside in, but wars are won from the inside out.

One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.

Very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be.

An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.

The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.

I think Canadians, they may be offended that I pointed out that they're stalking us. But at least we're paying attention.

In the time it takes American literary titan William H. Gass to write a novel, other artists have been born, completed their life's work and died. That may be an exaggeration, but only a slight one.

If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.

Men may or may not be better drivers than women, but they seem to die more often trying to prove that they are.

Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone.

They may be stupid, but they sure are fun.

I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision.

Living a good life may keep you out of jail, but it cannot keep you out of hell.

In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is called 'social justice' might more accurately be called anti-social justice, since what consistently gets ignored or dismissed are precisely the costs to society. Such a conception of justice seeks to correct, not only biased or discriminatory acts by individuals or by social institutions, but unmerited disadvantages in general, from whatever source they may arise.

Egalitarians create the most dangerous inequality of all - inequality of power. Allowing politicians to determine what all other human beings will be allowed to earn is one of the most reckless gambles imaginable. Like the income tax, it may start off being applied only to the rich but it will inevitably reach us all.