May Quotes - Page 67

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.

Certain other societies may respect the rule of force--we respect the rule of law.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

May I be at peace. May I awaken to the light of my own true nature. May I be healed and may I be the source of healing for others.

I may be a twin, but I am one of a kind.

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.

Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.

I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution. And if that is not the guide in expounding it, there may be no security.

American labor may now look to the future with confidence.

A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

You may have a barrelful of luck tomorrow. If so- fine. But don't expect it, and most of all, don't sit around waiting for it.

Regarding language as an apparatus of symbols for the conveyance of thought, we may say that, as in a mechanical apparatus, the more simple and the better arranged its parts, the greater will be the effect produced.

The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion.

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be put into the box to prove that perjury is simply a compulsion neurosis, like beating time with the foot at a concert or counting the lampposts along the highway.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.

Zen is not about eliminating thoughts but illuminating them.

If I have called Cubism a new order, it is without any revolutionary ideas or any reactionary ideas... One cannot escape from one's own epoch, however revolutionary one may be.

What's dead may never die.

I tell runners... that no matter how inexperienced a runner you may be, there is nothing wrong with being intense. You don't know what you might discover.