May Quotes - Page 69

Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.

No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

Steve Lawson is a brilliant musician. I've known about him and listened to him for many years. He may not be one of the most famous bassists but he is definitely one of the most talented.

I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.

Leave your thoughtlessness behind you then you may begin to understand. Clear the emptiness around you with the waving of your hand.

One's single greatest strength may be uncovering the hidden talents of another person.

A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.

And because the condition of Man, (as hath been declared in the precedent Chapter) is a condition of Warre of every one against everyone; in which case every one is governed by his own Reason; and there is nothing he can make use of, that may not be a help unto him, in preserving his life against his enemyes; It followeth, that in such a condition, every man has a Right to every thing; even to one anothers body.

Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.

Forgive others so that you may be forgiven.

May I meet each moment fully and meet it as a friend.

My men have sometimes failed to take a position, but to defend one, never!

Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.

I shouldn't be saying this, high treason really, but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting a brilliance that may not really be there.

By being with yourself, the 'I am', by watching yourself in your daily life with alert interest, with the intention to understand rather than judge, in full acceptance of whatever may emerge, because it is there, you encourage the deep to come to the surface, and enrich your life and consciousness with its captive energies.

Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.

The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses have the characteristic of repeatedly bringing the patient back into the situation of his accident, a situation from which he wakes up in another fright.

Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.

You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?

It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.

Personal space refers to an area with invisible boundaries surrounding a person's body into which intruders may not come.

Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.

Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road rage.