May Quotes - Page 86

I don't know what the future may hold for me-or for any of us. But I want you to know that I am a man who likes having critics who are not enemies.

You may have married her, but she is mine. Do you think I shall let you take her? She may be ten times your wife, but, by God, you shall never have her.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset.

Further, democratic negotiators, or foreign negotiation specialists accepted to assist in the negotiations, may in a single stroke provide the dictators with the domestic and international legitimacy that they had been previously denied because of their seizure of the state, human rights violations, and brutalities. Without that desperately needed legitimacy, the dictators cannot continue to rule indefinitely.

As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.

Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.

It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.

The word "truth" itself ceases to have its old meaning. It describes no longer something to be found, with the individual conscience as the sole arbiter of whether in any particular instance the evidence (or the standing of those proclaiming it) warrants a belief; it becomes something to be laid down by authority, something which has to believed in the interest of unity of the organized effort and which may have to be altered as the exigencies of this organized effort require it.

We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!

Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain permanently hidden from him. One of the ways in which this hiddenness can express itself is through faith in a personal god.

The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of literature as we know it.

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

Taste may change, but inclination never.

Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.

It may be the case that [post-Holocaust] the authentic Jewish agnostic and the authentic Jewish believer are closer than at any previous time.

You may have lost your way more than a little bit, but I believe you can find your way back. That's the trick. Finding your way back.

The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

We must see ourselves as co-manifestors -- partners in manifestation -- all engaged in the primal act of unfoldment and emergence. Each act of manifestation may be directed toward a specific outcome, but it also contributes to the greater manifestation of the wholeness, love, compassion, and creativity of the primal source from which we all come.

The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you may have.

A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events that occur there. It is an active participant in those occurrences. Indeed, by virtue of its underlying and enveloping presence, the place may even be felt to be the source, the primary power that expresses itself through the various events that unfold there.

If you have worries, there is no better way to eliminate them than by walking them off. Just take them out for a walk. They may take wings and fly away!

He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning.

Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. .