May Quotes - Page 94

Archetypes resemble the beds of rivers: dried up because the water has deserted them, though it may return at any time. An archetype is something like an old watercourse along which the water of life flowed for a time, digging a deep channel for itself. The longer it flowed the deeper the channel, and the more likely it is that sooner or later the water will return.

Those who speak of blind obedience may appear to know many things, but they do not understand the doctrines of the gospel. There is an obedience that comes from a knowledge of the truth that transcends any external form of control. We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.

A writer should never install himself before a panorama, however grandiose it may be.

We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time.

Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved.

I'm just not a naturally cheery person. I'm naturally moody. I know that from people who spend a lot of time with me. People who spend a lot of time with me may not wish to spend a lot more time with me.

The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of Kings.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think.

Too close a view may interfere with one's grasp of an overall problem or concept.

God is a sure paymaster. He may not pay at the end of every week, or month, or year, but I charge you remember that He pays in the end.

I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star.

Literature may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

Doesn't matter how menial may be the job that you're doing today. If you have dreams, that will turn into something positive in the future.

I do not know what your destiny may be, but I do know this, that not one of you will find the happiness that each of you is seeking until you have first sought and found a way in which to unselfishly serve others.

The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will it still be made manifest by the full complement of documents, files, veneered desks and cabinets - which convey the strict and inverse relationship between productivity and paperwork.

The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't.

Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome may be defeat.

You may lose people you love. You may lose things you had.. but no matter what, never lose yourself.

You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.