May Quotes - Page 241

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay.

You may envy every one, but no one envies you.

I may be running out of options, but running out isn't an option.

A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.

A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.

A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.

Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity.

A strategic plan based on the over-all situation of both belligerents is ... more stable, but it too is applicable only in a given strategic stage and has to be changed when the war moves towards a new stage. ... [Conversely, tactical plans may] ... have to be changed several times a day.

Ethically, what one generation tolerates the next may treat as normal.

We want to bring enterprise back to blighted urban areas. People there have been told nothing is ever going to change. The policy makers may feel the same way.

When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.

At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.

May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.

No nation has the right to bring about a revolution, even though such a change may be most urgently needed, if the price is the blood of one single innocent individual.

I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.

Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?

Flippancy may be a lance tilted in the face of fear.

My body loves my in spite of how I may treat it. My body communicates with me, and I now listen to its messages. I am willing to GET the message.

We may be surrounded by some greater reality, to which we are oblivious. And even if we could somehow perceive it in some entirely new way, it is extremely doubtful we would be able to comprehend what we perceived.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.

Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one may not inquire about.

Violent measures are always dangerous, but, when necessary, may then be looked on as wise. They have, however, the advantage of never being matter of indifference; and, when well concerted, must be decisive.

Never write down your speeches beforehand; if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater.

Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.