May Quotes - Page 27

• If something happens once, it may never happen again. If it happens twice it most likely will keep happening.

  Paulo Coelho

  Yoga, Happens, Happenings

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• We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is not over- only the present conflict has ceased. There will be no peace as long as we react to violence with violence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Yoga, Winning

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• Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey - had resemblance's that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light - an image the normal eye captures only by squinting.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Love, Wall, Flower

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• Gardeners work with an ever-receding ideal of perfection; no sooner is something growing well than they see how to place it better or give it a better neighbor. To other's eyes, all may look as well as could be expected, but a good gardener's eye sees more to be improved.

  Robin Lane Fox

  Work, Eye, Giving

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• Thus we cannot escape the fact that the world we know is constructed in order to see itself. This is indeed amazing. Not so much in view of what it sees, although this may appear fantastic enough, but in respect of the fact that it can see at all. But in order to do so, evidently it must first cut itself up into a least one state which sees, and at least one other state which is seen.

  George Spencer-Brown

  Cutting, Views, Order

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• If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first; name later.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Names, Vision

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• One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible.

  Louis L'Amour

  Eye, Vision, Firsts

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “Bendigo Shafter”, p.281, Bantam

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• The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Educational, Exercise, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• The universe may be timeless, but if you imagine breaking it into pieces, some of the pieces can serve as clocks for the others. Time emerges from timelessness. We perceive time because we are, by our very nature, one of those pieces.

  Craig Callender

  Time, Pieces, Imagine

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• We live today in a world in which nobody believes choices should have consequences. But may I tell you the great secret that our culture seeks to deny? You cannot escape the consequences of your choices. Time runs in only one direction.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Running, Time, Believe

  Stephen L. Carter (2002). “The Emperor of Ocean Park”, Knopf

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• A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it

  Donald M. Fraser

  Anniversary, Marriage, Believe

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• No, I don't think a 68-year-old copywriter . . . can write with the kids. That he's as creative. That he's as fresh. But he may be a better surgeon. His ad may not be quite as fresh and glowing as the Madison Ave. fraternity would like to see it be, and yet he might write an ad that will produce five times the sales. And that's the name of the game, isn't it?

  Rosser Reeves

  Business, Writing, Kids

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• Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically.

  Leo Bogart

  Business, Advertising, Advertisements

  LEO BOGART (1967). “STRATEGY IN ADVERTISING”

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• We do things much the same way as we did 50, 60 or even 70 years ago. The answers may not be wrong, but we haven't experimented to see whether they are or not.

  Martin Sorrell

  Business, Years, Answers

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• We may pretend we are basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

  Terry Hands

  Business, Mistake, People

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• As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.

  Adam Michnik

  Freedom, Dark, Democracy

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• "Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events. They call upon it to explain the problems of their own time, to give to those problems a philosophical context, a continuum in which they may be reduced to proportion and perhaps made intelligible."

  Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

  Believe, Philosophical, History

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• Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.

  Rudolf Flesch

  Change, Learning, Mean

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• Sweetheart, when you walk my way,
  Be it dark or be it day;
  Dreary winter, fairy May,
  I shall know and greet you.
  For each day of grief or grace
  Brings you nearer my embrace;
  Love hath fashioned your dear face,
  I shall know you when I meet you.

  Frank Lebby Stanton

  Life, Grief, Dark

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• You may have holes in your shoes, but don't let the people out front know it. Shine the tops.

  Earl Hines

  Music, Shoes, People

  Stanley Dance, Earl Hines (1983). “The World of Earl Hines”

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• The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.

  Robert E. Ornstein

  Motivational, Selfishness, Evolution

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• A respect for authority is the basis for most medical education. Students may become so used to memorising that they become prey to the illusion that the reason for learning to parrot lectures and textbooks is that they are the 'truth'.

  Petr Skrabanek

  Truth, Textbooks, Lectures

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• Therefore, philosophy does not give sense in mind happiness. It keeps in mind the only truth. However, it is very possible that the truth may be painful, may be distressing, may be destructive of happiness or makes it impossible. Religion, unlike philosophy, is under the category of the useful one. It promises happiness and says what it is necessary to do and what it is necessary to be to deserve or to obtain it. Consequently, illusion is more important than truth if it gets happiness.

  Marcel Conche

  Truth, Philosophy, Giving

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• Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.

  James Hastings

  Fear, Heaven, Thread

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