Might Quotes

A person who is tired of London is not necessarily tired of life; it might be that he just can’t find a parking place.

It might be said that a great unstated reason for travel is to find places that exemplify where one has been happiest. Looking for idealised versions of home-indeed, looking for the perfect memory.

I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.

My mother always said to me, 'Right makes might.' At last, I can believe her.

It gave me a sharp kind of sadness to think that no matter how much I loved him and tried to put him back together again, he might stay broken forever.

An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been able to get an Olympic medal.

It might be fun to have audience members wander up the ramps as well, so they can listen from different vantage points.

My aim is to understand love. I know how alive I felt when I was in love, and I know that everything I have now, however interesting it might seem, doesn't really excited me.

Everyday was another day spent waiting. Every night was another night when she might meet someone who would recognize her true worth.

Never make a fuss-it might attract the attention of an enemy tribe.

Love is only a small thing, enough for one person, and any suggestion that the heart might be larger than this is considered perverse.

The Warrior does not worry that, to others, his behavior might seem quite mad.

The boy told himself that, on the way toward realizing his own destiny, he had learned all he needed to know, and had experienced everything he might have dreamed of.

May my tears run just as far, that my love might never know that one day I cried for him.

If you say it was the "last" time, it might well turn out to be the last. What you meant was "the most recent time I was here".

An enemy always represents a weakness. This might be fear of physical pain, but it could also be a premature sense of victory or the desire to abandon the fight because it is no longer worthwhile.

It's better to live cherishing a dream than face the possibilty that it might all come to nothing.

Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?

Georgie Porgie, he might buy the whole league, but he doesn't have enough money to buy fear to put in my heart.

I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.

I just think that the way the industry is changing and the world is changing, it might make more sense in two years for bands to have a different band name every time.

I live in Vegas, and I see people by the side of the road with cardboard signs who seem like they might have tried that spending their way out of debt thing.

Why will I bury you? So that one day I might disturb your grave.

Oh, that the wise from their bright minds would kindle Such lamps within the dome of this dim world That the pale name of priest might shrink and dwindle Into the Hell from which it first was furled.

Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.

Perhaps success should not mean that you have nothing to say to anyone, no time for anybody, and not a moment left in your calendar for someone whom you might suddenly realize you love.

This condition of uncertainty and unrest in the Roman Empire might explain why at Plotinus' philosophy encourages us to sort of flee from the physical world and towards the world of ideas.

We do have intellects and Plotinus controversially thought that even though we might not be aware of it, our souls are always connected to the intellect. They never fully descend as he would put it.

Before the mind snaps, or the heart breaks, it gather itself like a clock about to strike. It might even be said one pulls himself together to disintegrate.

And once again the government has failed to get the kind of cooperation from the relatives that might allow the case of this young boy to end in a civilized manner that is best for him.

You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.

Whatever I think, whatever I try to do, life might just turn around and... and hitch up its pants and throw me a twenty-dollar bill.

It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid... initially and my own stories.

Given this president [Donald Trump] and his lack of military experience, I think it actually might be a good thing to have someone who understands the military very deeply to be counseling him.

We are an indebted family going out for an expensive meal to celebrate getting approved foe a new credit card. It might feel good (at the time), but we're still simply delaying the inevitable.

Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.

I am suspicious of what people might want from me. Do they like me, or my money?

If my music is political in a way, and it might be, it's in the way of generating a sensitivity in people, a deeper awareness of the world around them. That's my goal, at least.

Men might be better if we better deemed of them.

Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.

How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear.

One goal of ethical inquiry might be to uncover strategies available for use when values conflict or when rules are incomplete.

Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn.

For a pragmatist like me, the important issues concern the words we might deploy to achieve our purposes, rather than the language we actually use.

'Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.

For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.

Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might not have had in some way.

We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.

Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have.

The essay is a wonderful medium. I might mention that some writers who longed to be novelists were better as essayists: Sontag, Baldwin, Vidal, Mary McCarthy, Mailer.