Might Quotes

Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.

You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.

A gene might be able to assist replicas of itself that are sitting in other bodies. If so, this would appear as individual altruism but it would be brought about by gene selfishness.

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.

Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog

If Heaven were not clear it might rend. If Earth were not firm it might crumble.

Even if my strength should fail, my daring will win me praise: in might enterprises even the will to succeed is enough.

Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.

I don't think you can run around and crash and bang quite the way that I might have done in the past.

You might be a redneck if Exxon and Conoco have offered you royalties for your hair.

You might be a redneck if your classes at school were cancelled because the path to the restroom was flooded.

Don't ever turn down pleasure because you were afraid of what other people might say.

You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.

For me, staying in place might mean staying with my own thoughts, even if the body keeps traveling. I might be experiencing new things, but I'm also here, with myself.

You might not think it now, but if you're one of God's children, you're going to figure it out by the end of your life God is good.

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.

Clearly, I am not an anarchist. Philosophically, I might be, but I think in practical terms.

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.

Avisitor from Mars contemplating a man in a frock coat and top hat and a woman in a crinoline might well have supposed that they belonged to different species.

I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing.

I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.

In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was.

Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.

I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.

I think drama school really teaches you how to annunciate; you're conscious that people might not understand you if you speak too fast and too Welsh.

It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.

Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked.

What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.

Penguins are an indicator of the health of our watery planet, and if they are unable to survive, we had better take notice or we might find our own survival threatened.

If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.

We take men for what they are worth - and that is why we hate the government of man by man, and that we work with all our might - perhaps not strong enough - to put an end to it.

Depending on which day, and how I am feeling on that day, I have a different favorite song on the album. One day it might be 'Karma', and other days it is 'Stay For A While'

Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally repulsed by him and therefore, repulsed by the sport.

In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you.

As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.

Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me and the funeral was on a rainy day.

A true outlaw finds the balance between the passion in his heart and the reason in his mind. The outcome is the balance of might and right.

You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.

In opening our hearts, we hope this might promote greater awareness of this condition. Perhaps it will encourage a clearer understanding of the individuals and families who are affected by it.

I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there.

And to know how to demand - with all one's might - what one wants

Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail on, sail on, sail on.

Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

There aint any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.

And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control.