Might Quotes

The problem with the race to the bottom is that you might win

Instead of focusing on arguing with people who say no, it might be easier to get near the people who like to say yes.

And I know that God made the heart the most fragile and resilient of all organs, that a lifetime of joy and pain might be encased in one mortal chamber.

It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

Swords were given to men, that none might be Slaves, but such as know not how to use them.

It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction.

Sorrow, on wing through the world for ever, Here and there for awhile would borrow Rest, if rest might haply deliver Sorrow.

Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic innovation in such things as child development or cutting crime.

I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more - as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service.

He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

I could make Basic Instinct 16. If guys will keep thinking I'm hot, I might turn it into a TV series.

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.

I really feel the need to create an alternate world, a vision of what might be magical and beautiful and fantastic about being human.

[From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are.

I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.

I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'

I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.

Barack Obama's strategy is to get away from anything having to do with race as quickly as he can. His fear is that that might open a Pandora's Box.

[Stand-up] might be ballsy, but I'd rather not be an actor. Actors are tools.

As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways

And I flunked anger management the moment I put the counselor through a stone wall. You might want to keep that in mind. [Thorn]

The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.

Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself; and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense.

I might be an ambassador.

Money cannot buy you happiness, and happiness cannot buy you money. That might be a wise crack, but I doubt it.

One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.

There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.

One day I noticed that I could go on working my art motif no matter what the weather might be. I no longer needed the sun, for I took my light everywhere with me.

The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.

People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.

Would to God that we might spend a single day really well!

You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.

For all the things I'm losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.

To the Everlasting Father, And the Son who made us free And the Spirit, God proceeding From them Each eternally, Be salvation, honour, blessing, Might and endless majesty.

I’m not afraid of anything that might happen to me on this earth, because I know no matter what, nothing can take my spirit from me.

The science of style as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style.

Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us heavenward; or Magician and Wizard to lead us hellward.

Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.

Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.

Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.

Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.

Jump blind and you might find yourself on the rim of a raging volcano, or smack in the middle of a battlefield during a savage war, or on a swiftly tilting ice floe in a tempest-tossed sea.

I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.

When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, you’re opening up doors and possibilities you might not be seeing in the moment.

We were made for good works (cf. Phil. 1:11) to the glory and praise of our Maker, and to imitate God as far as might be.

A lot of people would say, to be truthful is to tell all, every dalliance, every crisis. They might be right on paper, but in practice, it's not a great way to go.