Might Quotes

If I had, say, a tall, amateur male lead living on the campus of a rural college (Six Years), the next book might feature a short, cop who lives in the heart of Manhattan (Missing You).

I shall never marry, Atticus." "Why?" "I might have children.

In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.

Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.

Whatever can't be expressed might as well not exist.

If we reverse the outer shell and the essence--in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell--our lives might be a whole lot easier to understand.

If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it’s like his nerves are a piece of rubber that has been stretched out. It’s hard to go back to the original shape.

Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.

I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.

Having an object that symbolizes freedom might make a person happier than actually getting the freedom it represents.

It is a lonely life sometimes, like throwing a stone into the deep darkness. It might hit something, but you can’t see it. The only thing you can do is to guess, and to believe.

When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might be Western; I don't draw a distinction between the two.

If we could measure the damage to corporations from gossip, it might be more than the GNP of the Third World!

You stand still, somebody might get close to you. I don't stand still much anymore.

Vulnerability is beautiful to me. There might be a need to fabricate your own beauty paradigms. I guess I never quite bought into any kind of 'standard'.

Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily.

I tend to take [ to Bridget Jones Diaries] something that nearly happened, or might have happened, and then exaggerate it to make it funny and to make it tie into the themes.

Men couldn't care less if your strands are perfectly styled and neat. In fact, he might like you more with some wildness or bedhead, since it shows you're carefree and relaxed.

It's very easy to just shout: 'Off with their heads!' Maybe in doing that you might lose something very valuable. I would like to see the monarchy continue, but in a more democratic fashion.

He had a defect, which to a comic might be fatal. He wasn't funny.

I think all artists secretly hope their kids might do something safer and straitlaced: maybe my daughter 'll be a banker.

You're 18 points down [in the polls]... You might as well do what's right.

From what might appear to you to be small choices, the Lord will lead you to the happiness you want. Through your choices He will be able to bless countless others.

Dr. Manton taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High-Churchman, that I might never hear him read nor read him more.

Just as sure as the days go by, Jesus will come to us, looking for fruit; and He will come in personal hunger, needing and longing for the fruit which we might have ready for Him.

In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd's dog, but is far from being the Good Shepherd.

I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.

Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.

A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which some day might lead to more "harmonious compositions."

I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage than if the related ones were brought together into separate essays.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'they' - you can never get around it.

In order that one industry might grow or come into existence, a hundred other industries would have to shrink.

All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground.

Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.

... since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate.

Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation.

For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate to the subtlety of nature.

A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am.

Christmas time, we can remember with deep thanksgiving the amazing Christmas gift of God Himself, when God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

Again and again the Church of Christ has been all but engulfed, as men might have deemed, in the billows; again and again the storm has been calmed by the Master, Who had seemed for awhile to sleep.

You might as well enjoy the day - you never know when and how painfully it could all end.

Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.

To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

No magic. I do believe you might have taken it all with you when you went away.

America is a rough room and you don't know what might come your way, so you have to be prepared for almost anything.