Might Quotes - page 4

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong. (Terry Pratchett)
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. View quote
Stendhal
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. View quote
Billy Wilder
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes. View quote
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. View quote
William Shakespeare
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments. (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. View quote
Winston Churchill
Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. View quote
Arthur Miller
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. View quote
Charles Dudley Warner
What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice. View quote
Ronald Reagan
I have about 40 cars, of which 25 to 30 are what you might call serious. View quote
Nick Mason
Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever. View quote
Anthony Doerr
But I am sure also that from a political point of view, and from a social point of view the federal link, without infringing the sovereignty of any of the nations which might take part in such as association, could be beneficial. View quote
Aristide Briand
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow. View quote
Bela Lugosi
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. View quote
Earl Nightingale
After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me. (John Woolman)
I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It grew without a name until 1975, when I coined a new word to denote it, fractal geometry, from the Latin word for irregular and broken up, fractus. Today you might say that, until fractal geometry became organized, my life had followed a fractal orbit. View quote
Benoît Mandelbrot
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - if it makes you sick, you've got a long way to go, baby. View quote
Germaine Greer
Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane. View quote
Germaine Greer