Might Quotes - page 5

If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make? (Germaine Greer)

Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.

John Updike

Venerable men you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.

Daniel Webster

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

Yoko Ono

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

William Henry Harrison

One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.

Robert A. Heinlein

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.

James Thurber

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

William Hazlitt

Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.

Bob Black

There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.

Umberto Eco

We mustn't complain too much of being comedians -- it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed -- that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men. (Graham Greene)

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

Henry David Thoreau

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

George Eliot

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

George Eliot

I mean it's weird because the thing that I love about acting is the fact that I can help people feel things, know themselves or feel less alone. It's my form of expression, in the same way that someone might paint a picture or sing a song in that you're hoping that it moves somebody outside of their own way of thinking.

Naomi Watts

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

W. Somerset Maugham

Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.

Thomas Malthus

A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

Thomas Carlyle

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.

Richard Burton

God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might. (Cicero)

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.

Karel Čapek

On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.

Alexander Pope

You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?

Gore Vidal

Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell It was a risk I had to takeand took.

Robert Frost

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