Might Quotes - page 6

If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other. (John von Neumann)
The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design. View quote
Herbert Simon
If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet. View quote
Keith Richards
We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges. View quote
Ryan Reynolds
Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets. View quote
Marvin Minsky
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long. View quote
Joseph Heller
I know that big people don't like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like, How's school? Are you a good boy? Did you say your prayers? but if you ask them did they say their prayers you might be hit on the head. View quote
Frank McCourt
Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a spirit of responsibility. I condemn all manifest provocation that might dangerously fan passions. View quote
Jacques Chirac
Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might be the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of matériel and supplies? View quote
Chester W. Nimitz
...I finally understood what true love really meant. ...that love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be. (Nicholas Sparks)
It might seem as the hardest thing to do, but you have to forget the guy who forgot about you. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual. View quote
Cyril Connolly
I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in. View quote
Ken Kesey
It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost. (Richard Bach)
The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long. View quote
Herodotus
I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things. View quote
Dorothy Parker
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one. View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized. View quote
Marianne Moore