Might Quotes - page 8

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff. (Clare Boothe Luce)
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" View quote
John Greenleaf Whittier
In this book, I try to understand the challenge presented by the prospect of superintelligence, and how we might best respond. This is quite possibly the most important and most daunting challenge humanity has ever faced. And-whether we succeed or fail-it is probably the last challenge we will ever face. View quote
Nick Bostrom
Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Apollo at Delphi, through the oracular utterance of his priestess, pronounced Socrates the wisest of men. Of him it is related that he said with sagacity and great learning that the human breast should have been furnished with open windows, so that men might not keep their feelings concealed, but have them open to the view. Oh that nature, following his idea, had constructed them thus unfolded and obvious to the view. View quote
Vitruvius
There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat. View quote
Ann Landers
Slow but sure moves the might of the gods. View quote
Euripides
Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world. View quote
Linus Pauling
One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires. View quote
Robert Collier
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all. View quote
Peter McWilliams
Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion. (Jean-Luc Godard)
Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be. View quote
John Wooden
Death is terrible, but still more terrible is the feeling that you might live for ever and never die. View quote
Anton Chekhov
A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering. View quote
Albert Kesselring
You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person. View quote
Hillary Clinton
All that time is lost which might be better employed. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man. View quote
William Shakespeare
It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as invaders. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Capitalism might be defined, if we wish to be scientific, as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit within a price structure. View quote
Carroll Quigley
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed. (Federico Fellini)
I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song This I pray at your liturgy After so many tormented days, So that the stormcloud over darkened Russia Might become a cloud of glorious rays. View quote
Anna Akhmatova
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. View quote
Plato