Might Quotes
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The shame that comes to us as we see ourselves praised when we are unworthy of it often gives us the occasion to accomplish things that we might never have achieved without such undeserved praise.
Madeleine de Souvre
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We both with Alixandra Kolesky MacKenzie got into ceramics, you might say, by the back door. Looking back on it, I think this was a very good thing.
Warren MacKenzie
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They have to worry about finishing ahead of me. I have to just finish ahead of them. At this point of the season, you don't think what might happen or keep track of the points; you just go for it, and that is what we are planning right now.
Helio Castroneves
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Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.
Curtis Hanson
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It takes the wool from your eyes about how the world works, to show you that nothing's necessarily fair, and that you might have a hard life.
Cary Fukunaga
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It was unfortunate for other women who might come after Margaret Thatcher that the first woman to become prime minister was a male impersonator.
Hilary Mantel
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There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
Thomas More
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If you are running anyway, you might as well be chasing your dreams.
J. B. Bernstein
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And while there is life there is always the chance that something might happen.
Antal Szerb
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It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger.
Oliver Goldsmith
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When I watch a film, I watch only as an audience and only later I might analyse it.
Nandita Das
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People will say "You must miss playing to a thousand people." But I don't. I might miss playing. That's what I would miss, but I don't miss it, because I am playing.
Ian MacKaye
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I like the variety of characters that you can play in films, rather than playing the same role for 10 years as you might on a sitcom.
Mo Collins
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Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake.... During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast.
William Rathje
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If we are going to make a mark (key 21), it might as well be a meaningful one.
John Tukey
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As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.
Seth Godin
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Once you do it, you have to keep it going. You have to understand, he (Stewart) is not the one who started that. When he's in the mood to do it, he might do it. I have fun with it, and obviously it would be a thrill to climb this fence here and celebrate with the fans.
Helio Castroneves
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Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.
Michael Zaslow
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Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours.
Spalding Gray
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When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts ... Who knows what use they’ll make of you? Maybe you’ll help them to persuade people to buy things they don’t need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them.
Michael Ende
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Never give up, no, never give up If you're looking for something easy You might as well give it up.
Cat Power
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There was a very slight chance she might actually kill him that way, and if she did, she’d be brought up on charges. Unless, of course, she could prove harmful intent. She could see it now. See, Your Honor, he was going to f*ck me silly, make me like it.
Nalini Singh
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And if that is the Foremast, what do you think that sail might be called, Mr. Wheeler?" "The Foresail?" "Very good, Mr. Wheeler, and the next one up would be called..." ..."The Next Sail, Sir?" "Alas, no, Mr. Wheeler.
L.A. Meyer
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You always feel bad when you see in the newspaper or on television that someone's suffered a tragedy. You might make a donation, but too often we're so wrapped up in our own situations we don't do everything we could to help out. This has certainly changed the way I'll look at these things in the future.
John Whiting