Might Quotes

If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.

People make mistakes - they say things they shouldn't have or didn't necessarily mean. But I strongly believe in consequences. If there are none, someone might feel like they've gotten away with something, or that what they said couldn't have been that bad.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.

I haven't stopped writing which is good. I'm scared to stop completely otherwise it might lead to stagnancy.

Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.

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.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is.

The tabloids are like animals, with their own behavioural patterns. There's no point in complaining about them, any more than complaining that lions might eat you.

The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.

No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.

Some people might say my coming out after just winning the MVP award is heroic, and I understand that.

When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.

I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.

I had a very bad time with acid. I did that classic thing of looking in the mirror by mistake and seeing the devil. But I took it several times, because you always think that next time you might have the wonderful time that everyone else is having.

If I hadn't done this I might have ended up digging the roads.

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).

I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.

In a private room he showed me the first specimens of gold, that is he was not certain if it was gold or not, but he thought it might be; immediately I made the proof and found that it was gold.

The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.