Might Quotes - Page 103

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.

and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it

We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.

It was all I could do to not knock him down right there in front of Asher and climb on him. If I stunned him with a frying pan first, he might not struggle too much.

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.

. . . She was obsessed with clothes and status, how she never gave a thought to being responsible for her own actions, or even what she might do for anyone else-making her the ultimate example of all that was wrong and misguided about young women today.

I think the worst part is that when you know you dream another person's dream, you can never truly feel at peace. Never truly trust yourself. If you carry around somebody else's nightmare, who knows what else your insides might hide or when it might come out?

One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.

It's okay to be successful and it's also okay to be happy with your success even though it might not be easy.

Unless we dream the best dreams of which we are capable, the future will be poorer than it might be.

You should do everything as if it's the last time you might ever do it. Because, you know, it may be.

Try as we might to postpone them, days of reckoning inevitably arrive.

If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.'

Almost nothing works the first time it's attempted. Just because what you're doing does not seem to be working, doesn't mean it won't work. It just means that it might not work the way you're doing it.

The latest computer modeling I've seen indicates that at mid-century, there might be 150 million people classified as "environmental refugees."

The basic problem with the new species of global institutions is that they have not yet become aware of themselves as living. Once they do, they can become a place for the presencing of the whole as it might be, not just as it has been.

God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.

The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.

You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.

It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it.

If Facebook gets your entire social graph, you don't necessarily want to share everything with your entire social graph. You might wanna parse that social graph. So there's a company called PASS that is a private social network that I personally use for my friends and my family.

After the miners' rally, when I saw how emotional everyone got when I sang, I thought I might get somewhere with singing

Some nights you might go through an entire performance and not feel a thing, and the audience may have a much better time, 'cause if you're enjoying yourself on stage too much, they're having a terrible time because they can't hear you. And if you're a woman your mascara's running.

I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said... but did not.