Might Quotes - Page 116

The very utterness of the crash and ruin, the desperation of the case, might be its hope. On ruins one can begin to build. Anyhow, looking out from ruins one clearly sees; there are no obstructing walls.

The line is very delicate and fine between being what one might call sane or insane, well or unwell.

Even now I wonder what I might have accomplished if I'd studied harder

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.

Excel spreadsheets might as well be one of the most dangerous recent inventions.

The problems of philosophy and the systems designed to solve them are formulated in terms which tend to refer, not to the realm of actuality, but to the realms of possibility and necessity: to what might be and what must be, rather than to what is.

Ignorance might be bliss, but it's irresponsible and dangerous too.

We might remember ... not to fear death; it is the only way to be cleansed.

Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work.

If even a small portion of the praise that is bestowed on Michael Jackson now in death was given to him last year, in life, he might well still be with us.

Tony Blair has to consider very carefully to what extent he can leave Britain, the party and the nation guessing as to when exactly he might go.

Sometimes there was a serious article on a hot topic, and I especially remember one by a bishop headed "Is Nudity Salacious?" The bishop thought it need not be, if encountered in the proper spirit, but he gave a lot of enlightening examples of conditions under which it might be, in his word, "inflammatory." There wasn't much nudity in our neck of the woods, and I enjoyed that article tremendously.

Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.

Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.

If you give up on democracy, you might as well give up on everything.

I don't listen to anyone else. That's why I don't have a publicist or something like that. I can't stand it if someone's trying to tell me to do something which might be a mistake sometimes.

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

People can glum onto all sorts of things. And some might use this in that way instead of taking personal responsibility for their lives. But if you discover the addiction is not all your own, you can ask, "Do I want to drink or smoke on behalf of Uncle Fred? Or do I realize I need to get rid of Uncle Fred and live my own life."

Physics is now saying we might be living in one of an infinite number of parallel universes. We can learn practical and creative things to do with the information.

Also, many consumers consider a critic to be like God Almighty.

As a cartoonist I do what I find funny. As an editor I have a broader approach realizing that humor is inherently subjective and I don't want my preferences to rule out what others might like.

I've never had a day at work where I wasn't thrilled and grateful to be there, wherever that might be.

Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not.

The change began with John Stuart Mill and the Utopians . When Mill pointed out that economics had no ultimate solution to the problem of distribution , that society might do with the fruits of its toil as it saw fit, he introduced into the mechanical calculus of the market a conflicting calculus of moral judgment.

I'm probably, if I might, if I stray I might write, go into screenplay or do something in film. Something like that but I think I'm pretty much going to stick to what I'm good at.