Might Quotes - Page 119

Babbitt as a book was planless; its end arrived apparently because its author had come to the end of the writing-pad, or rather, one might suspect from its length, to the end of all writing-pads then on the market.

If you don't exert yourself, or if your exertions don't amount to much of anything, then you might as well not have bothered to have shown up for your existence at all.

Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and empirical knowledge and their evaluative systems so as both to locate themselves and their projects in some larger imaginative structure that makes sense to them. ... Furthermore, many modern agents would like it to be the case that the form of orientation which their life has is, if not true, at least compatible with the best available knowledge.

Sometimes when you're making a film and something happens during a scene that you've just thought of, it can be missed if the wrong lens is on or if you're shooting in the wrong direction but this [performance capture] doesn't miss a thing. So, you might do something that's genius - very rarely, admittedly - but it doesn't miss it.

There can be no truer faith than the one you might have in yourself.

Rectify is un-busy. It might soothe you, if not distract you, from all you got going on.

Better close your window tight or I might come in for a bite, I'm a sleep walker.

Because you’re such a good salesman, and if you go work for a company, they’re going to use you as a salesman. If you’re going to be a salesman, you might as well be selling something worthwhile, like education

There are some good things and some fantastic ones in Auden's early attitude; if the reader calls it a muddle I shall acquiesce, with the remark that the later position might be considered a more rarefied muddle. But poets rather specialize in muddles and I have no doubt which of the muddles was better for Auden's poetry: one was fertile and usable, the other decidedly is not. Auden sometimes seems to be saying with Henry Clay, "I had rather be right than poetry"; but I am not sure, then, that he is either.

The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.

Great men exist that there might be greater men.

Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.

A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.

Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency.

Voldemort? That might be real.

We will stop 99 per cent of the attacks. But one per cent of attacks might get through and that is what I am saying.

I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.

Hang on, Pa, don't reach for yer shotgun just yet," I said, grinning over the protective streak I found funny, when there wasn't actually anything to shelterme from. "We were just circlin' the wagons, not having an orgy." My dad suddenly looked like he might be sick. "Please don't ever say that word again." "Wagons?

Careful, pot," Tod said. "Someone might notice your resemblance to the kettle.

"He's lying, Kay," Nash said, fists clenched at his sides. "Hellions can't lie, but we all know reapers can." "Careful, pot," Tod said. "Someone might notice your resemblance to the kettle."

I`m not sure, but [Russia] might be happy to see this guy [Dan Fried] exiting stage left.

The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.

Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.

Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative.

It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.