Might Quotes - Page 121

Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn.

How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear.

Men might be better if we better deemed of them.

I am suspicious of what people might want from me. Do they like me, or my money?

It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid... initially and my own stories.

There's no way of telling why you want to do things beforehand. Something just grabs you. It might not grab you six months later, and it might not have grabbed you six months before, but at that particular moment it grabs you, so you jump on it.

You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.

For a theory to be scientific it must be capable of being refuted by the evidence. Given that we have had three decades of rising temperature followed by a decade of stable and slightly falling temperatures worldwide, how many decades would you require before you are convinced that the theory on which you are committing £400bn of taxpayers' money might be slightly wrong?

And once again the government has failed to get the kind of cooperation from the relatives that might allow the case of this young boy to end in a civilized manner that is best for him.

We do have intellects and Plotinus controversially thought that even though we might not be aware of it, our souls are always connected to the intellect. They never fully descend as he would put it.

Just the way you might look at a painting and see the painting, and the painting is outside you, so this immaterial intellect would see the forms and behold them, as if they were standing before it. And Plotinus said that that can't be right because it falls prey to sceptical objections.

Why will I bury you? So that one day I might disturb your grave.

I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.

Georgie Porgie, he might buy the whole league, but he doesn't have enough money to buy fear to put in my heart.

Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?

I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted - if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.

It's better to live cherishing a dream than face the possibilty that it might all come to nothing.

The boy told himself that, on the way toward realizing his own destiny, he had learned all he needed to know, and had experienced everything he might have dreamed of.

My aim is to understand love. I know how alive I felt when I was in love, and I know that everything I have now, however interesting it might seem, doesn't really excited me.

If you say it was the "last" time, it might well turn out to be the last. What you meant was "the most recent time I was here".

It might be fun to have audience members wander up the ramps as well, so they can listen from different vantage points.

An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been able to get an Olympic medal.

My mother always said to me, 'Right makes might.' At last, I can believe her.

I have to do what I'm doing at the time. That's the most important thing. You might lose some people along the way, and you might gain other people on the way, that's just the way it is. But nevertheless, if you're driven by something, there is no argument about it; that's what you have to do.

I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.