Might Quotes - Page 124

[Barack] Obama was reaching a point [with Syria bombing] where he might not have been able to carry it off.He was losing support internally, and was compelled to send the vote to Congress, and it looked as if he was going to be defeated, which would have been a very serious blow to his presidency, to his authority.

There isn't much doubt that like other animal societies, those of Homo sapiens involved plenty of cooperation, which might have been considerably enhanced, one would suppose, by the emergence of the remarkable instrument of language.

You might recall, perhaps, that we were probably the only commentators to rely on the most knowledgeable source, State Department intelligence.

One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop.

In the pre-capitalist world, everyone had a place. It might not have been a very nice place, even maybe a horrible place, but at least they had some place in the spectrum of the society and they had some kind of a right to live in the place. Now that's inconsistent with capitalism, which denies the right to live. You have only the right to remain on the labour market.

Syncretism can be disturbing to people. They have often been taught, "You have to have solid faith and must be sure of your religion," and so on. They fear that they might be threatened by these new developments and mergings. So you get a backlash against it.

I think if you want to get to know me, you should come and see a show. A person might get to see more sides of me.

Showtunes might be able to come back into pop music, which is something we haven't seen since the 50s and 60s. Everything is related to everything else because we're in such a niche industry.

Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not reveal itself at first.

That said, it was pretty awkward and a weird thing to shoot. Some women had a sense of humour about it and we'd laugh, but some were very serious and suspicious... like I might be doing something bad, or maybe they were just uncomfortable.

I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.

I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles.

Let me shake it off I just signed a couple deals I might break you off

Oh that's what he left? Let his mama pick it up. Might back up on it, VROOM VROOM wit the pick-up truck.

Austrailia, Sydney Might run up in Disney Out in LA with Lindsay.

I have about 40 cars, of which 25 to 30 are what you might call serious.

I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic.

I might kiss you. I might be bad at it. That's not possible.

Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet might use to illuminate life's mysteries. But there is nothing.

It's probably not going to lead to anything. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. If everyone who thought they might fail didn't even try, where would we be today?

Because being comfortable meant she might lower her guard, and she could not let that happen.

In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.

Beauty might prevail in the very short term, but in the medium and longer terms, cultural norms - primarily those values and norms influenced by family - were more important.

But a risk-free life wasn't much of a life, really, and if she was going to change, she might as well start now.

It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private.