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Might Quotes - Page 127

Her beauty might fascinate men, but it was difficult to charm them when she stood mute. . . .

Michelle Moran (2008). “The Heretic Queen: A Novel”, p.110, Broadway Books

We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.

Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.630, Delphi Classics

Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.

Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

Without the potatoe, the balance of European power might never have tilted north

Michael Pollan (2001). “The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-eye View of the World”, Random House Trade Paperbacks

I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created.

Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.

Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.129, Simon and Schuster