Might Quotes - Page 138

There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite.

I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.

Might does not make right, but right demands that those who hold to it should defend it with all their might.

The day before is what we bring to the day we're actually living through, life is a matter of carrying along all those days-before just as someone might carry stones, and when we can no longer cope with the load, the work is done, the last day is the only one that is not the day before another day.

I never thought I might become famous. It takes getting used to.

What people might find surprising: I taught my wife to change diapers when we had our first.

It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death.

I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.

There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.

It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.

...because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't stop himself from hoping it might be that person, even though he knew he shouldn't hope.

I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others -- The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.

We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes. Being attentive to the needs of others might not be the point of life, but it is the work of life. It can be messy, and painful, and almost impossibly difficult. But it is not something we give. It is what we get in exchange for having to die.

Basher shook his head. "No, we climbed in through a ground-floor guest bedroom all ninja-like. Snuck up the back stairs." "Then you might be the cavalry," said Tom, "but I'm Santa Claus. Let's go downstairs and open some presents.

Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last weeks winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong.

It started when I woke up, all I wanted to do is jump out of the window. I didn't want to eat anymore, because I was afraid that I might poison myself somehow.

I had no sense of any reputation that What a Carve Up! might acquire - at the time I didnt even have a publisher, so my main worry was whether it was even going to see the light of day or not.

And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.

Comedy is the only form of entertainment where the audience doesn't know what to expect. In an evening, you might get ten comics doing ten different things. That's not what happens when you go to hear music. There isn't a classical performance followed by a hoedown followed by rap.

And try as I might, I am having difficulty giving a f**k.

The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.

There is a very small chance that you might be really brilliant and really talented.

When we hear music that we love that changes the world for us, we might as well at least aspire to something like that and aim high. You're probably not going to get beyond your dreams. So you might as well make them big.