Might Quotes - Page 139

For me, it feels like my ideas are more specific to random thoughts or single ideas I might have, as opposed to being influenced by a general perception of absurdity.

Examples ... which might be multiplied ad libitum, show how difficult it often is for an experimenter to interpret his results without the aid of mathematics.

Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it might be good for.

We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.

It might be plausibly maintained, that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides were in the right in what they affirmed, though wrong in what they denied.

Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?

Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.

Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.

Roecker sure is a romantic about certain things, like art and music, though you might not know it from watching Live Freaky! Die Freaky!, his claymation musical retelling of the Helter Skelter Charlie Manson saga.

If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.

There are various ways you might define the common good, but that would be one way you could do it.

An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception.

One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called 'spiritual mindlessness.'

I think it might honestly be time for the Sunshine State to officially change its motto to the Worst State.

Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb, sinning, I would spread my cloak and hide him, that he might not be seen of any.

Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray to terrorism cannot be ignored.

If you are curious, you won't be satisfied with the "tyranny of custom." People stuck in that rut might say "why?" and the first thing an exploratory person would say is "why not?"

Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.

If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.

I'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now.

If you can sort out why you feel the way you do then you might be in better shape to meet your maker.

If somebody gives me a joint, I might smoke it, but I don't go after it.

It might have been really cool back in the '50s when it was less populated but I don't know.

No sooner does a divine gift reveal itself in youth or maid than its market value becomes the decisive consideration, and the poor young creatures are offered for sale, as we might sell angels who had strayed among us.

Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.