Might Quotes - Page 146

Call me an extremist but killing a few hundred million people seems like the sort of method that might have unintended consequences.

Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the Court, be exercised as a means of carrying into effect some specified Power?

On any other hypothesis, the delegation of judicial power would annul the authority delegating it; and the concurrence of this department with the others in usurped powers, might subvert forever, and beyond the possible reach of any rightful remedy, the very Constitution which all were instituted to preserve.

These considerations and many others that might be mentioned prove, and experience confirms it, that artisans and manufacturers will commonly be disposed to bestow their votes on merchants.

Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had.

It is much more difficult to get implemented politically what might be desirable economically. Even if you came out with an economic argument in favor of equalization - and I think there are arguments on both sides - I would still come down in favour of some sort of a scheme on strict economic grounds.

I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Williams, I re-read Thomas, I re-read the people whom I cam to love when I was at what you might call a formative stage.

As far as artists and musicians, they don't retire. They might tour less.

To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden.

Writing's not precious to me. It's not a thing that requires specific environment. You know, it's my job. Just like anybody with a job, you have to do your job when you don't feel like it, regardless of how good or bad the conditions are, regardless of how good or bad you might feel on any particular day.

You get up in the morning because you might meet a woman. And if you stay at home by yourself, alone, you will not meet a woman.

Most of us cannot afford to store a year's supply of luxury items, but find it more practical to store staples that might keep us from starving in case of emergency.

I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly.

Can’t take a chance that one day, in one spot, somewhere, an exit might appear. We can’t give up. Ever.

Your demons are always with you, Skale answered. His voice seemed even raspier than the day before. Don't you understand that by now? Always with you, impossible to escape. But you never can guess how they might manifest themselves.

Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong

If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign.

Always, always ask for what you want. Because the Universe might surprise you — and give it to you.

As a writer I have persisted in my uncertainty, alternating between novels which could charitably be considered literature and world reporting which by another stretch of objective standards might be called history.

Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear.

A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.

Another thing I like to say to my students is this: "How many Corinthians read Paul's letters?" The answer is none. They couldn't have cared less! There aren't even any Corinthians left, but Paul's letters persist. Paul was not a professional writer. He was called to something, and he sent his letters. That's a good way to look at it. That you might be making something that nobody cares about, but you have to do it. It's not that people should care, but that you should care.

Dad always told me that if you're going to work on something, it might as well be something you're proud of.

Sometimes you might be a fan of bands but you don't know where they're from.

There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love with which they regarded Nature.